{"id":11003,"date":"2025-02-03T09:01:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T09:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=11003"},"modified":"2025-02-03T09:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T09:01:53","slug":"ethereum-whales-awake-after-six-years-score-378-million-potential-profit-hours-before-market-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=11003","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Whales Awake After Six Years, Score $378 Million Potential Profit Hours Before Market Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Two <strong>Ethereum <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>) whale investors, inactive for six years, were suspected of booking hundreds of millions in profits by selling the second-largest cryptocurrency just before the big market crash on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: The two wallets deposited 135,548 ETH, worth $399 million, to\u00a0cryptocurrency exchange <strong>Bitfinex\u00a0<\/strong>eight hours before the overnight crash, according to on-chain tracker Spot On Chain. The wallets originally withdrew ETH at just $153.65 on Jan. 5, 2019, when the stash was worth $20.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t immediately clear whether the investors offloaded the entire stockpile. But if they did, they\u2019d be netting a profit of $378.3 million. <\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Two dormant Ethereum whale wallets just woke up after 6 years and deposited 135,548 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ETH&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$ETH<\/a> ($399M) &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/02\/43427669\/ethereum-whales-awake-after-six-years-score-378-million-potential-profit-hours-before-market-crash\" alt=\"Ethereum\" whales awake after six years score million potential profit hours before market crash>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) whale investors, inactive for six years, were suspected of booking hundreds of millions in profits by selling the second-largest cryptocurrency just before the big market crash on Sunday. What Happened: The two wallets deposited 135,548 ETH, worth $399 million, to\u00a0cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex\u00a0eight hours before the overnight crash, according to on-chain tracker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-11003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}