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A cryptographic wallet that has more than $ 400 million in bitcoin (btc) linked to the Darknet market nucleus has aroused after nine years, according To Arkham Intelligence. On March 7, the entity that controls the wallet moved $ 77.5 million in btc to three new directions, leaving $ 365 million in the primary wallet.
The wallet had been inactive since April 2016, when the market closed with 5,000 btc of suppliers and customers deposits. At that time, the funds were worth approximately $ 2.1 million, according to the Arkham tracker.
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Nucleus was one of the many Darknet markets that proliferated around that time, facilitating the sale of drugs, weapons and other smuggling. While the official story that surrounded its closure was that it was pirate, the conspiracy theories revolved. Some thought That the administrators of the core site were executing an exit scam, while others believed that the administrators had been arrested.
Core transactions, as for many other Darknet markets, were largely carried out in bitcoin, since cryptocurrency was more difficult to track and, therefore, offered a certain level of anonymity for those who participate in such activities.
The nucleus wallet awakening occurred one day after the president of the United States, Donald Trump, signed an executive order creating a strategic Bitcoins reserve in the United States. The btc for the reserve will initially come from the cryptography already seized through the negatives, although there is room for acquisitions of more “neutral budget” currencies of more coins.
Inactive wallets wake up as the crypto price increases
Since the beginning of 2023, the price of bitcoin has increased significantly. He jumped less than $ 17,000 per currency in January 2023 and since then has reached a historical maximum of around $ 108,000.
During this race of Toro, many latent wallets have woken up, some that date from the 2010s, such as the nucleus market wallet. In July 2023, an 11 -year -old latent wallet with 1,037 btc woke up, with the owner moving all the stash.
In 2024, other inactive wallets followed. In May 2024, three Tatoshi era woke up, with a moving 687 btc and two others moving 1,000 btc, for a value of $ 61 million at that time. In June 2024, a whale transferred 8,000 btc of an inactive five -year wallet, and in September 2024, five miners of Miners of the Sato era woke up after 15 years and began to move their coins.
There may also be an interesting development on the horizon: the CEO of Tether, Paolo Ardoino, said that quantum computing could lead to computer pirates that are divided into the first bitcoin wallets, which leads to more supposed “lost” coins returning to the circulation.
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