Whale who sold Bitcoin before 2020 crash cashed out $156M before this week's ...
A serial seller with a lot of BTC to their name chose to divest themselves of a large chunk of Bitcoin just before Monday's crash to $47,400. Bitcoin (BTC) lost 20% in a day partly thanks to the actions of a single whale, new research suggests. Data from on-chain analytics firm Santiment on Feb. 23 showed that BTC/USD dipped to $47,400 after Bitcoin’s second-largest transaction of 2021 took place.Ghost of Bitcoin sell-offs past returnsThe transaction, 2,700 BTC worth $156.6 million at $58,000 per token, resulted in a sale which piled pressure on the market, this snowballing into the....
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Whales are some of the most relevant entities in the Bitcoin market because of their potential influence on the Bitcoin price through large-volume transactions. Investors and traders often look out for whale transactions, which can trigger a domino effect on the market. In one of such developments, recent on-chain data revealed that a particular whale has woken up from a three-year slumber, moving their BTC for the first time since 2020. Whale Becomes Active For The First Time In Three Years According to data from blockchain analytics platform Arkham Intelligence, a particular Bitcoin....
Bitcoin price is down more than 10% from the weekend’s new all-time high set above $60,000 after an overnight selloff. The now sizable correction was first assumed to be a massive whale dumping more than $1 billion in BTC on crypto trading platform Gemini, but ultimately turned out to be something else. Here’s what actually caused the correction, and why the market was so easily shaken by what was ultimately a non-event. Whale Watching: Bitcoin […]