{"id":35170,"date":"2025-07-04T08:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T08:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=35170"},"modified":"2025-07-04T08:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T08:17:12","slug":"bitcoin-whales-wake-up-from-14-year-slumber-to-move-over-2b-of-btc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=35170","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Whales Wake Up From 14-Year Slumber to Move Over $2B of BTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>When a large whale moves in the sea, it creates ripples across the water. Similarly, when a large bitcoin (BTC) holder, often referred to as a crypto whale, moves its coins on-chain, that creates buzz on social media, prompting observers to wonder if it&#8217;s a prelude to a sale and downside price volatility.<\/p>\n<p>Early Friday, two wallets, labelled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/bitinfocharts.com\/bitcoin\/address\/12tLs9c9RsALt4ockxa1hB4iTCTSmxj2me-nodusting\">12tLs&#8230;xj2me<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/bitinfocharts.com\/bitcoin\/address\/1KbrSKrT3GeEruTuuYYUSQ35JwKbrAWJYm-nodusting\">1KbrS&#8230;AWJYm,<\/a>&#8221; moved 20,000 BTC, worth over $2 billion, to new addresses, according to data tracked by blockchain sleuth <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1940993660839215510\">Lookonchain<\/a>. The addresses received these coins on April 3, 2011, when bitcoin was priced at around 78 cents.<\/p>\n<p>Today, BTC is over $109,000, implying a staggering 140,000-fold return for the two whale addresses, which means that they have a strong incentive to liquidate their holdings. Many long-term holders have been selling their coins ever since BTC crossed above $100,000 in May.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the latest transfers were made to non-exchange addresses, which have gone silent since receiving these coins. So, it&#8217;s too early to conclude that the transfer operation is aimed at taking profits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a large whale moves in the sea, it creates ripples across the water. Similarly, when a large bitcoin (BTC) holder, often referred to as a crypto whale, moves its coins on-chain, that creates buzz on social media, prompting observers to wonder if it&#8217;s a prelude to a sale and downside price volatility. Early Friday, [&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-35170","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\/35170","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=35170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}