On-chain data shows a Bitcoin whale with a 4,000 BTC balance has woken up after a 14.3 years long slumber to spend 150 tokens.

Ancient Bitcoin Whale Has Broken A 14.3 Years Long Silence

According to data from cryptocurrency transaction tracker service Whale Alert , a dormant wallet with a massive amount of Bitcoin has just woken up. The address in question contained 4,000 BTC before its transaction on Friday.

Blockchain history shows this wallet collected the 4,000 BTC through mining rewards in 2011, implying the owner was an early miner. Back then, the block subsidy (the reward miners get for adding a new block to the chain) was worth 50 BTC, so it took the miner 80 blocks to assemble the stack.

Today, after four Halving events, the block subsidy has dropped to 3.125 BTC, so a min

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