💤 The Long Sleep

Six Bitcoin wallets dormant since 2011–2014 moved a combined $40.15 million in ten days, per Galaxy Research.

Coins bought at $14 — or as little as $5 — logged gains from +461,981% to +1,535,911%. The best of the batch: 40 BTC from May 2012, sent straight to German custody bank Boerse Stuttgart Digital.

Two wallets carry "Salomon Client Dusted" tags, linking them to the Noah Doe case — a New York lawsuit trying to have 39,069 dormant addresses declared abandoned property. The other four fit no theory. They just moved.

Somewhere there's a hard drive, a file of old keys, and eleven years of patience. Turns out patience compounds.

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