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On the evening of May 20th, Beijing time, foreign media reported that the wallet address suspected to belong to Satoshi Nakamoto (block reward collection address at block height 3654) became active and transferred 50 BTC.

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Data source Chain.info

Chain.info has done an overall analysis on the blocks before October 2010, and made statistics on those bitcoins that were mined but never transferred to the mining reward address. These bitcoins include most of Satoshi Nakamoto's bitcoins, and there are also many bitcoins that other early miners did not take away. The total is about 1.72 million BTC, with a current price of more than 15 billion US dollars. We tagged these addresses with "Satoshi Nakamoto and early miners" to facilitate monitoring possible future transfers.

So far, according to public information, the only address that can be determined to belong to Satoshi Nakamoto may only be the block address with block height 9, because this address sent 10 BTC to Hal Finney at block height 12 (while the 50 BTC in the creation block The block reward is not included in the UTXO set, so it cannot actually be used), which is also the first transfer in the history of Bitcoin. The attribution of other earlier blocks can only be guesswork.

According to the tracking results of on-chain transactions on Chain.info, there is no intersection between the address with a block height of 9 and the address with a block height of 3654 that occurred last night, which proves to some extent that this change is not a central What Satoshi Ben did.

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Chart source: Sergio Demián Lerner

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Chart source: Sergio Demián Lerner

To sum up, we cannot clearly deny that the ancient address of this transfer belongs to Satoshi Nakamoto, but various evidences show that this address probably does not belong to Satoshi Nakamoto himself.

Disclaimer: The opinions involved in this report are based on comprehensive research and judgment based on data analysis. They are only for reference and not as investment basis. Risky investment in currency speculation requires caution.