{"id":51412,"date":"2020-10-12T09:01:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T09:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=51412"},"modified":"2020-10-12T09:01:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T09:01:49","slug":"12m-in-satoshi-era-bitcoins-move-21-block-rewards-from-2010-spent-after-a-decade-of-slumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=51412","title":{"rendered":"$12M in \u2018Satoshi Era\u2019 Bitcoins Move: 21 Block Rewards from 2010 Spent After a Decade of Slumber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/fhfhfhhsjkskkkdkdkkkk-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"$12M in 'Sleeping Bitcoins' Move: 21 Block Rewards from 2010 Spent After a Decade of Slumber\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/fhfhfhhsjkskkkdkdkkkk-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/fhfhfhhsjkskkkdkdkkkk-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/fhfhfhhsjkskkkdkdkkkk-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/fhfhfhhsjkskkkdkdkkkk-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/fhfhfhhsjkskkkdkdkkkk-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/fhfhfhhsjkskkkdkdkkkk-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/fhfhfhhsjkskkkdkdkkkk-190x107.jpg 190w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/fhfhfhhsjkskkkdkdkkkk-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/fhfhfhhsjkskkkdkdkkkk-760x428.jpg 760w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/fhfhfhhsjkskkkdkdkkkk.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>On early Sunday morning around 1:38:02 a.m. (New York time), approximately 20 blocks with coinbase rewards from 2010 were spent in one block. 1,000 <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BTC<\/a> was then consolidated into a single address before moving again. The massive movement of the decade-old \u2018sleeping\u2019 bitcoins was caught by an onchain transaction parser and the coins were spent in block 652,204.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>** Update, approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/blockchair.com\/bitcoin\/address\/1PC9aZC4hNX2rmmrt7uHTfYAS3hRbph4UN\">9.99999943 BTC<\/a> or $114k worth of the 1,050 bitcoins from 2010 were sent to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fsf.org\/\">Free Software Foundation<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Miner Spends 21 Blocks from 2010 Following the Same Pattern That Happened the Day Before Black Thursday<\/h2>\n<p>Similar to the big move the day before March 12, the miner also transferred one last 2010 block mined at block height 652,229, to finish off the group of transactions making it a total of 21 consecutive 2010 block rewards moved.<\/p>\n<p>What we know so far is quite a bit of \u2018Satoshi era\u2019 or so-called \u2018sleeping\u2019 bitcoin rewards from 2010 moved during the early morning hours on Sunday morning. The action was caught by the application <a href=\"https:\/\/btcparser.com\/\">Btcparser.com,<\/a> as a bitcoin miner or miners decided to spend approximately 21 blocks from 2010 around 1:38 a.m. (ET).<\/p>\n<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-417304\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-417304 size-full\" title=\"$12M in 'Satoshi Era' Bitcoins Move: 21 Block Rewards from 2010 Spent After a Decade of Slumber\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/btcparser.jpg\" alt=\"$12M in 'Satoshi Era' Bitcoins Move: 21 Block Rewards from 2010 Spent After a Decade of Slumber\" width=\"1280\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/btcparser.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/btcparser-300x94.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/btcparser-1024x320.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/btcparser-768x240.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/btcparser-696x218.jpg 696w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/btcparser-1068x334.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The onchain parser Btcparser.com caught the action on Sunday morning on October 11, 2020. Btcparser\u2019s application shows three types of parsed data obtained from the Bitcoin (<a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BTC<\/a>) blockchain. The first parser combs the <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BTC<\/a> blockchain for activity related to 64,529 addresses stemming from 2009 through 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 2010 blocks spent in total on Sunday held 1,050 <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BTC<\/a> or $11.9 million at current <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BTC<\/a> exchange rates. News.Bitcoin.com was also <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/8-m-worth-sleeping-bitcoin-rewards-2010-black-thursday\/\">the first to catch the spending of 21 blocks from 2010,<\/a> that a miner or group of miners, transferred the day before March 12, 2020, otherwise known as \u2018Black Thursday.