Following the movement of approximately 1,200 BTC from 12 long-dormant bitcoin wallets from 2015 on Friday, the same entity transferred an additional 500 idle BTC valued at $47.4 million on Saturday.
2015 Crypto Whale Shifts 500 Bitcoin
A large whale has relocated a substantial trove of bitcoins acquired on Nov. 10, 2015, when BTC was priced at $374 each. Just yesterday, Bitcoin.com News reported that 12 wallets established on Nov. 10, 2015, transmitted 1,200 BTC, and today, seemingly guided by the same hand, another 500 BTC have changed course.
Notably, the 500 BTC moved on Saturday, discovered by btcparser.com, were obtained on the exact day as the earlier 1,200 BTC, with spending patterns across both days exhibiting striking consistency. The five P2PKH (pay-to-public-key-hash) addresses dispersed smaller portions to a series of distinct Bech32 P2WPKH (pay-to-witness-public-key-hash) addresses.
Although the BTC was initially moved from wallets first created on Nov. 10, 2015, these coins—and others associated with them—can be traced back to the P2PKH wallet “15X9r,” which at one point held 1,000 BTC. This particular wallet was originally funded with 1,000 coins on April 3, 2013, when BTC traded at $117 apiece.
Furthermore, regarding the specific transaction that loaded “15X9r” with 1,000 BTC, Arkham Intelligence details that the original transfer incorporated a Coinjoin technique, a privacy method designed to conceal the origin of funds by blending multiple inputs with multiple outputs.
The 1,200 BTC moved yesterday and the 500 BTC transferred on Saturday demonstrated a superior degree of privacy compared to most movements of long-idle BTC. A notable difference was the absence of outputs matching the type of inputs observed.
