Anonymous activates a "forgotten" crypto wallet, which has risen in price over 11 years from $ 4 to $ 3 million

The main feature of this crypto wallet is its value in monetary terms. When bitcoins

contained in it were purchased, they costless than $4 for 50 bitcoins. Today, 11 years later, the value of the funds in the wallet exceeds $3 million. That is, the value of the cryptocurrency has increased by more than a million percent since the last activity.

The wallet was last used on May 17, 2010years, less than a year before Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of the cryptocurrency, sent his last emails to other crypto developers.

As a reminder, the semi-anonymous nature of bitcoins means that it is possible to track transactions on the public blockchain, but it is not possible to link them to an individual or group.

This is not the first time the so-called "sleeping whale" is waking up this year: last month a bitcoin wallet containing 616 BTC was also activated after being unused for almost nine years.

Bitcoin's underlying technology meansonly 21 million bitcoins will ever exist, however several million are stuck in old wallets whose access keys could be lost or forgotten forever.

The most valuable dormant wallet currently contains about 80,000 BTC - about $ 5 billion at current exchange rates.

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