Bitcoin worth about $5,000 has newly flowed into a dormant wallet linked to Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. The funds were sent from a Revolut co-owned hot wallet, making it hard to identify the sender. On-chain data show the sender tested the address with small transfers before sending 0.033 BTC. The recipient is a so-called Patoshi address cluster holding 1.11 million BTC, a holding described as untouched.

An analysis says the roughly 1.1 million bitcoins believed to be held by Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto are spread across more than 22,000 small wallets as a deliberate defence against future quantum-computer attacks. Bitwise researcher Andre Dragosch backed crypto analyst Marco Batistoni’s view that the so-called Patoshi pattern reflects intentional design. The debate comes as developers argue over BIP-361, which would shift to quantum-resistant signatures and potentially freeze inactive early-era coins.