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Dormant Bitcoin Wallets Wake Up After 16 Years, Moving $6.9 Million

By Jose Antonio Lanz

Two Bitcoin mining rewards from September 2010 moved minutes apart. The coins are worth nearly 1.15 million times their original market value.

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