Futures
Access hundreds of perpetual contracts
TradFi
Gold
One platform for global traditional assets
Options
Hot
Trade European-style vanilla options
Unified Account
Maximize your capital efficiency
Demo Trading
Introduction to Futures Trading
Learn the basics of futures trading
Futures Events
Join events to earn rewards
Demo Trading
Use virtual funds to practice risk-free trading
Launch
CandyDrop
Collect candies to earn airdrops
Launchpool
Quick staking, earn potential new tokens
HODLer Airdrop
Hold GT and get massive airdrops for free
Pre-IPOs
Unlock full access to global stock IPOs
Alpha Points
Trade on-chain assets and earn airdrops
Futures Points
Earn futures points and claim airdrop rewards
Promotions
AI
Gate AI
Your all-in-one conversational AI partner
Gate AI Bot
Use Gate AI directly in your social App
GateClaw
Gate Blue Lobster, ready to go
Gate for AI Agent
AI infrastructure, Gate MCP, Skills, and CLI
Gate Skills Hub
10K+ Skills
From office tasks to trading, the all-in-one skill hub makes AI even more useful.
GateRouter
Smartly choose from 40+ AI models, with 0% extra fees
Walking through Bitcoin's history, I am always impressed by Satoshi Nakamoto's wallet. This address (1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa) contains the first 50 BTC mined on January 3, 2009, and remains completely inactive to this day since 2011. It’s like a treasure frozen in time.
What intrigues me most is that the entire Satoshi Nakamoto wallet holds approximately 1.1 million BTC — yes, 1.1 million indeed. With the current price around $77.96K, that’s more than $100 billion in value. No transactions since 2011. Nothing. Just silence.
Then there’s the Genesis Block address (1BvBMSEYstWetqTFn5Au4m4GFg7xJaNVN2), also with 50 BTC and equally dormant since the beginning. And there’s more: Hal Finney, who received the first transaction from Satoshi, had about 9,000 BTC before transferring to other wallets after his death in 2014.
The curious thing is to think about what these Satoshi Nakamoto wallets represent. It’s not just idle money — it’s the origin of Bitcoin itself. Meanwhile, the market moves, BTC rises 1.88% in 24 hours, but those old addresses remain as an unmoving monument. It makes you reflect on the early days of cryptocurrency.