By Isaac • September 6, 2026 11:08 am •
A dozen Bitcoin mining rewards that had not moved since March 2010 suddenly came back to life this weekend, shifting a combined 600 BTC into new wallets after more than sixteen years.
At Bitcoin’s current price near $80,000, the transfers represent roughly $48 million. That headline number is striking.
The more important detail, however, is what the blockchain evidence does—and does not—show.
Cointelegraph reports that Whale Alert traced the coins to twelve separate block rewards mined in March 2010. Each block paid the original 50 BTC subsidy, long before four halvings reduced today’s reward to 3.125 BTC.
The timing makes these coins “Satoshi-era,” but it does not make them Satoshi Nakamoto’s coins. Whale Alert told the
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