{"id":64143,"date":"2025-12-18T06:01:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=64143"},"modified":"2025-12-18T06:01:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:01:31","slug":"bitmine-goes-shopping-as-ethereum-dips-140m-buy-spotted-on-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=64143","title":{"rendered":"BitMine Goes Shopping As Ethereum Dips: $140M Buy Spotted On-Chain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Two massive Ethereum transactions have just flowed out from FalconX, with Lookonchain linking them to ETH treasury company BitMine.<\/p>\n<h2>BitMine Has Received 48,049 Ethereum From FalconX<\/h2>\n<p>In a new <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lookonchain\/status\/2001087945223348417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">post<\/a> on X, on-chain sleuth Lookonchain has pointed out how <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/bitmine-purchases-199-million-worth-of-ethereum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener \">BitMine<\/a> appears to have acquired 48,049 ETH from a hot wallet connected to FalconX, an institutional digital asset trading platform.<\/p>\n<p>The coins transferred through two transactions to two different wallets. The larger transfer involved 31,867 ETH, while the smaller one 16,182 ETH. In total, the tokens were worth about $140.58 million at the time that they were transacted.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/G8VK2QBbMAAntyo?format=jpg&amp;name=large\" alt=\"Ethereum BitMine\" width=\"1670\" height=\"290\"><\/p>\n<p>The moves have come as Ethereum has plunged alongside the wider cryptocurrency sector, with its price dropping below the $3,000 level. Thus, it would appear possible that they are a sign of BitMine buying the dip.<\/p>\n<p>Originally a Bitcoin mining-focused company, BitMine transitioned to being an Ethereum treasury vehicle under the leadership of chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/62000-ethereum-tom-lee-revives-bullish-call-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener \">Tom Lee<\/a> in June of this year. Since then, the firm has rapidly accumulated the cryptocurrency and has established itself as the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/strategy-buys-1-billion-bitcoin-straight-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener \">Strategy<\/a>\u201d of ETH.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, BitMine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/bitmine-immersion-bmnr-announces-eth-holdings-reach-3-97-million-tokens-and-total-crypto-and-total-cash-holdings-of-13-3-billion-302641888.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">published<\/a> a press release announcing that its holdings reached 3,967,210 ETH. So far, the company hasn\u2019t made any official announcement of the latest buy, but if confirmed, it would take the total reserve past the 4 million ETH milestone.<\/p>\n<p>The firm has set a target of 5% of the total circulating Ethereum supply. At present, the company still has some ways to go before this goal is hit, but at about 3.3% of the supply now sitting in its wallets, it has certainly made significant progress.<\/p>\n<p>With holdings valued at more than $11 billion, BitMine is the second-largest cryptocurrency corporate holder in the world, only behind Strategy. Unlike Michael Saylor\u2019s firm, however, the Ethereum hoarder has its treasury sitting in the red right now. Nonetheless, if the two blockchain transactions correspond to purchases, then it\u2019s a sign that BitMine is still committed to accumulating more.<\/p>\n<p>CryptoQuant community analyst Maartunn has talked in an X <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JA_Maartun\/status\/2001019833341894770\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">post<\/a> about how the Ethereum price has changed since BitMine started its accumulation spree. It\u2019s visible in the chart that during the initial buying period, ETH witnessed some rapid growth.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/G8UM70Ja4AIa4Rm?format=jpg&amp;name=large\" alt=\"Ethereum BitMine\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\"><\/p>\n<p>Clearly, however, despite continued buying from the treasury company, the asset\u2019s price first flatlined and then declined. \u201cBig buys \u2260 sustained momentum,\u201d noted the analyst.<\/p>\n<h2>ETH Price<\/h2>\n<p>Ethereum managed to make a recovery to $3,400 last week, but the coin has once again gone through bearish momentum since then, as its price has returned to the $2,930 level.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/x\/Gd9z4IeZ\/\" alt=\"Ethereum Price Chart\" width=\"1486\" height=\"915\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two massive Ethereum transactions have just flowed out from FalconX, with Lookonchain linking them to ETH treasury company BitMine. BitMine Has Received 48,049 Ethereum From FalconX In a new post on X, on-chain sleuth Lookonchain has pointed out how BitMine appears to have acquired 48,049 ETH from a hot wallet connected to FalconX, an institutional [&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-64143","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\/64143","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=64143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}