The last time this wallet was used was a few months after mysterious Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto posted his farewell message to the Bitcoin community and disappeared. The profit shown by the awakened Bitcoin holder is tremendous.
Today, in October 2024, this Bitcoin stash is worth $7,525,999, which constitutes a mind-boggling growth of 5,972,920%.
This report about the dormant whale came on the day when HBO released its long-expected documentary titled “Money Electric: Bitcoin Mystery.” In it, director Cullen Hoback identified early Bitcoin developer Peter Todd as Satoshi Nakamoto.
Many in the Bitcoin community found that and other evidence presented in the documentary highly insufficient. Dogecoin cofounder Billy Markus said that Satoshi was definitely not Peter Todd, but rather, he believes it could have been Hal Finney with a team of developers. Finney passed away 10 years ago from ALS.
In a comment to Whale Alert’s post about the aforementioned whale, an X user jestingly wrote: “Is that you, Peter Todd?”
Todd himself has criticized Hoback for endangering Todd’s life with such an “irresponsible” documentary. He also tweeted to say: “The truth is pretty simple: there’s hundreds, even thousands of people who could have created Bitcoin.”
Finally, he stated: “We’re not going to find Satoshi.”
Many in the crypto community agree with Billy Markus, believing that Satoshi was Hal Finney or, according to recent data from the Polymarket platform, it could have been Len Sassaman, a cryptographer who committed suicide in early 2011, just a couple of months after Satoshi disappeared.
This article was originally published on U.Today
Source: Cryptocurrency - investing.com
