I just saw some crazy on-chain monitoring data—Satoshi Nakamoto's legendary wallet address suddenly showed activity today! A wallet that hasn't moved in over 14 years suddenly made a transfer, initially receiving a test transaction of 0.0001 BTC, then sending 1 BTC to a major exchange. Based on current prices, this address still holds nearly 1 million BTC, which at $68.49K per BTC amounts to around $700 billion.



The community exploded, and the hashtag #SatoshiActive trended worldwide on Twitter. Some say this is Satoshi himself testing the wallet, while others worry about a large-scale sell-off causing a market dump. An MIT researcher said it might just be a security test, but it's more likely that the private key has been cracked. Regardless, if this is truly Satoshi's activity, it would have a huge psychological impact on the entire Bitcoin market.

However, the Bitcoin core team emphasized on Reddit that even if the private key is compromised, it doesn't affect the security of the protocol itself. Still, this incident definitely reminds us to be cautious of scams that exploit this to promote "Satoshi revival."
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