Historic Bitcoin Addresses
Addresses that matter because of what happened at them rather than what they hold — the genesis block among them.
Labels are attributions from public explorer tags, reporting and, where a note says so, the owner's own published list — not proof of ownership. Balances are approximate, recorded 2026-09-15.
- Genesis block ~107.48 BTC
The coinbase output of block 0, mined by Satoshi in January 2009. Unspendable by a quirk of the original code; the balance keeps creeping up because people still send tribute payments to it.
1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa - Block 9 coinbase — sender of the first Bitcoin payment ~18.44 BTC
Mined on 9 January 2009 and still holding tribute payments. Eleven blocks later this address sent 10 BTC to another person and took 40 BTC back as change, which is the first time bitcoin moved between two people rather than to whoever mined it.
12cbQLTFMXRnSzktFkuoG3eHoMeFtpTu3S - Recipient of the first Bitcoin payment ~0 BTC
Received 10 BTC in block 170 on 12 January 2009, paid out of block 9's mining reward. Reporting attributes it to Hal Finney and Satoshi respectively, which is attribution rather than proof — but the payment itself is in the chain and can be read directly.
1Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwxXtWAWgFt5Jvm3 - The 10,000 BTC pizza ~0.004 BTC
Received exactly 10,000 BTC on 22 May 2010, paid for two delivered pizzas in the first documented purchase of a physical good with bitcoin. Worth a few tens of dollars then; the address keeps a dust balance today from people sending tribute.
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