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The movement of \u2018sleeping\u2019 bitcoin rewards is not a regular occurrence, and especially coins that were mined ten years ago that have sat dormant ever since. The movement on October 11, 2020, is also quite odd because the person or people decided to move the exact same number of 2010 blocks as the March incident. In our <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/8-m-worth-sleeping-bitcoin-rewards-2010-black-thursday\/\">report<\/a> last week, it was noted that a <a href=\"https:\/\/blockchair.com\/bitcoin\/address\/1GjnPeUjpdTEYF2vcrkF63wZ98Q5meKTVQ\">2010 block reward<\/a>, coincidentally mined on March 11 of that year, was also transferred to end the session of movements.<\/p>\n<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-417308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-417308 size-full\" title=\"$12M in 'Satoshi Era' Bitcoins Move: 21 Block Rewards from 2010 Spent After a Decade of Slumber\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20blocks222.jpg\" alt=\"$12M in 'Satoshi Era' Bitcoins Move: 21 Block Rewards from 2010 Spent After a Decade of Slumber\" width=\"1280\" height=\"830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20blocks222.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20blocks222-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20blocks222-1024x664.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20blocks222-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20blocks222-696x451.jpg 696w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20blocks222-1068x693.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20blocks222-648x420.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While leveraging the application Btcparcer.com, our newsdesk discovered the first 20 blocks from 2010 spent in block 652,204. Another 2010 block was spent in block 652,229 making it a total of 21 decade-old coinbase rewards moved on October 11, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The exact same thing happened on Sunday morning, approximately 21 blocks, a ten-year span, and 1,050 coins were spent. The final block mined at block height 652,229 was <a href=\"https:\/\/explorer.bitcoin.com\/btc\/address\/16RVP9rA26A3pShNauhaY7CCVXSmW6q8VH\">mined on November 10, 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>$250,000 Worth of Bitcoin Cash Also Spent<\/h2>\n<p>Data also shows that in addition to the <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BTC<\/a> moved, the bitcoin cash (<a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BCH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BCH<\/a>) coinbase rewards were also transferred on Sunday morning. Approximately 1,000 <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BCH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BCH<\/a> from the same decade-old coinbase rewards ($251k) moved on October 11, but blockchain explorers show the corresponding bitcoinsv (<a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BSV<\/a>) tokens did not move. However, the final <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BTC<\/a> block spent on Sunday did not see the <a href=\"https:\/\/explorer.bitcoin.com\/bch\/address\/16RVP9rA26A3pShNauhaY7CCVXSmW6q8VH\">associated bitcoin cash<\/a> (<a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BCH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BCH<\/a>) spent.<\/p>\n<p>The weird transfer that saw 21 blocks from 2010 transferred back in March did see the corresponding bitcoinsv (<a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BSV<\/a>) spent alongside the corresponding <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BCH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BCH<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The transfer on Sunday is another record for the history books, and one can only speculate if it was a single person or a group of miners. It is also not known, whether or not, the entity plans to sell these coins on the open market.<\/p>\n<p>It seems more likely that the entity was the same person and could very well be the same miner that spent 2010 coins the day before the infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/edward-snowden-buying-bitcoin-market-bottom\/\">Black Thursday<\/a>. At the time of publication, <a href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\">bitcoin (BTC)<\/a> is doing well price-wise, hovering at $11,300 per coin. One thing that can be said for sure is that a lot of 2010 blocks have been spent in 2020 (54 total), including the rare 2009 block that was mined only one month after Satoshi kickstarted the network.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What do you think about the 21 blocks from 2010 being transferred on Sunday morning? Let us know what you think about this story in the comments section below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/12m-in-satoshi-era-bitcoins-move-21-block-rewards-from-2010-spent-after-a-decade-of-slumber\/\">$12M in \u2018Satoshi Era\u2019 Bitcoins Move: 21 Block Rewards from 2010 Spent After a Decade of Slumber<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Bitcoin News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On early Sunday morning around 1:38:02 a.m. (New York time), approximately 20 blocks with coinbase rewards from 2010 were spent in one block. 1,000 BTC was then consolidated into a single address before moving again. 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