Something beautiful (or maybe just bizarre) happened in the Bitcoin world, and the whole crypto community is talking about it.
On June 30, 2025, an unknown wallet quietly sent 0.185 BTC, about $20,000 to the very first Bitcoin address ever created…the one that belongs to Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s mysterious, still-anonymous founder.
Arkham Intelligence spotted the transaction and pointed out that it’s the biggest transfer to that legendary address in the last four months. The receiving wallet is the famous Genesis address is the one from the very first block ever mined, the birth certificate of Bitcoin itself.
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A Regular Pattern or Just a Mistake?
Arkham’s analysts say it could go either way: maybe someone accidentally pasted the wrong address when withdrawing from an exchange, or maybe a longtime Bitcoin believer wanted to send a quiet “thank you” to the person who started it all.
This isn’t the first time someone has “donated” to Satoshi, either. Back in February 2025, another person sent roughly $200,000 worth of BTC to the same address shortly after pulling funds from Binance. Over the years, people have sent everything from a few thousand dollars to more than a million as little digital flowers left on Satoshi’s doorstep.
Because many of these larger transfers seem connected to exchange withdrawals, the running theory is that some are honest (and very costly) mistakes, people fat-fingering the most famous wallet address in history. But others might be deliberate acts of respect. We’ll probably never know which is which, and that mystery is part of what makes it so touching.
Satoshi’s Wallet: A Dormant Fortune?
Meanwhile, Satoshi’s original holdings spread across the Genesis wallet and other early addresses sit untouched at a combined value of around $117 billion. Not a single satoshi has moved since Nakamoto vanished from the internet in 2011.
If those coins ever wake up and start moving one day, the entire crypto market will feel the earthquake.
Renewed Interest in Satoshi’s Identity
And of course, Satoshi Nakamoto’s identity remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of our time. Court cases, HBO documentaries, and countless amateur detectives have all tried to unmask Satoshi.
Lately, a few researchers have floated the idea that it could be Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, pointing to his deep passion for cryptography and privacy.
For now, though, both the person behind the pseudonym and those billions of dormant Bitcoin remain perfectly still like a time capsule waiting under the blockchain, watched by millions, touched by no one.
