Well. This transaction took place quite recently - a few days ago. I assumed that perhaps this happened many years ago, but I was wrong. Checking blockchain confirmed that the amount of 75k$ was sent recently.


I had a similar thought and the person who sent 4BTC can afford to donate that amount. In fact, he definitely managed to burn it, and these 4BTC can certainly be deleted from the general circulation of bitcoin.

To me this doesn't seem like a mistake, but rather a deliberate action. It is impossible to say exactly who and why did it.

Proponents of amazing theories may say that it is OP who sends btc to himself from other addresses. But this is impossible.

I think you already answered your question, to burn bitcoins basically. Don't forget that every bitcoin burned adds value to the whole supply, so this cool bloke out there probably thought of burning some of his bitcoins whilst at the same time cementing himself in the history, I mean we're talking about him right now, so I guess it works? Well since we haven't heard from the guy I guess it's safe to say that he lost his keys, or maybe even did the same things you stated lmao. kiddings aside I can point to clout as to why they did this. They wanna be topical and be talked about probably in this forum, and they succeeded coz now we're talking about them.

This is not burn because we don't know if it's spendable or not. Satoshi still has access to his entire wallet, but he isn't touching it. I don't believe the Bitcoin creator would lose his private keys, which he is very familiar with. The sender would illustrate why he sent four Bitcoin to the Satoshi address. I believe it is an error. Because there is no reason for anyone to send this amount consciously.

If you want to be a part of history, and have Bitcoin to burn I can see certain individuals being motivated to do this. However, there's no real reason they did it other than saying they did do it. Since, no one knows the status of Satoshi, none of his addresses can be considered burn addresses either since they can't be verifiable as lost.

They probably just wanted users to talk about it, which they've achieved. If they have a lot of Bitcoin this might have been pennies to them. 

If this is the case we might end up reading a new about this mistake.  While it makes sense to consider the transaction a mistake done by the sender, we also cannot remove the fact that sometimes people who earn huge amounts of money give the person who gave them an opportunity some part of the earned money thus the 4 BTC sent to Satoshi address is indeed intentional to pay respect and thanks to what Satoshi had done to his financial status.

There is no reason at all to give 4BTC to someone who is supposed to own from 700k to 1m BTC

75k is definitely a big amount for most of us, but if this was done by a whale with tens of millions of dollars worth of bitcoin then this amount suddenly does not seem as impressive, besides everything depends on the preferences and wants of this person, some may prefer to spend those 75k on an expensive car or jewelry, but if that person decided that it was preferable to spend that money by sending such a huge transaction and creating such a reaction on the Internet about their reasons for doing so, then it seems to me they obtained exactly what they were looking for.

Who knows if that's just for a free will thanksgiving to appreciate Satoshi for his extraordinary work to make Bitcoin a reality 😂
I hope to see more Bitcoin sent to that address over and over again. There might be some rich kids that would never mind making a donation with any request. There had been so many eyes witha lot of scrutiny to know what will happen to those buck of Bitcoin sleeping over there without any use.

I don’t think it was a typo where the change and destination address was mixed up. If he meant to send something like $5 then there would only be 1 input and this transaction had 3 inputs.
Most wallets would just use 1 input to cover as much of the amount to spend.

Like others have said in this thread. It would of been better to just donate this money instead of waste it. Even if it removes circulation by a little it won’t make a difference in the long run. And having it sent there is pretty much a burn address.