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2015 Whale Moves Again: 500 More Bitcoin Transferred After Yesterday’s 1,200 BTC Shift
Following Friday’s movement of approximately 1,200 BTC from 12 long-dormant wallets dating back to 2015, the same entity has now transferred an additional 500 BTC—valued at $47.4 million—on Saturday.
2015 Crypto Whale Relocates 500 Bitcoin
A major bitcoin whale has moved a significant stash of BTC originally acquired on November 10, 2015, when the price of bitcoin was just $374. As reported by Bitcoin.com News, 12 wallets created on that same date shifted 1,200 BTC yesterday. Today, seemingly orchestrated by the same party, another 500 BTC have been relocated.
Consistent Patterns in 2015 Whale Activity
The 500 BTC moved on Saturday—detected by btcparser.com—originated from the same day and show remarkably consistent spending patterns compared to Friday’s transactions. The five P2PKH (pay-to-public-key-hash) addresses dispersed the coins into multiple distinct Bech32 P2WPKH (pay-to-witness-public-key-hash) addresses.
Although the funds were initially moved from wallets established on November 10, 2015, they can be further traced back to the P2PKH address "15X9r," which at one time held 1,000 BTC. This address was originally funded on April 3, 2013, when bitcoin was trading around $117 per coin.
Additionally, Arkham Intelligence notes that the transaction funding "15X9r" involved the CoinJoin method, a privacy-enhancing technique that mixes multiple transaction inputs and outputs to obscure fund origins.
The recent 1,200 BTC and 500 BTC movements demonstrate a higher level of privacy than typical transfers of long-dormant bitcoins, notably lacking any outputs that match the original input types.