As Data Parsers Catch A String Of 1,000 'Satoshi Era' Bitcoins From 2010 Spent Today, The 10-Year-Old Block Rewards Wake Up. 

Old Blocks Are Now Awakening

Another large string of decade-old sleeping bitcoin was transferred on December 27, at around 2 a.m. in the morning (EST). Spending the corresponding bitcoin cash block rewards as well, the miner then spent 20 block rewards that were originally mined in 2010. Using today’s exchange rates, the bitcoin moved is worth well over $27 million. 

Here is the update: another 2010 block reward was spent making it an aggregate total of 21 decade-old block rewards on December 27, 2020, at approximately 3: 10 p.m. (EST) at block height 663,241. Having been precisely 21 consecutive blocks, most strings of 2010 spent blocks this year. 

Decade-old bitcoin mining rewards have woken up from slumber as this year the price of bitcoin has increased a great deal in value and during the course of the year. Old coins that haven’t moved in over a decade are sometimes referred to as Satoshi-era coins, sleeping bitcoins, or zombie coins in the cryptocurrency space. That hasn’t moved in over a decade, estimates think that there are well over a million zombie coins.

We have here those onchain researchers thereby tweeting that 1.78 million bitcoins have never left those miner addresses from Glassnode just on December 18, 2020. 

The onchain researchers said at the time that this comes to be 9.5% of the circulating bitcoin supply. The researchers then added to it that their analysis now shows 98% of coins come to be mined more than 7 years ago as 94% more than 10 years ago, as also most of them could then be lost forever. 

Another string of at least 20 block rewards from 2010 was transferred, as then on December 27, 2020, it was reported on numerous strings of old school 2010 coins being spent. With the help from the onchain parser web portal Btcparser.com, again the team caught the action. 

More Of The Block Rewards Spent 

Stemming from coinbase rewards issued between August and October ten years ago, all of the block rewards from 2010 was spent on Sunday morning. Using today’s exchange rates, the rewards from 2010 include approximately 1000 BTC worth more than $27 million. 

The miner also spent the corresponding bitcoin cash as well in addition to the decade-old BTC spent on Sunday. Using Sunday’s exchange rates, the 1000 BCH is fetching over USD 354,000. As the BSV coinbase rewards currently remain in the address, the old school miner did not move the corresponding units of bitcoinsv. 

As the corresponding BSV has not been moved at all as this has been the case with most of the prior 2010 coinbase block reward strings of spends being caught in 2020. 

Seeing more than 1000 BTC spent every time in 2020, we caught a lot of old school Satoshi-era bitcoin spending. Finally being known as Black Thursday, it is one of the most interesting sleeping bitcoin awakenings when it was the day before March 12, 2020. 

Another large 21 block string was spent on October 11, 2020, following the string of coinbase rewards spent in mid-March. Another consecutive string of over 20- 2010 BTC block rewards on November 7, 2020, more decade-old coins were spent on October 14. As of now which did not move in over a decade, in the following day, on November 8, a Satoshi-era miner had then moved another sizable string of the BTC coinbase rewards. 

What Does Blockchair Say? 

Subsequently, the Blockchair’s privacy-o-meter has the 20-block string of BTC rewards coming from 2010 transferred today which has the lowest privacy score that is possible for one to get when spending bitcoins. Having a rare fingerprint, a co-spend and likely a sweep and the same address inputs was the 2010 coinbase rewards spending on Sunday. 

The coins were then moved into fractions after the original consolidation as that spend in particular sent all 1000 Bitcoin to this address here. As it was sent with a touch more discrepancy or no output of the same type as inputs, that particular spend scored a 90% privacy rating on Blockchair’s privacy-o-meter. 

Hence we find that as there is more to be considered when taking into account the Satoshi era coins, the miners are having more legitimate coins being mined. So, what we watch here is how they perform on the market. 

The Conclusion 

We invite you to watch the scenario keenly. We are thereby keeping fingers crossed waiting for what may be than bringing you more of the coins. the miners are of course coming forward with more Satoshi era coins. What then is the next attempt?