Someone Just Moved 50 Bitcoins, Prompting Speculations It’s Satoshi Nakamoto
50 bitcoins (BTC) (USD 477,500), minted in the first month of Bitcoin’s existence and untouched for more than 11 years were moved today, prompting a wave of speculations that Satoshi Nakamoto “has awakened.” However, multiple industry players denied that these coins were moved by Bitcoin’s creator.
Here is the transaction:
However, Jameson Lopp, CTO at crypto security specialist Casa, denied this is Satoshi, saying: “No. Y’all need to up your analysis game.”
@mikehogan_ It’s complicated, but in general there is a pattern of extraNonces belonging to an early miner. That mi… https://t.co/t3huKiMua4
Bitcoiner and partner at Castle Island Ventures, Nic Carter, also chimed in:
Here’s a visualization of the Patoshi pattern with the block that was just spent. The blocks believed to be Satoshi… https://t.co/dogyrfuAAc
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At pixel time (15:52 UTC), BTC trades at USD 9,584 and is down by 1% in a day, trimming its weekly gains to less than 5%.
The total number of spent outputs that were created more than 10 years ago:
Other reactions:
It’s the first time since August 2017 than someone spent coins from early 2009. https://t.co/l9Zc3xpZr2
50BTC from an ancient Whale # is more impactful than whole Bitmex going down
Relax guys. Much higher chance it is NOT Satoshi than it is. Although can’t be proven, this has happened a few time… https://t.co/5PORdusSKM
@MrHodl @crypt0e I know people who moved super old coins during the past 6 months to consolidate their ancient pre-… https://t.co/Z9ILivpraH
CSW is going to try to spin this as “he is moving coins” the list he produced for court contains the first 10k addr… https://t.co/9marDSOkKs
2009 coins moving most likely doesn’t mean much. Best guess is not satoshi coins based on pattern analysis (… https://t.co/yyFZHKO7if
Source: cryptonews.com
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