One of the oldest Bitcoin addresses in existence, one of the so-called ‘legacy’ addresses that begin with ‘1’ (I also have one, hashtag unsolicited flex), once received (and sent) a mind-boggling amount of Bitcoin.
On November 26, 2011, 1M8s2S5bgAzSSzVTeL7zruvMPLvzSkEAuv received 500,000 Bitcoins.
The same address sent those 500,000 Bitcoins somewhere else just a few hours later.
Back then, at a rate of $2.26 BTC per coin, this transaction would’ve been worth $1.13 million.
Now, that’s nothing to sneeze at. But it pales in comparison to what 500,000 BTC is worth today.
At the time of writing, 500,000 BTC is worth 21,157,600,000 – over $21 billion.
This is, to my knowledge, the largest individual Bitcoin transaction not involving CEXs.
Let me know in the comments if you know of a larger transaction.
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