Inactive Bitcoin wallet has come back to life after 11 years of dormancy
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The wallet does not contain a lot of Bitcoin, however, there is enough BTC to make its owner a millionaire thanks to the massive profit seen in those 11 years.The aforementioned data source stated that this anonymous wallet had been reactivated after almost a dozen years of dormancy. It contains 26 Bitcoin worth $1,663,917 at the current BTC/USD exchange rate.
Frequently enough, dormant Bitcoin wallets again become active after a decade since their owners manage to recall their lost private keys to their BTC held in cold storage. However, once these wallets are reactivated, the whales begin to sell their Bitcoin partly, or all of it.
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