Genesis Block Coinbase (Block 0)
Block 0 was mined on 3 January 2009 and is hard-coded into the Bitcoin client. Its 50 BTC coinbase output pays to 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa, but because the genesis coinbase transaction was never…
Curated address library · 25 dossiers
Bitcoin wallet and address dossiers
Inspect notable public addresses through cited records, exact on-chain identifiers and transaction-graph lineage. Every label is bounded by its evidence; an address is not automatically a person, a whole wallet or an ownership cluster.
01 · Early network
Origins and the early network
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Patoshi-Pattern Early Mining Set (2009-2010)
In 2013 the researcher Sergio Demian Lerner published an analysis of Bitcoin's earliest blocks and found that a large share of them carried a distinctive fingerprint, which he later named the Patoshi pattern.
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Hal Finney — Recipient of the First Bitcoin Transaction (Block 170)
Hal Finney (1956-2014), a cryptographer known for his work on PGP and for the earlier Reusable Proofs of Work system, downloaded the first public Bitcoin release in January 2009 and was among the first people…
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The Bitcoin Faucet (2010) — Published Donation Address
On 11 June 2010 Gavin Andresen announced a web service at freebitcoins.appspot.com that handed out a small amount of bitcoin to anyone who solved a captcha and supplied a receiving address.
02 · Exchange records
Exchanges and custodians
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Kraken
Kraken is a US-based cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2011 and one of the longest continuously operating venues in the market.
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OKX (formerly OKEx)
OKX, formerly OKEx, is a cryptocurrency exchange that in November 2022 published a list of its bitcoin reserve wallet addresses as part of an industry-wide proof-of-reserves push.
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QuadrigaCX (defunct)
QuadrigaCX was a Canadian cryptocurrency exchange that collapsed in early 2019 after the reported death of founder Gerald Cotten, who was said to be the sole holder of the exchange's private keys.
03 · Incident records
Hacks and traced proceeds
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Bitfinex 2016 Hack Destination Addresses
On 2 August 2016 the exchange Bitfinex was breached and coins were moved out in more than two thousand transactions.
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Bitfinex Hacked-Coin Movement, January 2017
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.
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Bitfinex Hack Residual Movement (2021)
Roughly a fifth of the coins taken from Bitfinex in 2016 was never recovered in the 2022 seizure. In April 2021, ten months before that seizure, two addresses holding hack-linked coins were emptied.
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PlusToken BTC Collection Addresses
PlusToken was a China-based investment scheme that operated during 2018 and 2019 and collapsed owing users billions of dollars' worth of cryptocurrency.
04 · Public custody
Public custody and seizures
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US DOJ — Silk Road "Individual X" Forfeiture (2020)
In November 2020 the US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California filed a civil forfeiture complaint (case 3:20-cv-07811) against approximately 69,370 BTC that had sat untouched at a single…
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US FBI — Silk Road / Ulbricht Seizure (2013)
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…
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El Salvador — National Bitcoin Office (ONBTC) Reserve
El Salvador made bitcoin legal tender in September 2021 and began accumulating bitcoin as a state reserve.
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US DOJ — 2016 Bitfinex Hack Proceeds Seizure
In August 2016 roughly 120,000 BTC was taken from the exchange Bitfinex. In February 2022 the US Department of Justice announced it had seized about 94,643 BTC of the stolen funds in connection with a…
05 · Bitcoin culture
Donations, burns and culture
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WikiLeaks published donation address (2011)
WikiLeaks began publishing a Bitcoin donation address in June 2011, after major card networks and payment processors cut the organisation off from conventional donations following its 2010 release of US…
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WikiLeaks donation address (currently published)
WikiLeaks currently publishes a native SegWit (bech32) Bitcoin address on its own donation page, alongside addresses for several other cryptocurrencies.
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All-zeros hash burn address
This address is what you get when the 160-bit hash inside a standard Bitcoin address is set entirely to zero.
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Counterparty XCP proof-of-burn address
In early 2014 the Counterparty project distributed its XCP token by proof-of-burn rather than by a sale: participants sent bitcoin to a deliberately unspendable address during a fixed window and received XCP…
06 · Dormant records
Dormant and reactivated holdings
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2011 Eight-Wallet Whale (awakened July 2025)
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.
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Dormant Bitcoin Addresses: Nine On-Chain Records
This comparative dossier brings nine previously separate address profiles into one evidence record.
07 · On-chain records
On-chain experiments and lore
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Bitcoin Puzzle transaction (2015)
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,…
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SatoshiDice betting addresses (1dice…)
SatoshiDice launched in 2012 as an entirely on-chain betting game. Players sent bitcoin to one of a set of vanity addresses beginning "1dice", each encoding a different win probability and payout multiple,…
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Bitcoin whitepaper embedded on-chain (2013)
In April 2013, transaction 54e48e5f5c656b26c3bca14a8c95aa583d07ebe84dde3b7dd4a78f4e4186e713 was mined into block 230,009 carrying the PDF of the Bitcoin whitepaper encoded across its outputs.
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QuadrigaCX cold wallet addresses
QuadrigaCX, a Canadian exchange, collapsed in early 2019 after the reported death of its founder, who was described as the only person able to access the exchange's cold storage.