ENS whale resurfaces after almost 3 years to snag 40K ETH windfall
Ethereum ENS whale resurfaces after almost 3 years to snag 40K ETH windfall Balita ng Ethereum ng Bitcoin After more than two years of inactivity, an Ethereum Name Service (ENS) whale has resurfaced to claim millions in ETH. The account holder, which owns the famed “darkmarket.eth” ENS domain among others, recovered 39,712 ETH early on a recent Monday morning, worth approximately $74 million at time of publication. These funds were initially locked as a bid when the domain was purchased through ENS, and they have been unclaimed for years. The account holder then transferred part of these reclaimed funds — 63,734 ETH, worth roughly $118 million at time of publication — to a different Ethereum address. ENS founder Nick Johnson clarified in a tiririt from February 2021 that the initial deposit of close to 40,000 ETH was made during the first two years of ENS operation. Johnson had tried appealing to the user, and he directed them to where they could reclaim the funds at that time. Now that the individual appears to have done just that, Johnson seized the opportunity to provide further guidance to other users on how they can retrieve their own locked-up ether. When Blockworks asked Johnson what he made of this situation, he








