I was digging into where Satoshi sent his bitcoins back in the day and stumbled upon this address: 3MqUP6G1daVS5YTD8fz3QgwjZortWwxXFd.
I’m not a pro in blockchain tracking or anything, but I noticed this address has received about 18.9 million BTC and sent out around 18.9 million BTC as well. I’m guessing those aren’t unique tokens, just the total amount of transactions. Still, that’s a crazy amount going in and out. Plus, it’s tagged as BTC M4 14, but when I searched for that, I couldn’t find anything relevant.
I’m curious if anyone knows what this address is all about, why it’s named BTC M4 14, and what’s its connection to Satoshi.
Oh, and I also found another address: 1Kr6QSydW9bFQG1mXiPNNu6WpJGmUa9i1g, which has over 158 million BTC sent (lol).
Just a heads up, these addresses are still active.
I don't know where you got those addresses from because Satoshi mined the first bitcoin in Jan 3, 2009. first BTC mined (The Genesis Block). I checked those two addresses and they have nothing to do with Satoshi who has remained anonymous.
The M4 14 has nothing to do with bitcoin or Satoshi it's simply the wallet label of who every owns the wallet you referenced.
The amount is normal for a service, exchange or pool's cold-storage wallet or even a hot wallet of a big exchange, don't just correlate any "loaded" bitcoin address to satoshi.
The tag was probably "grandfathered" there when Blockchain(dot)com used to accept address tags from the owner.
AFAIK, they required a signed message to include a tag like that "BTC M4 14" and if you're linking a website, a verification url.
For your curiosity, walletexplorer deduced that it belongs to "wallet [0031910272]"
Which could be Coinbase (don't ask for source).
Arkham Intel says that 3MqUP6G1daVS5YTD8fz3QgwjZortWwxXFd belongs to Coinbase Prime and 1Kr6QSydW9bFQG1mXiPNNu6WpJGmUa9i1g belongs to Bitfinex. Given the popularity of these exchanges, it is not surprising that they have seen millions of BTC in transactions.
I dont think there is a direct connection between these wallets and Satoshi. If you follow the transactions of anybody with a good amount of activity, eventually you will find that most people have transacted with somebody who uses a major exchange.
But what does "m4 14" itself represent?
Are these characters taken from an addresses for memorization purposes, or just a tag? To the web interface, not to any transaction itself, since blockchain.com was always just an explorer/wallet.