Bitcoin’s mysterious creator Satoshi Nakamoto received nearly 26 bitcoins worth just over $1 million — more than 10 years after they disappeared.
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The wallet created by Satoshi Nakamoto, called the Genesis wallet which was the first wallet created on the Bitcoin network, received Bitcoin, sparking speculation that the Bitcoin creator had “woke up.”
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“Either Satoshi woke up, bought 27 bitcoins from Binance, and deposited them in his wallet, or someone just burned $1 million,” says Conor Grogan, director of bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. to publish To the X along with the Arkham Intelligence link explaining the transaction.
Grogan added that he thinks it may be “some kind of weird ETF marketing scheme,” referring to the closely watched race by Wall Street giants including the world’s largest asset manager BlackRock to bring in a bitcoin spot trading fund (ETF). ) is long overdue. to the market.
The latest transaction increased the value of the bitcoins in the Genesis wallet, which initially held 50 bitcoins created from the first bitcoin block and had not sent any bitcoins since Satoshi Nakamoto’s disappearance, to just under 100, worth about $4 million.
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The identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, who disappeared in late 2010 after publishing a Bitcoin whitepaper in 2008, has become the subject of intense debate as the price of Bitcoin has risen with the name being associated with numerous programmers, developers and so-called Cyberpunks over the years. .
If Satoshi Nakamoto is still alive – although it is not even known whether they are an individual or a group – they are believed to control more than 1 million Bitcoin, which is currently worth around $50 billion, which would place them among the 25 richest. person in the world, according to Forbes Estimates.
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