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Two separate whales each holding over 9 figures worth of crypto have transferred to holdings to exchanges over the past 24 hours. One whale owned an address that participated in Ethereum’s ICO back in 2014, and hadn’t moved his coins since. As revealed by the Twitter blockchain tracker Lookonchain, an Ethereum ICO participant moved 61,216 ETH worth $116 million to the crypto exchange Kraken on Tuesday. According to Etherscan, the address had zero other significant activity,...

Despite bitcoin’s relatively flat trading at between $30,000 and $31,000 lately, BTC sharks and whales have purchased approximately $2.14 billion (calculated at current prices) worth of the leading digital asset since June 17.  According to Santiment’s data, those investors own around 13.02 million BTC, equaling over $391 billion. The Recent Accumulation Spree The analytics platform focused on cryptocurrencies – Santiment – estimated that bitcoin sharks and whales (those who...

The price of bitcoin took a massive hit in 2022, dropping by more than 50% in 12 months. However, the crypto analytics platform Santiment believes there’s more bad news incoming in the new year. The company based its rather bearish prediction on the BTC whales’ activity. BTC Whales Are Net Sellers Santiment began its 2023 prediction analysis by highlighting the significance of BTC whales’ behavior for the asset’s price movements. This is somewhat expected since these types of...

Large bitcoin investors, more specifically such holding at least 100 and 1,000 coins in a single wallet, have started accumulating once again in massive portions. At the same time, the so-called accumulation wallets – meaning those who were active lately but have not spent any BTC – charted a new all-time high. Bitcoin Whales on Buying Spree It’s safe to conclude that there’s a lot of uncertainty in today’s financial world. While humanity was about to reduce the impact of the...

The blockchain data company – Chainalysis – claimed that criminal whales represent 3.7% of all cryptocurrency whales. Those bad actors collectively own over $25 billion worth of digital assets. Almost 4% of Crypto Whales Are Criminals Cryptocurrencies have many merits, and numerous experts maintain that they represent a financial revolution. However, bitcoin and the altcoins have their critics, too. These claim that drug traffickers, terrorists, and money-launderers employ...

While the recent plunge has put the crypto community into a state of panic, one HODLer is taking advantage. The third-largest Bitcoin whale just bought the dip, putting his stack over 121,000 BTC. On January 4th, the whale’s address added another 372 Bitcoin. The sum was purchased for $17,122,242.1 at the time. This was a follow-up to an even larger purchase from a day earlier, when he bought 456 Bitcoin for an average of $46,363 each. Bitcoin’s price plunged below $43k on...

Bitcoin’s price trading below $60,000 for over a week now has allowed some whales to accumulate more portions of the asset. On-chain data suggests that long-term holders and whales have bought 0.29% of the total supply in just a week. Bitcoin Whales Accumulating Ever since its peak at $69,000 on November 10th, bitcoin’s price has been on the downfall, losing roughly 20% of its value and bottoming below $56,000 just a week later. While this vigorous price drop in a relatively...

In a matter of two weeks, one of the largest BTC whales has accumulated more than 6,600 coins as the price of the asset has declined by more than 10% in the same timeframe. CryptoPotato frequently reports the sales and purchases of this particular whale, which tends to sell when the asset’s price has appreciated significantly in a short period of time and vice-versa. In the past several weeks, though, they have been focused on accumulating only, as CryptoQuant’s analyst...

After a good run over the past several weeks, bitcoin’s rally came to a screeching halt, at least for now. Here’s where the whales come in. In fact, one particular whale is actually keen on raking in more and more coins as price takes another breather. Following the cryptocurrency’s fall below the psychological support level of $60,000, the third-largest Bitcoin whale fetched another 1,647 BTC on November 17th. The amount rounds up to approximately $98.8 million. In the last...

One of the largest Bitcoin whales, who has been quite active lately, sold 1,500 coins at $56,200 yesterday. Interestingly, they bought back a third of that quantity a day later at a higher price. As outlined by CryptoQuant’s analyst going by the Twitter handle VentureFounder, the unknown BTC whale sold a large chunk of 1,500 bitcoins on October 3rd at $56,200 per coin. In USD terms, this substantial amount totaled $84,300,000. This coincided with their recent strategy to...