{"id":25396,"date":"2025-07-17T15:16:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/early-bitcoin-whale-moves-another-40000-btc\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T15:16:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:16:43","slug":"early-bitcoin-whale-moves-another-40000-btc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/early-bitcoin-whale-moves-another-40000-btc\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Bitcoin Whale Moves Another 40,000 BTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wallet associated with an &#8220;early&#8221; Bitcoin whale has transferred 40,192 BTC to a new address. The transaction amounted to $4.77 billion, according to Arkham.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-07-17-142306.webp\" alt=\"\u0421\u043d\u0438\u043c\u043e\u043a \u044d\u043a\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0430 2025-07-17 142306\" class=\"wp-image-262213\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/intel.arkm.com\/explorer\/address\/bc1qs4nzm0je7wqfyfmqr4ht4upyzy57vc95nf4au0\">Arkham<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On July 4, the owner of the first cryptocurrency showed activity for the first time since 2011. He <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/8-6-billion-bitcoin-transfer-sparks-debate-over-owners-identity\">distributed<\/a> 80,000 BTC to eight new addresses.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately half of this amount was sent to two wallets on July 15, which analysts linked to Galaxy Digital.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE: The Bitcoin OG with 80,009 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a>($9.46B) has transferred 40,009 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a>($4.68B) to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GalaxyDigital?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GalaxyDigital<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GalaxyDigital?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GalaxyDigital<\/a> has directly deposited 6,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a>($706M) into <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Binance?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Binance<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bybit?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bybit<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8Z4m7CAQ0i\">https:\/\/t.co\/8Z4m7CAQ0i<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4fpZhBM5uY\">https:\/\/t.co\/4fpZhBM5uY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gdl6f8wSZw\">pic.twitter.com\/gdl6f8wSZw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lookonchain (@lookonchain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1945045973350187134?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The remaining 40,192 BTC were likely consolidated by the whale into a single new wallet. The funds came from four addresses to which they were initially distributed on July 4. The transfer was preceded by two test transactions of 1 BTC each.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts at Lookonchain suggested that the first batch of coins was being prepared by the whale for sale through Galaxy Digital&#8217;s over-the-counter service.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Bitcoin OG with 80,009 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a>($9.46B) just transferred another 40,192 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a>($4.77B) to a new wallet bc1qs4 and may continue to sell.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EUM3WzP46n\">https:\/\/t.co\/EUM3WzP46n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UjX7fBpbv7\">https:\/\/t.co\/UjX7fBpbv7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EEdS5eEZod\">pic.twitter.com\/EEdS5eEZod<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lookonchain (@lookonchain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1945661229072285764?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;If subsequent transfers from the new address are also directed to structures like Galaxy Digital, it may indicate that the whale will continue to sell,&#8221; experts noted.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The movement of funds <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/8-6-billion-bitcoin-transfer-sparks-debate-over-owners-identity\">sparked debates<\/a> about the owner&#8217;s identity. Theories included Roger Ver, the CIA, and Satoshi Nakamoto himself.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, from January to March, approximately 62,800 BTC, which <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/cryptoquant-observes-awakening-of-dormant-bitcoins\">had been dormant for over seven years<\/a>, &#8220;woke up&#8221; and changed wallets, according to CryptoQuant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wallet associated with an &#8220;early&#8221; Bitcoin whale has transferred 40,192 BTC to a new address. The transaction amounted to $4.77 billion, according to Arkham. Data: Arkham. On July 4, the owner of the first cryptocurrency showed activity for the first time since 2011. He distributed 80,000 BTC to eight new addresses. Approximately half of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1227],"class_list":["post-25396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-cryptocurrency-transactions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"70","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}