The Artifact Drives — Legacy Provenance Record

I. Asset Authority

Legacy Bitcoin Address

1BMzWp77j7x3GKDYNbCP3df7YG3UEw1vVE

Signed Message

"TheArtifactDrives.com is the owner of the private key belonging to this address that moved 6622.24696455 BTC in 277 total transactions between 2012 and 2013. @SatoshisVault"

Cryptographic Signature

HFhzSlD49439O5VjSwTTCMo821n/tD76MhHFMlQHklo98JX3NgSiTE1y4QbEO75/OtRYXzoo2O5VzstBH0hlALY=

II. The Collection

This artifact represents one of the earliest surviving cryptographic ownership records linked to a historically significant Bitcoin address, all residing on the original hard drives they were created on.

Between 2012 and 2013, this address executed 277 transactions totaling 6,622.24696455 BTC, placing it among the highest-value independent key events from Bitcoin's formative era.

The collection includes a fully preserved Bitcoin-Qt v0.8.1-beta executable with the embedded wallet.dat—a functional Satoshi-era GUI using BerkeleyDB 4.8.0. It contains unrevised blkindex.dat and GENESIS blk.dat files in pristine condition, timestamped to 2012.

Asset Valuation

$25,000,000

Floor Price

Verified Independent Ownership
No Third-Party Custody

III. Technical Verification

EVIDENCE_LOG_V.0.8.1

FIG 1

Signature Generation

The original signature-generation dialog inside Bitcoin-Qt v0.8.1-beta. The embedded wallet.dat contains the private key used to produce this signature. Note the "recommended" transaction fee of 0.01 BTC—a historical artifact representing thousandths of a penny at the time, but thousands of dollars today.

FIG 2

Cryptographic Verification

Verification performed within the same preserved client confirms the signature as valid. This result establishes cryptographic continuity and proves that the embedded wallet is genuinely tied to the high-value transactions executed between 2012 and 2013.

FIG 3

Client Provenance

The "About" dialog confirms the client as "Satoshi" Bitcoin-Qt v0.8.1-beta. This build corresponds to a transitional phase in Bitcoin's development. The drives are confirmed to have one owner, one user profile, with only one daily user throughout the life of the hardware.