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Bitcoin's elusive creator, known by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, received roughly $5,000 worth of BTC over the past 24 hours as someone sent funds to wallet addresses widely attributed to the network's creator.
Blockchain data tracked by Arkham Intelligence shows a sequence of transactions originating from a shared Revolut hot wallet. The sender first made several tiny test transfers worth only a few cents before sending a final payment of approximately 0.033 BTC, valued at about $2,170 at current prices.
Combined with the earlier transactions, the transfers totaled roughly $5,000.
Because the funds originated from Revolut's shared wallet infrastructure, the identity of the sender cannot be determined from publicly available blockchain data alone.
The recipient addresses are part of the collection of wallets long associated with Nakamoto. Those wallets are estimated to hold approximately 1.11 million BTC, a stash that remains untouched more than 15 years after Bitcoin's launch.
With Bitcoin trading around $64,700, those holdings are worth roughly $71.81 billion. During Bitcoin's rally in 2025, the estimated value briefly exceeded $110 billion, placing Satoshi's paper wealth among the largest fortunes in the world.
Such a transfer to Satoshi-linked wallets can be understood as a symbolic gesture, gift, or attempts to permanently remove Bitcoin from circulation by sending it to addresses that are considered dormant.
Whether the latest transaction was intended as a tribute, an experiment, or something else remains unknown.
Bitcoin was exchanging hands at $64,662 at the time of writing
