#比特币巨鲸动向 Mid-Length

Speculations about the true identity of this ancient Bitcoin whale have sparked guesses within the community, with many differing opinions.

It could be an early miner, but the identity cannot be confirmed.

Coinbase executive Conor Grogan posted on the X platform that this ancient BTC whale appears to be a single miner from 2011. This miner consolidated 180 mining reward blocks and once held a wallet address containing 200,000 Bitcoins in 2011, which is currently valued at approximately $22 billion, making it one of the top five Bitcoin wallets in history.

CryptoQuant analyst Julio Moreno also believes this ancient whale is an early miner, as these transactions can be traced back to early block rewards and show that different block rewards were being consolidated. The transfer yesterday looks like a merging of several smaller UTXOs with a larger UTXO (10,000 BTC).

“The First Person in the Chinese Cryptocurrency Circle” Fried Cat

One of the speculated individuals in the Chinese community is the legendary figure in the cryptocurrency world known as “Fried Cat,” whose real name is Jiang Xinyu. He hails from Shaoyang, Hunan, and was a child prodigy, entering the Youth Class of the University of Science and Technology of China at the age of 15, later visiting Yale for research. He got involved with Bitcoin in 2011 and in 2012, posted as “friedcat” to initiate crowdfunding, successfully founding ASICMiner, becoming one of the earliest entrepreneurs developing Bitcoin-specific mining machines. His mining machines once accounted for 42% of the global hash rate, and the company enjoyed great success, being hailed as the “dominant force in mining.”

However, Fried Cat mysteriously disappeared at the end of 2014, with no public news or clues left since. His legendary experience and sudden disappearance have led many to suspect whether this batch of Bitcoins is related to him. However, feedback indicates that Fried Cat only started working on mining machines in 2012, which does not match the creation date of the activated wallet. Furthermore, the activity on his public address only began in 2013.