It makes you wonder why such an old wallet would make a move now? There has been so many Bitcoin surges and this wallet user did not move any BTC. Did they remember their passwords after 14 years, or just never had the need to move them.
exabrial•3mo ago
My personal conspiracy theory is I think Bitcoin itself is a state-actor creation, for no other reason than mysterious behavior like this.
Honestly have no idea what my passwords were 14 years ago.
umbra07•3mo ago
I'm confused. This has a very simple, and likely explanation. Someone found their old password written down (or found an old hard drive). This is one of the most obvious and clear-cut applications of Occam's Razor - why jump to "state-actors"?
UltraSane•3mo ago
the assumption is that this wallet is so old it belongs to one of the creators of bitcoin.
monerozcash•3mo ago
2011 is not nearly old enough to suggest that
ENGNR•3mo ago
Nakamoto = central origin
Origin = CIA?
saulpw•3mo ago
Satoshi = intelligent
ENGNR•3mo ago
Omfg you're right. I was half joking before, but yeah that's... quite a coincidence
I think the most likely explanation is they tried Bitcoin a while ago and subsequently forgot about it. Then they discovered the wallet when checking an old backup or booting up an old PC from that era.
brador•3mo ago
Could be someone cashing out a paper wallet for retirement, or a wallet hasher hit RNG payday.
Terretta•3mo ago
HODLer stopped HODLing a bit is all, why is this curious in any way?
If one thinks of this thing in orders of magnitude, seeing support at 100,000 with 1,000,000 still a ways off is a fine checkpoint.
Thinking back, 10 and 100 weren't interesting, 10k could have been but for reasons felt unripe. By contrast, 100k feels on "this side" of a lot of things aligned, fewer things left unaligned, so, meh.
And now, more topically, the BTC vs. alt coin behavior on China tariff Friday suggested a new kind of institutional support that could give a long term HODLer comfort for selling into it once that dust settled.
dzarrini•3mo ago
exabrial•3mo ago
Honestly have no idea what my passwords were 14 years ago.
umbra07•3mo ago
UltraSane•3mo ago
monerozcash•3mo ago
ENGNR•3mo ago
Origin = CIA?
saulpw•3mo ago
ENGNR•3mo ago
JPLeRouzic•3mo ago
ronsor•3mo ago
brador•3mo ago
Terretta•3mo ago
If one thinks of this thing in orders of magnitude, seeing support at 100,000 with 1,000,000 still a ways off is a fine checkpoint.
Thinking back, 10 and 100 weren't interesting, 10k could have been but for reasons felt unripe. By contrast, 100k feels on "this side" of a lot of things aligned, fewer things left unaligned, so, meh.
And now, more topically, the BTC vs. alt coin behavior on China tariff Friday suggested a new kind of institutional support that could give a long term HODLer comfort for selling into it once that dust settled.