When the Bitcoin stash was first deposited, it had a value of $8,195 dollars.
Earlier today, the owner of a Bitcoin wallet that had been virtually inactive for nearly nine years suddenly brought it back to life by transferring all of its 616 bitcoins to a separate wallet.
It is estimated that the wallet received around 616.2004 Bitcoin on December 10, 2012. At the time, Bitcoin was valued $13.30, and the total value of the transaction was around $8,195. In today’s market, Bitcoin is worth $48,811 dollars, bringing the total value of the stockpile to a magnificent $29.4 million.
According to the blockchain explorer Blockchain.com, the Bitcoin moved today at 05:50 UTC (midnight). Because of 21 intermittent transactions of minuscule amounts that entered into the wallet over a 12-year period, the value of the pot looks to have increased by 0.00001 Bitcoin, resulting in a profit of 47 cents for the wallet owner as well.
It is possible that investors had low expectations for Bitcoin’s valuation a decade ago, when the wallet received its first 616 bitcoins, and that they treated the cryptocurrency as if it were small cash. At today’s pricing, those who held on to their Bitcoins were referred to as Bitcoin whales.
Earlier this year, a Bitcoin wallet containing $5 million in Bitcoin was brought back online after having been offline since June of 2010.
And, last year, a wallet containing Bitcoin that had been mined in February 2009—one month after the first Bitcoin block had been mined—cashed out to the tune of $500,000, prompting (unfounded) speculation that the transaction had something to do with Bitcoin’s enigmatic creator, the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakomoto, who is believed to be in hiding.
The huge wallet news from today does not lend itself to much conjecture. Nonetheless, it serves as a forceful reminder of the glories of investing: a gain of 358,655 percent in nine years is nothing short of remarkable.
