{"id":615193,"date":"2026-06-16T22:50:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T22:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=823447"},"modified":"2026-06-16T22:50:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T22:50:47","slug":"onchain-data-locks-in-satoshis-1-1m-btc-hoard-3-theories-on-why-it-never-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/onchain-data-locks-in-satoshis-1-1m-btc-hoard-3-theories-on-why-it-never-moves\/","title":{"rendered":"Onchain Data Locks In Satoshi\u2019s 1.1M BTC Hoard \u2014 3 Theories on Why It Never Moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/onchain-data-locks-in-satoshis-1-1m-btc-hoard--3-theories-on-why-it-never-moves_nwmk-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Satoshi Nakamoto email introducing the first codebase.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Over the years, blockchain forensic analysis has traced roughly 1.1 million bitcoin, currently worth nearly $73 billion, to Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, with the entire cache sitting untouched since 2010. What the Numbers Show The estimate places Satoshi\u2018s holdings at approximately 1.09 million to 1.1 million BTC, representing about 5.47% of bitcoin\u2019s [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, blockchain forensic analysis has traced roughly 1.1 million bitcoin, currently worth nearly $73 billion, to Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, with the entire cache sitting untouched since 2010. What the Numbers Show The estimate places Satoshi\u2018s holdings at approximately 1.09 million to 1.1 million BTC, representing about 5.47% of bitcoin\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,2,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-615193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-blockchain","9":"category-featured","10":"category-mining"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}