In brief
A #Bitcoin whale on Friday moved more than $8 billion in BTC.
The digital coins had not moved in 14 years.
Industry analysts were confused by the transactions but generally agreed that they likely came from an early miner.
A #Whale.Alert who had held onto a #Bitcoin fortune for 14 years on Friday started moving the enormous stash of 80,000 BTC—worth $8.6 billion at today's prices.
The coins started moving in batches of 10,000 $BTC , or about $1 billion in BTC, early morning New York time on Friday, data from Arkham Intelligence shows. By 11 a.m. Eastern Time, the $8.6 billion in crypto had been shifted to new addresses.
Eagle-eyed blockchain observers were quick to point out on X that the movements came from an entity that had received the coins back in 2011 as "coinbase" transactions—the first transaction in a block created by miners. When miners create new blocks on the #blockchain , they are rewarded with newly minted digital coins.
