New data reveals that a Bitcoin (BTC) whale is suddenly shifting around billions of dollars worth of the top crypto asset by market cap to and from wallets and crypto exchange platforms.
According to whale-surveying platform Whale Alert, the deep-pocketed BTC investor shifted 7,000 BTC, worth just over $280 million, on the night of January 25th from one unknown crypto wallet to another.
Before that, the high-net-worth crypto trader made several other transactions. Other noteworthy trades on Whale Alert’s radar include:
- 7,231 BTC worth $288,533,447 transferred from an unknown wallet to another unknown wallet.
- 3,505 BTC worth $138,712,948 transferred from an unknown wallet to another unknown wallet.
- 511 BTC worth $20,393,769 transferred from an unknown wallet to crypto exchange platform Kraken.
- 509 BTC worth $20,585,936 transferred from an unknown wallet to crypto exchange platform Bitfinex.
- 4,018 BTC worth $158,544,427 transferred from an unknown wallet to another unknown new wallet.
- 6,969 BTC worth $278,521,168 transferred from an unknown wallet to digital asset manager Coinbase Institutional.
According to the data, in total, the crypto whale moved around just over $1 billion worth of the flagship digital asset – the overwhelming majority going to unknown wallets.
Bitcoin is trading for $41,889 at time of writing, a 4.5% increase during the last 24 hours and an 8.3% rise from its seven-day low of $38,678 set on January 23rd.
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Source: https://dailyhodl.com/2024/01/26/bitcoin-whale-abruptly-moves-over-280000000-in-btc-heres-where-the-cryptos-headed/