If you've been in crypto long enough, you've seen a lot of crazy stories — but this one is straight-up legendary.

An Ethereum ICO participant who dropped just $310 back in 2014 to grab 1,000 ETH at $0.31 apiece has finally touched the bag after more than ten years of complete silence.

The wallet just sent out 200 ETH — worth roughly $626,000 at current prices — in two separate transfers (20 ETH + 180 ETH), breaking a dormancy streak that lasted over 3,762 days.

That original $310 is now worth $3.13 million. That's a clean 10,097× return for doing literally nothing except holding through every single bull run, bear market, hack, fork, and drama cycle Ethereum has ever had.

Absolute chad energy.

The move was first flagged by on-chain monitoring platforms and quickly blown up by @MrWhale on X, where it immediately started racking up thousands of views and the usual mix of “king” and “finally cashing out at the bottom” memes.

The address (0x9a67…5423 for short) still holds the remaining 800 ETH, currently valued at about $2.5 million. So whoever controls this wallet is still very much in the game.

These kinds of awakenings always spark the same questions:

• Taking profits after a decade?
• Moving to a new, more secure wallet?
• Paying for a house, a Lambo, or… quietly aping into the hottest new meme coin with life-changing money?

Whatever the reason, the timing is poetic. ETH has been showing serious strength lately, and stories like this remind everyone — especially the meme coin degens chasing 100× pumps — that sometimes the real alpha is just not selling.

In a space full of leverage, rugs, and 24-hour hype cycles, this ICO whale just dropped the ultimate flex: pure, diamond-handed, decade-long conviction.

Respect.

While we at Meme Insider obviously live for the chaos of meme tokens, we have to give flowers to the OGs when they make moves like this. This is the kind of patience every degen secretly wishes they had when their favorite dog coin is down 90 %.

Keep holding your bags, frens — one day you might be the whale that breaks the timeline. 🚀