An unknown cryptocurrency owner has made a record bitcoin transfer to Satoshi Nakamoto

An unknown user sent 26.9 BTC, worth $ 1.17 million, to the first wallet created on the Bitcoin network owned by Сатоші Накамото" href="https://noworries.news/biography/satoshi-nakamoto/" data-bio-id="4232">Satoshi Nakamoto. The majority of the funds came from a wallet marked as Binance on the Arkham Intelligence blockchain analytics platform.

The transaction fee was $ 100, which is much higher than the average cost of a transfer. «Either Satoshi woke up, bought 27 bitcoins on Binance and transferred them to his wallet or someone just burned a million dollars,» Coinbase CEO Conor Grogan tweeted.

Although theoretically, the creator of bitcoin can keep private keys to access this wallet, members of the crypto community believe that the funds sent will be lost forever. This is because the coins stored at the addresses associated with Nakamoto have not been moved since the mysterious developer disappeared in December 2010.

When Satoshi disappeared from the Internet, the genesis address contained only 50 bitcoins that had been mined during its creation. Later, additional funds began to flow to it, and by the end of 2023, the wallet’s balance had grown to 72 BTC. After the last transaction, it contains 99.67 coins worth $ 4.3 million. However, this is a drop in the bucket for Nakamoto. According to rumors, he controls up to 1.1 million BTC, which is currently valued at $ 47 billion.

In October, X users noticed the first post on @satoshi's page in 5 years. It seemed that Satoshi Nakamoto had returned to the public space and was ready to communicate with cryptophiles. After a while, it became known that the information was fake. The verified Satoshi Nakamoto account, which has more than 60,000 users, actually belongs to Craig Wright’s friend Andy Rowe. Wright has been impersonating the bitcoin developer for a long time, and this time he decided to resort to radical methods.