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Ancient Bitcoin Whale Moves $9,600,000 in BTC at 181,204% Profit in Sudden Awakening

A leading blockchain data monitoring website says a long-dormant Bitcoin (BTC) address is suddenly awakening after nearly 11 years of inactivity.

According to BitInfoCharts, the address, which was last active in October 2012, recently transferred 412 Bitcoin valued at over $9.5 million at time of transfer.

BTC was priced at about $12.50 when the wallet was created on October 1, 2012. Worth $22,663 at time of writing, that BTC is currently in 181,204% profit.

The long-dormant address moved the Bitcoin to five different addresses – two addresses received approximately 177 BTC each, another two received 28.84 BTC each and one received 0.12 BTC. The combined fee for the five multimillion-dollar transactions amounted to $2.84.

Prior to the recent activity, the Bitcoin address had only recorded four transactions, all deposits, spanning from September 28th of 2012 to October 1st of the same year.

(By Mark Emem)

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