Once again, an entity from the Satoshi era has surfaced. This time, it was revealed through a set of transactions involving coins mined between August and November 2010, sent to an unknown address.
As we can see on the Bitcoin explorers, a total of 117 transactions were transferred. Of these, 39 are of coins mined at that time. The total transfer was exactly 2,000 BTC, valued today at USD 178 million.
The striking thing about these transfers, beyond the amount involved, is related to the fact that several of the Coinbase addresses (of 50 BTC each, which represents the mining reward in 2010) received some transactions 4 years ago from another unknown entity, which hide a message.
The message reads," let's use full power of anonymity. See memo dot sv topic hmwyda" and then refers to a social networking website called Memo SV.
If you read the destination transaction column carefully, you can read the message. Source: Mempool.space
The meaning of the hidden message, which includes a reference to the term 'hmwyda', is unclear, and users of the social network Memo SV have long speculated about its meaning. In fact, there are numerous entries on this topic on that network, in various languages, such as Russian, Portuguese, English and Spanish, but the purpose of this message remains an enigma. Although some speculate that Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin, could be behind this mystery, the evidence is insufficient to support such a claim.
In March of this year, this is not the first time that this mysterious entity has sent this hidden message. At that time, the investigation went back to 2021, when the first traces of this message became known. In addition, as on that occasion, the miner carried out the operations in the middle of a bitcoin all-time high (ATH).
The new findings go further, as the message may have first spread in September 2020 (as far as we know now). In addition, this research discovered more hidden messages at other times, specifically between January and February 2021.
The mysterious miner's activity was not limited to the initial consolidation of funds. Hundreds more additional transactions were executed later, many of them consolidated in different addresses. Consolidation in this context means joining or gathering several individual transactions into a single record or set of data. It is notable that there are patterns in the transactions that hide the message, such as sequences that started at 0.00000547 BTC and continued in order: 0.00000548 BTC, 0.00000549 BTC, and so on.
It is striking that the consolidation of the 2,000 BTC carried out by this entity contains a group of at least 100 transactions that have the same value of 0.0000547 BTC. However, on this occasion we were unable to decipher a new message. Perhaps, the entity is only consolidating the satoshis it used to create the previous messages, in the event that it is the same person or group of people, although this has not been proven.
It is clear that whoever is behind these operations has a deep technical knowledge of Bitcoin, suggesting a possible involvement in mining in the early days of the network. The sophistication of the transactions, executed in batches and handled discreetly, indicates a high level of expertise and a clear intention to hide their identity.
