THE “TWO 2013 WALLETS” WERE ONE TRANSACTION — FOUR ADDRESSES — 471.1 BITCOIN, NOT 416.7

On Oct. 18, 2026, Bitcoin.com reported that two bitcoin addresses from 2013 moved about 416.69 bitcoin “within five seconds” on Oct. 17, both in block 971,894. The block says something simpler. There was one transaction, not two. It spent seven coins held at four addresses and paid them out to 16 outputs.

Two of the four are the addresses in the report: 248.8539 bitcoin received at 12txLhfB on Nov. 12, 2013, and 167.84029246 bitcoin received at 1ECHiGyh in three payments from Aug. 20 to Oct. 2, 2013. The other two were left out. 12KSwcSM put in 54.17490571 bitcoin it received in August 2021, and 1K1eMBj8 put in 0.23130747 it received in June 2014. Total in: 471.10040564 bitcoin. Fee: 3,362 satoshis.

A transaction needs a valid signature for every coin it spends. So whoever sent this one held the keys to all four addresses, or worked with whoever did. A small 5,554 satoshi output went back to 1ECHiGyh and was swept four blocks later into one of the 15 new addresses, which ties them together again. And the block has one timestamp, 17:52:40 UTC. There is no five seconds in it.

Neither 2013 address had ever spent before, so for 13 years their public keys stayed hidden behind a hash. The coins went to 15 new SegWit addresses that hide their keys the same way. None of this needs a data firm or a reporter to be believed. Anyone running a node can count the inputs. At the time of this writing, bitcoin was $81,070.