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Selected movements, with the historical record.
Each entry is a dated on-chain event taken from a sourced dossier: coins spent, received, consolidated, burned, seized, or data embedded in a transaction. Entries are curated from the documented records, not from a live monitor; every one carries the primary source it came from and a permalink you can cite.
Not a balance tracker. Degrees of Satoshi shows no balances. A movement here is a documented transaction, described in the words of the dossier it came from.
El Salvador — National Bitcoin Office (ONBTC) Reserve · Spend
A single transaction in block 912,321 splits the reserve address into fourteen new P2SH outputs, none above 500 BTC.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §2011 Eight-Wallet Whale (awakened July 2025) · Spend
with the final tranche reaching Galaxy Digital on 18 July 2025
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §2011 Eight-Wallet Whale (awakened July 2025) · Spend
Beginning 4 July 2025 all eight were emptied, first into modern bech32 addresses and then onward to trading desks, with the final tranche reaching Galaxy Digital on 18 July 2025.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §El Salvador — National Bitcoin Office (ONBTC) Reserve · Receipt
Bukele publishes the reserve address 32ixEdVJWo3kmvJGMTZq5jAQVZZeuwnqzo and reports 5,689 BTC moved to a domestic cold-storage vault.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §El Salvador — National Bitcoin Office (ONBTC) Reserve · Receipt
In March 2024 President Nayib Bukele separately disclosed the address of a cold wallet he said was moved into a physical vault inside the country.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §US DOJ — 2016 Bitfinex Hack Proceeds Seizure · Receipt
secondary US government custody address associated with the same case; first funded February 2024
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §QuadrigaCX cold wallet addresses · Spend
Several of those addresses saw movement again in December 2022, which the monitor said was not authorised by it.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §US DOJ — 2016 Bitfinex Hack Proceeds Seizure · Seizure transfer
primary US government custody address for the February 2022 seizure; funded 1 Feb 2022, never spent
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §Bitfinex Hack Residual Movement (2021) · Spend
hack-linked address that sent 6.51 BTC directly to an exchange on 14 April 2021
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §Bitfinex Hack Residual Movement (2021) · Spend
In April 2021, ten months before that seizure, two addresses holding hack-linked coins were emptied.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §US DOJ — Silk Road "Individual X" Forfeiture (2020) · Seizure transfer
The complaint states the coins were moved out of Silk Road in 2013 through two intermediary addresses by a person it calls only "Individual X", and that the funds were obtained by the government on or about 3 November 2020. The coins were consolidated into a government-controlled address that has received but never spent.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §PlusToken BTC Collection Addresses · Receipt
address that received a PlusToken-associated 11,999 BTC transfer reported in 2019
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §PlusToken BTC Collection Addresses · Receipt
address that received a PlusToken-associated 424 BTC transfer reported in 2019
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §QuadrigaCX cold wallet addresses · Spend
Court-appointed monitor Ernst & Young reported that it had identified six bitcoin cold wallets, that five had held no bitcoin since April 2018, and that the sixth appeared to have been used only to route funds into the exchange's hot wallet.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §Bitfinex Hacked-Coin Movement, January 2017 · Receipt
In late January 2017 a tranche of coins traced to the 2016 Bitfinex breach was moved on-chain in uniform amounts of roughly four bitcoin each.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §WikiLeaks published donation address (2011) · Receipt
Bitcoin Magazine reports the public address has received its 4,000th bitcoin.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §Bitfinex 2016 Hack Destination Addresses · Receipt
On 2 August 2016 the exchange Bitfinex was breached and coins were moved out in more than two thousand transactions.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §Bitcoin Puzzle transaction (2015) · Receipt
