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<item><title>2,100 BTC from 2012 wake up</title><link>https://www.theblock.co/post/394488/from-13700-to-148-million-bitcoin-whale-moves-2100-btc-untouched-for-over-13-years</link><guid isPermaLink="false">famous-2026-03-20-2100</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Coins that arrived on 4 July 2012, when they were worth about $13,685, moved for the first time in more than 13 years. By then they were worth about $147.7 million, more than 10,000 times as much.</description></item>
<item><title>The 80,000 BTC giant of 2011</title><link>https://decrypt.co/331939/one-biggest-bitcoin-whales-history-cashed-out-9-billion</link><guid isPermaLink="false">famous-2025-07-04-80000</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>One of the largest early holders, with no outgoing transactions since 2011, moved about 80,000 BTC across several addresses in early July 2025. Weeks later the firm Galaxy confirmed it had sold more than 80,000 Satoshi-era bitcoin for a client, worth over $9 billion, one of the largest Bitcoin trades in history. Four 2011 addresses that we checked on the blockchain all sent their coins on the same day, 4 July 2025.</description></item>
<item><title>1,005 BTC mined in 2010</title><link>https://cointelegraph.com/news/satoshi-era-bitcoin-awakens-1005-btc-from-2010-on-the-move</link><guid isPermaLink="false">famous-2023-08-16-1005</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>An old address sent 1,005 BTC after 13 years of silence. When the coins arrived in 2010 they were worth about $328. When they moved, they were worth more than $29 million.</description></item>
<item><title>50 BTC from February 2009</title><link>https://www.theblock.co/news/ecosystems/2020-05-20-someone-just-moved-a-block-of-bitcoins-first-mined-in-february-2009-65939</link><guid isPermaLink="false">famous-2020-05-20-50</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2020 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Fifty coins mined in block 3,654, one month after Bitcoin began, moved for the first time in more than 11 years. Rumours that Satoshi had returned spread for hours, and the price briefly fell. Analysts later showed the miner was very unlikely to be Satoshi.</description></item>
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