{"id":99557,"date":"2026-06-08T19:33:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=99557"},"modified":"2026-06-08T19:33:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:33:03","slug":"newbie-bitcoin-whales-took-1-77-billion-in-loss-during-price-crash-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=99557","title":{"rendered":"Newbie Bitcoin Whales Took $1.77 Billion In Loss During Price Crash: Data"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On-chain data shows the new Bitcoin whales realized a massive amount of loss during the past week as BTC has gone through its drawdown.<\/p>\n

New Bitcoin Whales Have Harvested Massive Losses Recently<\/h2>\n

As pointed out by CryptoQuant analyst Maartunn in a new post<\/a> on X, New Whales on the Bitcoin blockchain have been participating in loss-taking recently. \u201cWhales\u201d are broadly defined as investors holding more than 1,000 BTC in their wallets, excluding entities such as miners and exchanges.<\/p>\n

Whales can be divided into two cohorts on the basis of holding time: New Whales<\/a> and Old Whales<\/a>. The former, also known as Short-Term Holder (STH) Whales, include all whale-sized addresses that purchased their coins within the past 155 days. Similarly, the Old or Long-Term Holder (LTH) Whales are made up of the large investors who have held past the five-month cutoff.<\/p>\n

Statistically, the longer an investor holds onto their coins, the less likely they are to sell them in the future. As such, the New Whales with their relatively short holding time are considered to represent the weak-minded side of the market, while the Old Whales represent the resolute side.<\/p>\n

The behavior of these investors has been in line with their reputation during the recent price plunge, as the chart for the Bitcoin realized profit\/loss shared by Maartunn shows.<\/p>\n

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From the graph, it\u2019s apparent that the whales as a whole have realized a significant amount of losses in response to the bearish price action. The distribution of the realized loss, however, has heavily skewed toward the New Whales (shaded in blue in the chart).<\/p>\n

In total, the STH Whales took $1.77 billion in losses during the past week. This is a notable amount and suggests that the big-money investors who entered the market recently have panic-capitulated in the crash. Meanwhile, the LTH Whales have kept their loss-taking contained, at least for now.<\/p>\n

It only remains to be seen how the Bitcoin price will develop in the near future and how these whales will react to it. The price drawdown so far took the cryptocurrency to a low of $59,000, which isn\u2019t at too much of a distance from the Realized Price<\/a>, a metric tracking the cost basis of the average investor on the network.<\/p>\n

As the analyst pointed out in another X post<\/a>, BTC\u2019s Realized Price is currently located at $53,630.<\/p>\n

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Bitcoin hasn\u2019t gone below the Realized Price in this cycle even once, but it\u2019s possible that if the current bearish trajectory continues, a retest could occur. \u201cEvery dip below that level has historically been a no-brainer DCA zone for long-term investors,\u201d noted Maartunn.<\/p>\n

BTC Price<\/h2>\n

At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading around $63,300, down more than 13% over the past week.<\/p>\n

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On-chain data shows the new Bitcoin whales realized a massive amount of loss during the past week as BTC has gone through its drawdown. New Bitcoin Whales Have Harvested Massive Losses Recently As pointed out by CryptoQuant analyst Maartunn in a new post on X, New Whales on the Bitcoin blockchain have been participating in […]<\/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-99557","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\/99557","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=99557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}