On 15 January 2015 a single transaction, 08389f34c98c606322740c0be6a7125d9860bb8d5cb182c02f98461e5fa6cd15, funded 256 outputs with amounts scaling from 0.001 BTC to 0.256 BTC — one output per puzzle index, where the private key for puzzle N is known to lie inside an N-bit range.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §Counterparty XCP proof-of-burn address · Burn
Window closes at block 283,810 (19:58:28 UTC). The final burn earns exactly 1,000 XCP per BTC.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §Counterparty XCP proof-of-burn address · Burn
A 1 BTC burn confirms in block 283,811, sixteen minutes after the cutoff block, and earns nothing.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §Counterparty XCP proof-of-burn address · Burn
Burn window opens at block 278,310 (20:11:51 UTC); the first accepted burn lands nine blocks later at 278,319, earning 1,499.18 XCP per BTC.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §US FBI — Silk Road / Ulbricht Seizure (2013) · Seizure transfer
After the October 2013 takedown of Silk Road, US law enforcement moved coins from the marketplace and from Ross Ulbricht's seized hardware into a single publicly known consolidation address, in a long series of transfers reported at the time.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §Bitcoin whitepaper embedded on-chain (2013) · Data embedded
Cablegate index transaction confirms in block 230,203, closing out the embedding burst.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §Bitcoin whitepaper embedded on-chain (2013) · Data embedded
Final Cablegate chunk confirms in block 230,136, completing 130 chunk transactions.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §Bitcoin whitepaper embedded on-chain (2013) · Data embedded
Uploader tool transaction confirms in block 229,991 at 17:17 UTC.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §Bitcoin whitepaper embedded on-chain (2013) · Data embedded
Whitepaper transaction 54e48e5f… confirms in block 230,009 at 20:28 UTC: 948 outputs, 198,724 bytes, 0.596175 BTC fee.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §WikiLeaks published donation address (2011) · Data embedded
Cablegate archive embedding begins in block 230,010; each of the 130 chunk transactions carries a one-satoshi payment to the donation address.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §US DOJ — Silk Road "Individual X" Forfeiture (2020) · Receipt
against approximately 69,370 BTC that had sat untouched at a single address since April 2013
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §WikiLeaks published donation address (2011) · Receipt
WikiLeaks publishes its Bitcoin donation address; the first two payments (0.44 and 0.05 BTC) confirm in block 130,863.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §2011 Eight-Wallet Whale (awakened July 2025) · Receipt
Eight legacy addresses each received roughly 10,000 BTC in April and May 2011 and then recorded no outgoing transaction for more than fourteen years.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §Dormant Bitcoin Addresses: Nine On-Chain Records · Spend
17 transactions; last 15 October 2010
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §Dormant Bitcoin Addresses: Nine On-Chain Records · Spend
Chain-history checks found four outgoing transactions from the first, last on 24 July 2010, and 17 from the second, last on 15 October 2010.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §Patoshi-Pattern Early Mining Set (2009-2010) · Mined
Block 54,316 timestamped 13:17:07 UTC at difficulty 11.46 — the endpoint Whale Alert gives for the pattern.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §Dormant Bitcoin Addresses: Nine On-Chain Records · Receipt
The first receipt for 198aMn6Z…y4g3Hi was independently located at block 5,219 on 22 February 2009; that date still does not support an ownership attribution.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §Genesis Block Coinbase (Block 0) · Spend
Block 170 records the first non-coinbase transaction, demonstrating that ordinary coinbase outputs — unlike block 0's — do enter the UTXO set.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §Hal Finney — Recipient of the First Bitcoin Transaction (Block 170) · Receipt
Block 170 confirms at 03:30:25 UTC: 10 BTC to Finney, 40 BTC change, spending the block 9 coinbase.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §Genesis Block Coinbase (Block 0) · Mined
Block 1 timestamped 02:54:25 UTC — 463,160 seconds after block 0.
Dossier · Source ↗ · Permalink §Genesis Block Coinbase (Block 0) · Mined
Block 0 timestamped 18:15:05 UTC; 285 bytes, difficulty 1, nonce 2083236893, one transaction.
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