According to online data, in the early morning of today, an address purchased 27 bitcoins (approximately 1.17 million US dollars) from Binance and immediately transferred them all to the wallet address of Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, and the dormant wallet that has been inactive for many years.
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After years of disappearance, Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, has finally appeared with new clues. According to data from Blockchain.com, today (6th), an address starting with “bc1q9” purchased 27 bitcoins (equivalent to approximately 1.17 million US dollars at the current price of BTC 43,506.45) from Binance and sent them to Satoshi Nakamoto’s wallet address: “1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa”.
The address is marked as “Satoshi 1” and is the wallet used by Satoshi Nakamoto to receive the 50 BTC block reward from the genesis block on January 4, 2009. The wallet currently holds 99.676 bitcoins, worth approximately 4.347 million US dollars, and has never transferred any BTC so far.
Is Satoshi Nakamoto awake?
According to data from Bitinfochart, although there have been many addresses sending small amounts of bitcoins to Satoshi Nakamoto’s wallet over the years, this transaction is the largest in terms of quantity (the previous largest transaction was the 4 BTC transferred in 2013), which has sparked discussions in the cryptocurrency community.
Conor, the CEO of Coinbase, stated on X platform this morning:
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Satoshi Nakamoto appears on X and causes a sensation, the community exposes the fake Satoshi Nakamoto from Australia!
Regarding this transaction, the community is curious whether the mysterious person who transferred 27 bitcoins to Satoshi Nakamoto’s wallet is Satoshi Nakamoto himself or someone else. Some netizens speculate with wild imagination, “It is possible that BlackRock is the holder of Satoshi Nakamoto’s wallet and is playing tricks on everyone”; some netizens jokingly say, “This may be the IRS, and they are forcing Satoshi Nakamoto to report this transaction, and his real identity will be revealed.”
But some people also said that Binance may be the only one in the world who knows the true identity of “Satoshi Nakamoto”, but due to KYC, they may not be able to disclose relevant information.
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