{"id":20216,"date":"2022-03-07T10:48:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T09:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/?p=20216"},"modified":"2022-03-07T10:48:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T09:48:22","slug":"ancient-bitcoin-wallet-holding-407-btc-gets-reactivated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/ancient-bitcoin-wallet-holding-407-btc-gets-reactivated\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Bitcoin Wallet Holding 407 BTC Gets Reactivated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The ancient wallet has been dormant for about eight years.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Ancient Bitcoin wallet is active again since 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Ancient Bitcoin wallet containing 407 BTC ($15.5 million at press time) has been activated for the first time, since 2013, according to data given by Whale Alert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The coins were valued at $355,254 when they were first released, implying a gain of 4,266 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On major spot exchanges, bitcoin is now trading at around $38,000.
It's possible that the wallet awoke from its slumber after its owner eventually unlocked it. It's also not impossible that someone possessed such a strong conviction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several similar Bitcoin wallets<\/a> have resurfaced in recent months after years of inactivity. Addresses from 2011 tend to draw the most attention because they could be linked to none other than Satoshi Nakamoto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, in late February, a dormant Ethereum wallet\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/g>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/clipPath>\r\n <\/defs><\/svg><\/span><\/a> containing more than $5 million in ETH awoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ancient wallet has been dormant for about eight years. Ancient Bitcoin wallet containing 407 BTC ($15.5 million at press time) has been activated for the first time, since 2013, according to data given by Whale Alert. The coins were valued at $355,254 when they were first released, implying a gain of 4,266 percent. On […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":20230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[7916,7681,149],"class_list":["post-20216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitcoin-news","tag-ancient-bitcoin-wallet","tag-bitcoin-wallet","tag-btc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dmitry-demidko-gohvuwwn-he-unsplash_7-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}