Bitcoin untouched since 2012 moves 600 BTC, pushing decade-old tally to 1,971 BTC

A Bitcoin wallet that had not moved in over 14 years transferred 600 BTC on Tuesday, worth ~$51.9 million, Galaxy Research wrote on X.

The transfer brings a two-week total of reactivated decade-old coins to 1,971 BTC in four wallets.

Galaxy logs a $48.71 million realized profit on the transfer

Address 1K6vURxUuK6uUCeXxk31PCyDahAu1raunh first received its Bitcoin on July 14, 2012. Then it fell silent for 14.2 years until it signed a transaction in block 968116.

Galaxy logged a realized profit of $48.71 million on the move. The transfer was flagged Tuesday at 07:22 UTC. The haul was worth about $51.15 million at $85,252.28 a Bitcoin.

The network fee was 0.000057 BTC. Coins were transmitted to 1 new address, from inputs of 200, 200, 100, 50, 25, 15 and 10 BTC.

The wallet was funded when Bitcoin was trading in the single digits. BTC closed at $7.06 on July 10, 2012, which put 600 coins at ~$4,236.

That difference tracks Bitcoin’s appreciation, not the owner’s actual cost or profit. And a move between addresses doesn’t confirm a sale.

A July 2016 address supplied 1,260.78 BTC of the $161 million

Between September 6 and 22, four wallets that had not been touched in over a decade moved 1,971.03 BTC. The total is about $161 million.

Its estimated cost basis was near $652 a coin and it moved 1,260.78 BTC, or $100.63 million, from an address that had been quiescent since July 2016.

The gain implied on that wallet is ~12,122%. The 2012 coins are up over 1,000,000%.

One wallet held 10.25 BTC, now worth ~$883,000, untouched since March 2011 while another shifted 100 BTC worth $8.09 million, untouched since November 2011.

And a six-wallet stretch in mid-August moved ~$40 million. 202.84 BTC moved from August 29 to September 4.

Total in 2 weeks is ~0.01% of circulating supply of ~19.8 million coins.

On-chain analytics reveal that 3 of the 4 wallets have sender tags of “Noah Doe.” That includes the 100 BTC address tagged “Noah Doe #3113” that moved on September 19.

Tags pertain to a New York Supreme Court case filed March 11 and amended May 1. A pseudonymous plaintiff wants 39,069 dormant wallets declared abandoned property, and Judge Kathy J. King has kept the case stayed since early June.

The wave from August 29 to September 4 saw a 6.78 BTC transfer tagged to Coinbase.

Galaxy Digital’s Alex Thorn, in July, said that movement of dormant Bitcoin in the second quarter was at its lowest since Q3 2022, with 2026 on pace to reactivate less than half the coins that moved in 2025, Cryptopolitan reported.

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