Record 270K BTC Movement in 2025: Understanding the Surge

2025 shapes up as a record year for the movement of long-dormant Bitcoin. New insights reveal that over 270,000 BTC, inactive for seven years or longer, have been transacted this year, setting a new benchmark.

This amount has already surpassed 2024’s total of 255,000 BTC and far exceeded 2023’s figure of 59,000 BTC, with two months left in the year.

2025: The Year of Awakening

CryptoQuant has elaborated that this surge in historical Bitcoin movements may be attributed to several factors: old miners redistributing long-held reserves, transferring assets into fresh cold wallets for enhanced security, and partial sell-offs as favorable prices create lucrative opportunities.

If this trend continues, 2025 could witness over 300,000 BTC with more than seven years of dormancy being moved.

Supplementing this trend, a tweet from Lookonchain highlighted a miner’s wallet (18eY9o), dormant for 14 years and holding 4,000 BTC from 2009, which recently became active. The wallet holder transferred 150 BTC, valued at approximately $16.59 million.

This activity indicates a broader trend of older coins becoming active again, hinting at both strategic actions by miners and renewed liquidity from historically inactive addresses.

Bitcoin experienced a modest 2.1% increase in the last day, now trading at $111,178. As more long-held coins re-enter circulation, the potential impact on price dynamics and investor behavior in the remaining months of the year remains to be seen.

Resurfacing Dormant Bitcoins

In September, a miner-era wallet that had been dormant for 12 years transferred 400.08 BTC, worth about $44 million, to several new addresses. These bitcoins were mined 15 years ago, and a humorous post on X highlighted the generational wealth unlocked by accessing this wallet.

Earlier in July, a wallet dormant for 14 years containing over 80,000 BTC moved 20,000 BTC worth $2.4 billion, with many coins directed to institutional custodian Galaxy Digital. The resurgence of various wallets, with some funds directed to exchanges like Binance and Bybit, has drawn parallels to the sell-offs by the Mt. Gox trustee in 2024, raising concerns about a potential market correction.