1.71 million BTC from 2009-2012 Block rewards still latent, worth over $100 billion

Last week, a batch of five block rewards from 2009 were moved for the first time in nearly two years. Interestingly, since 2015, only 48 block rewards have been spent since the year Bitcoin was created. With the awakening of these so-called “sleeping” bitcoins from the early days of Bitcoin, it is a good time to reflect on just (…)