Dormant Wallet Watch Screensaver
The Dormant Wallet Watch screensaver watches a curated set of famous, long-dormant early Bitcoin addresses and flags the rare moment any of them moves, drawn key-less and live from mempool.space. It's free, runs in your browser, and ESC exits.
How the Dormant Wallet Watch screensaver works
The saver polls a curated list of publicly known, historically dormant Bitcoin addresses via mempool.space, with no key required.
Each address shows its real current balance and how long it's held it untouched.
If a watched address ever moves, it's flagged prominently — a genuinely rare event.
Balances refresh on a schedule so the display stays current.
A worked example
Most of the time every address reads the same real balance it's held for over a decade — the watch is quiet by design, which is exactly the point.
Settings & tips
- Accent recolours the balance readouts.
- These are real, publicly attributed early addresses, not random wallets.
- A move after years of silence is a genuinely notable on-chain event, widely discussed when it happens.
Frequently asked questions
- Whose wallets are these?
- A curated set of publicly documented, historically significant early Bitcoin addresses that have sat untouched for years.
- Is a key needed?
- No. mempool.space's public API is free and key-less.
- Do these ever actually move?
- Rarely — that rarity is exactly what makes it worth watching; it does happen occasionally and is real news when it does.
- Is it free?
- Yes — free, no download, in your browser.