BTCparser project creator and blockchain technology researcher сообщил , that maybe the crypto whale from 2010 is famous Satoshi Nakamoto. In his opinion, after Satoshi Nakamoto retreated from the public eye and began secretly mining Bitcoins and amassing a significant fortune.
The expert noted that in 2010 Satoshi Nakamoto created multiple cryptocurrency wallets, and left 50 bitcoins in each of them. Since then, the famous programmer has used only a portion of the funds, releasing them from "hibernation", and he has not used the wallets from 2009 for privacy reasons.
According to the analyst, all wallets that the creator of Bitcoin may control have the same parameters. In particular, all the bitcoins in them were mined after the launch of the Bitcoin network, but after Nakamoto himself disappeared.
In addition, each crypto wallet contains only 50 bitcoins, and no transfers were made to them until activation. All funds were combined into one P2SH address and sent in equal shares to several bech32 addresses, the researcher noted.
According to him, the first cryptocurrency cashing out took place in November 2019, and the last one - on November 15, 2024. According to the analyst, the management of the American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase knows who the crypto whale from 2010 is, since bitcoins were transferred to this exchange from "sleeping" addresses.