Another Ancient Bitcoin Whale Just Woke Up

Visualizing BTC whale (37UKd)’s three transfers to Kraken

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An ancient BTC whale has woken up, transferring a total of 10 BTC into Kraken over several transactions. The whale first received 2,000 BTC tokens 13 years ago in June 2011 to their wallet ( 1CEq1 ). These BTC tokens were block rewards mined in February and March 2009, just a month after the launch of Bitcoin. After transferring the 2,000 BTC through three other wallets, the BTC stack was split to two wallets, with 775.69 BTC sent to 1E3P1 and the remaining 1,225.28 BTC sent to 19StT .

The first transfer of 2,000 BTC to 1CEq1

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The 1,225.28 BTC sent to 19StT was repeatedly transferred again through various wallets until 2014, where it lay dormant until 3 weeks ago, where the address transferred 1 BTC to Kraken while sending the remaining balance to a new address ( 3F9Xb ).

4 days ago, the whale repeated this process, this time depositing 4 BTC into Kraken, while sending the rest to another new address ( 3BS5D ).

Finally, just yesterday, another 5 BTC was transferred to Kraken, with the final balance of 1,215 BTC ($76.8M) held in yet another new address ( 37UKd ).

3BS5D transfers 5 BTC to Kraken

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As for the 775.69 BTC that went to 1E3P1, they were progressively transferred across more than 10 different addresses, with the majority of them eventually deposited onto Bitstamp with the final transaction in 2017.

This transfer has caught the attention of many, especially with the recent movement of another early 2009 BTC miner, which recently moved 250 BTC ($15.8M) across five different addresses.