Dormant Bitcoin Holder Moves $4.77 Billion After 14 Years

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Dormant Bitcoin Holder Moves $4.77 Billion After 14 Years of Silence

Written by Aaron S.,

Editor-In-Chief

Last Updated: July 17, 2025

Key Takeaways

A dormant Bitcoin holder moved 40,192 BTC, worth around $4.77 billion, to a new wallet after 14 years of inactivity;
Previously, the holder sent 40,009 BTC, valued at around $4.7 billion, to Galaxy Digital, with 6,000 BTC reaching exchanges;
The original stash, bought for under $250,000 in April 2011, has now been fully transferred.

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Dormant Bitcoin Holder Moves $4.77 Billion After 14 Years of Silence

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Lookonchain reported in a July 17 post on X that a long‑dormant Bitcoin holder has moved 40,192 BTC BTC $93,027.03 from its original stash, worth about $4.77 billion, into a new wallet.

The analytics group noted the owner "may continue to sell", which raises the possibility that more of the coins could enter circulation soon.

This activity followed a transfer on July 15, when the same holder sent 40,009 BTC, valued at around $4.7 billion, to Galaxy Digital, according to blockchain data from Nansen.

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Galaxy then passed 6,000 BTC from that batch to Binance $8.41B and Bybit $2.69B , which suggests that at least part of the holdings might be sold on the open market.

Together, these two transactions have depleted the BTC holder’s original eight wallets, which had remained untouched for over 14 years.

Those wallets were first funded in Bitcoin’s early days. In April 2011, two of them each received 20,000 BTC when the price was just $0.78 per coin. A month later, six more wallets belonging to the same owner were credited with 60,009 BTC at roughly $3.37 each.

Lookonchain first flagged the renewed activity on July 4 by noting that this was one of the largest early Bitcoin holdings ever observed. At the time of the initial transactions more than a decade ago, the entire stash was worth less than $250,000.

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