Quote from: pashkasan on July 04, 2025, 02:00:04 PM

2025-07-04 03:44:23.118 12tLs9c9RsALt4ockxa1hB4iTCTSmxj2me (https://btcparser.com/?a=12tLs9c9RsALt4ockxa1hB4iTCTSmxj2me) created 02.04.2011 🔥 -10000.01141274 block:903916
2025-07-04 04:19:15.687 1KbrSKrT3GeEruTuuYYUSQ35JwKbrAWJYm (https://btcparser.com/?a=1KbrSKrT3GeEruTuuYYUSQ35JwKbrAWJYm) created 02.04.2011 🔥 -10000.01691126 block:903921
2025-07-04 12:40:02.389 1P1iThxBH542Gmk1kZNXyji4E4iwpvSbrt (https://btcparser.com/?a=1P1iThxBH542Gmk1kZNXyji4E4iwpvSbrt) created 04.05.2011 🔥 -10000.01287044 block:903967
2025-07-04 13:10:03.794 1CPaziTqeEixPoSFtJxu74uDGbpEAotZom (https://btcparser.com/?a=1CPaziTqeEixPoSFtJxu74uDGbpEAotZom) created 04.05.2011 🔥 -10000.01038616 block:903974
2025-07-04 13:37:03.534 14YK4mzJGo5NKkNnmVJeuEAQftLt795Gec (https://btcparser.com/?a=14YK4mzJGo5NKkNnmVJeuEAQftLt795Gec) created 04.05.2011 🔥 -10000.03579381 block:903975
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The "OP_RETURN messages" you're seeing aren't magic signals from the old keys. They're almost certainly spam/dust txs sent to the same legacy addresses by third parties (often "recovery-service" advertisers) once block explorers or bots flag those 2011 UTXOs as interesting.

Anyone can send a tiny output to an address and include an OP_RETURN with some text. They do not need the private key of the 2011 coins to do this.

Explorers usually show all activity on an address on one page, so those spam txs look like they're "related" or "before the move". They're not; they're just separate transactions touching the address.

These OP_RETURNs don't affect spendability and don't "unlock" anything. They're just on-chain graffiti/ads ("key recovery", contact TG, etc.), a pattern we see whenever old/large UTXOs start moving.

If the keys had been sold OTC, the buyer would ask for a signed message or a small peel-test, not random OP_RETURN notes from other wallets.

So the sequence "OP_RETURN notes first, big 10k BTC spends later" is simply bots spamming the address once it hit watchlists. The real spends are the four large outputs in blocks ~9039xx that actually move the 2011 coins; the OP_RETURN txs are unrelated noise.