I just came across a quite interesting analysis from Arkham Intelligence. Apparently, they managed to identify the suspected Satoshi Nakamoto wallets and added this information to their platform. The focus is on 22,000 addresses that, according to the analysis, belong to the Bitcoin creator.

The numbers are impressive: if we believe the study based on the well-known Patoshi Pattern, then the Satoshi Nakamoto wallets hold exactly 1,096,354 bitcoins. That’s 5.22% of all BTC in the world. In monetary terms, this is approximately 627 billion reais, or about 108.8 billion dollars. For context — this would place the Bitcoin creator at 14th on Forbes’ list of the richest people, ahead of individuals like Michael Dell, Bill Gates, and Michael Bloomberg.

The most interesting part of this story is that no one has touched these Satoshi Nakamoto wallets for nearly 15 years. The last recorded activity was in July 2010, when Bitcoin was almost worthless. This gives us some confidence that these addresses truly belong to the original creator.

The Patoshi Pattern is a study published by Sergio Demian Lerner back in 2013. He noticed unique patterns in the mined Satoshi blocks that allowed him to identify his mining activity. Arkham used this analysis to compile their database of suspected addresses.

Another intriguing point — Arkham found that Satoshi made only 13 transactions between January 2009 and July 2010. The most famous one was sending 10 bitcoins to Hal Finney. Two other addresses received bitcoins from Mike Hearn, one of the early developers. There was also a large transaction of 500 BTC to an unsigned address.

So now we have a fairly detailed picture of where Satoshi Nakamoto’s bitcoins are located. Of course, questions remain — could Satoshi have other wallets that no one has been able to identify? Is he moving his coins from other addresses? At this point, it remains a mystery, but Arkham’s data provides a good starting point for understanding how the original creator’s bitcoins are distributed.