“Satoshi Nakamoto does not use too old wallets and coins to avoid unwanted attention. He has been withdrawing anonymously obtained funds since 2010. This hypothesis was voiced on the website of the BTCparser project. “My theory is about the money, not the personality, and this leads me to believe that the mysterious mega whale of 2010 could be Satoshi himself or a member of [його] of Satoshi’s organization,” the author noted. According to the theory, after leaving the public space […]”, — write: businessua.com.ua
Satoshi Nakamoto does not use too old wallets and coins to avoid unwanted attention. He has been withdrawing anonymously obtained funds since 2010. Such a the hypothesis was announced on the website of the BTCparser project.
“My theory is about the money, not the personality, and this leads me to believe that the mysterious mega whale of 2010 could be Satoshi himself or a member of [його] of Satoshi’s organization,” the author noted.
According to the theory, after leaving the public space, the creator of the first cryptocurrency began mining bitcoins anonymously and accumulated a significant fortune. In 2010, he started many wallets, in each of which he left 50 BTC.
Since then, the programmer used exactly these funds, gradually “awakening” them from a long hibernation. He left the original 2009 wallets associated with Satoshi’s online persona alone for privacy reasons.
The author compiled a list of alleged Satoshi wallets based on a set of criteria:
- all the coins on them were mined shortly after the launch of Bitcoin, but after Satoshi’s disappearance;
- exactly 50 BTC were stored on all wallets, no other transactions were recorded until “awakening”;
- funds are combined in one P2SH format address (usually used as an escrow) and sent in equal parts to several bech32 addresses.
Since 2019, the researcher has been monitoring the selected addresses and found that 24,000 BTC had been withdrawn from the wallets of the alleged Satoshi who had “woke up” during that time.
The first probable transfer of coins to cash took place in November 2019. The last one — on November 15, 2024 — included an “awakening” of 2,000 BTC in 40 wallets with a total value of about $176 million.
According to the author, Coinbase has probably been aware of the identity of the “megakit” since 2010, since it was this site where the coins from the dormant addresses arrived.
We will remind you that programmer Peter Todd still denies the conclusions of the HBO documentary, where he was called the creator of Bitcoin.
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