What is the highest non-service wallet you ever dealt with?

[hatshepsut93]

A long time ago in 2017 I was doing altcoin bounties on this forum, back when many of them were paying in BTC, and one time I got really surprised when a payment for the work came from a single address that held 400 BTC, which I think at that time was already over $1 million.

What's your story of sending or receiving money from whales, if you have one? Not counting the wallets of centralized services, of course.

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[GreatArkansas]

How did you know it was a non-service wallet you encountered before?

For me, I can't remember me having a transaction with an individual since it was not a big deal for me especially before when I started using Bitcoin, I still don't know how the transaction works before. So for my experience, I am positive that it is also from this forum as I have some members who transacted before and I believe they are non-service wallets.

Another thing is, sometimes it is difficult to identify some wallets that are owned by some entity, because what if they are using multiple wallets and separating the funds for particular reasons or fields that where the funds will use?

[dvndr007]

In 2015 I found one person betting with 300BTC while talking in chat I thought he is trolling until he send a screenshot and share a stretegy too that screenshot is legit.
I ask his country he said I am from srilanka then I ask from where you steal all this BTC normal people can't bet with this amount and then he stop replying.
although I use that screenshot in fooling people that I am rich I bet like this in 2018 I loose it and become poor again.   

[hatshepsut93]

How did you know it was a non-service wallet you encountered before?

Another thing is, sometimes it is difficult to identify some wallets that are owned by some entity, because what if they are using multiple wallets and separating the funds for particular reasons or fields that where the funds will use?

Because that transaction had one input and 2 outputs - my address and change. Services usually do batched withdrawals when they pay to many addresses at the same time, and they also use many small inputs in their transactions, which are the coins that were deposited by users. A single or a few large inputs happen when their hot wallet is empty and they use funds from the cold, or freshly refilled their hot wallet from the cold wallet, or if they had just consolidated all their UTXO. I find it extremely unlikely that when I received that payment, it was a service that had to process just one withdrawal and they only had a single 400 BTC coin and no smaller input.

[DaveF]

Back in 2015 I was working for someone trying to setup some services for selling BTC.

He had acquired a lot from early mining and had the idea that he could sell funded paper wallets.

Tried to tell him that nobody was going to pay for something like that since he had no online exposure at that time and would be coming in here and a few other places as a new user. But he wanted to go ahead with it. So I spent a weekend scanning QR codes to help him. Was 250BTC or so.

Project never went anywhere, he decided to keep the coins. But I did have that wallet on my phone for a few days as I kept sending them to the paper wallets.

-Dave

[SFR10]

Based on the ones I've documented, it's "50BTC".

• Mine was also from 2017... I was acting as an escrow provider for Qtum campaigns ^{[signature & Twitter]} and most of the BTCitcoins I've received from them, came from inputs that were more than 10BTC.

^{Note: I might be able to find a better one from my inbox, but it'll take a very long time.}