I don't understand why would you care what other people do with their coins, and why would you even spend time watching this transactions.
If you really want to do something good in the world you can always do it yourself, locally or worldwide, just send your coins to charity of your choice as donation.
Puppet politicians and governments spent a lot more money for endless wars and killing...

I don't think it's a "showoff by the filthy rich" since the people sending it are not publicly known in the first place. You have a point though. Those massive amounts would definitely go a long way if actually donated, but I guess every individual does what pleases them with their wealth.

I think the same reason why people transfer dust to that address might also be why others transfer massive amounts. Maybe seeing their 2 BTC or whatever amount in the genesis address feels cool to them, but certainly not to everyone. IMO, those massive donations would have gone a long way in terms of donation, but we can't really talk people into what they don't intend to do.

There's no explanation for such decisions other than the personal desires of the coin owner. There may be those who enjoy seeing the transfer address on BlockGenesis or those who want to thank Satoshi. Often, we're unable to explain everything according to our own logic, so our minds are surprised by things they're not used to thinking about, or things we once thought were unthinkable or pointless.
I agree with the post above, which indicated that there's no reason to be surprised by such news because sending dust to BlockGenesis is a million times better than spending it on wars and killing. At the same time, I don't deny that I hope we'll one day get to know these donators and let them offer us their perspective. In any case, whatever their reasons and motives, they are legitimate, and no one has the right to oppose or criticize them in any way that offends their owner.

This Bitcoin Genesis Address has 50 unspendable bitcoins.

Now it has 102.97495184 BTC and it means there are people who have sent more than 52 bitcoins to Bitcoin Genesis address.
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa

There are 45,404 transactions to this address so far.

I don't buy the "its a rich person showing off" thing, that would be a stupid way of doing it by burning valuable money that can be used a lot better! But also I checked some of the other addresses that received smaller payments in that same transaction and I couldn't find anything out of the ordinary among them (like protocol abuse and attacks like Ordinals) which would have made sense because such people do crazy things like that to advertise their scam!
Maybe I need to dig deeper, but I don't like wasting time...

It may be a new style of proof of burning.
I hope we don't see any memecoin or token based on donations to that address.

Usually I don't bother what others do with their coins, except maybe when some outstanding transactions happen. It's just curiosity, especially when I can't quite wrap my head around it.

I see these transactions because I have a watch-only Bitcoin Core wallet full of combo descriptors of the so-called Patoshi blocks and because I can and curiosity (see above).

Sure, there's no good unless you do it yourself. I get this but not quite the point here.

Vote against it and have a strong voice for a change, that's the least one can and should do.


Hmm, I'm not in this inscriptions or Runes shittery, but I assume this fool can at least sell it to a greater fool or suffer whatever loss he deserves. This is different to coins which are immobilized by throwing them at the Genesis block.


I don't expect this to ever happen – donators, surprise me!  


Yes, and the four transactions I listed contribute little more than 34.5BTC of those nearly 53BTC and where made when Bitcoin had 4- to 5-figure dollar rates, so quite considerable values.


I've to assume this, too.


The most recent transaction I listed is indeed very different from the other three that it has 61 outputs of which the one to the Genesis block legacy address is the largest. Me too, I don't have the time to dig deeper for now.


It's only a burn if Satoshi Nakamoto has discarded his private keys completely. We don't know, we likely won't ever know for sure. I don't expect Satoshi to ever consolidate any coins "donated" to blocks they mined in the beginning. I do consider those coins as burned, even when technically they aren't.

Donations to this forum are a completely different thing, not comparable to immobilized UTXOs "on the Genesis block" or similar.


There's no proof in my opinion. You can't prove Satoshi has discarded the private key of the Genesis block. It may be likely but that's all.

We've seen a lot of shit thrown as spam into the blockchain. I wouldn't be surprised as stupidity is a constantly growing property, to exaggerate a bit.

It looks like my theory about it being FreeBitco.in that made this transaction was proven correct. Somebody posted this withdrawal transaction on their thread:


Following the largest output, which is most likely the change address, leads to bc1qfdh66p7vdlc4qhk9f52z89v62yq8hy28qku7h2. That address then makes a payment in the transaction 9536d1fc01a9c2ecedce0c8267b15b755ce8348838bd4dacc4ef7f07ce44afd4, which also includes three inputs from address 3DpHxqfmiFtyykdGhYcVcKnJGodUgkd2A4. This was one of the addresses used in the payment which sent 2.6 BTC to Satoshi.

Updated thread's title to be more general and fitting to new updates.

And we have new large "donations" (updated 2025-07-27):

Past March 14^th, 2025 large recent transfers to 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa (more or equal to 500,000 sats):

I didn't do any further digging about the origin of inputs or if some "donations" are related to each other. Some entities are quite generous, but to whom? I don't expect Satoshi to claim and move any of the coins.

If such entities have coins to throw away, why not donate to Free Software Foundation, interesting Bitcoin related software projects or charity? There are more than enough opportunities to do something better with coins than immobilize them on the Genesis block. What a waste...