Dormant Bitcoin wallets with more than 105 BTC reactivated after 13 years. What’s behind this?
After more than a decade of dormancy, a Bitcoin BTC $96 611 24h volatility: 2.1% Market cap: $1.92 T Vol. 24h: $29.09 B address has come back to life. The Bitcoin wallet, which was created when crypto was not yet popular, was just activated based on data from Whale Alert earlier today.
The address holds 59 bitcoins, around $3.8 million. The recent activity coincides with the time BTC price spiked to $64,000. It is also noteworthy, as investors usually pay keen interest to how old accounts perceive Bitcoin.
The reason why this address was brought back to life after 13.1 years is still yet to be known; WhaleAlert could not also mention anything about the identity of the holder.
However, keeping 59 BTC for more than a decade has made the value very substantial in comparison to what it was 13 years ago. Perhaps the holder could be planning to cash out.
In another post, Whale Alert also noted that another ancient wallet address containing 50 BTC that had been dormant for 15 years was also activated.
💤 A dormant address containing 50 #BTC (3,184,108 USD) has just been activated after 15.7 years!https://t.co/jduMfplXag
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) September 20, 2024
This has also sparked thoughts about whether it could be related to the BTC price increase or not. However, a longer trend of multiple-decade-long wallets being activated in the past few weeks suggests there could be more.
Some of these include a wallet holding 43 BTC, which was worth around $2.5 million, seeing some activities after nearly 11 years. Similarly, another dormant wallet containing 108 BTC, which was over $6 million, was activated this same month after ten years.
In August, Whale Alert found just two wallets that had been inactive for over 13 years. One of these with $1.3 million worth of BTC was used again on August 30, while the other with $4.1 million in BTC was reactivated on August 25.
Market Implications: What Old Wallets Could Mean for Bitcoin’s Future
The timing of the wallet’s activation coinciding with a price surge to around $64,000 raises questions about market dynamics. Some of them may be securing some profit already. Sometimes, the movement could also be to provide liquidity to exchanges to support trading activities.
The recent trend of bringing old wallets back to life might show that early Bitcoin users are changing their strategies based on the changes in the dynamics within the crypto space.
The activities of early buyers also affect market sentiment. These people believed in Bitcoin when it was still worth nothing; therefore, the financial decisions they make with their holdings could affect how new users see BTC.
Having many early users sell, for example, could discourage some people from holding for a long time since those who are more experienced with the market are dropping their positions.
However, the dynamics of each situation can only be interpreted independently and only when there is detailed information surrounding the occurrences.
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