Small Bitcoin investors stop whales from crashing BTC price below $18K

An army of small Bitcoin (BTC) investors has been fighting with their larger counterparts for months to keep the price above $18,000. Bitcoin accumulation strong among fishes Notably, there has been some on-chain divergence between so-called whales (entities that hold more than 1,000 BTC) and fishes (entities that hold relatively smaller amounts of BTC) as Bitcoin […]

'Can it get any easier?' Bitcoin whales dictate when to buy and sell BTC

Bitcoin (BTC) left both long and short traders behind in May and June, but data suggests trading it may be “easier” than many imagine. According to on-chain analytics resource Whalemap, Bitcoin whales have all but dictated market performance in recent weeks. Whales help pin Bitcoin at $30,000 In fresh analysis published on June 7, Whalemap […]

Small Bitcoin whales may be keeping BTC price from 'capitulation' — analysis

Bitcoin (BTC) could still see a major price capitulation, but more whales need to start selling first, data suggests. In one of its daily QuickTake market updates on May 27, on-chain analytics platform CryptoQuant highlighted increasingly bearish whale behavior. Small whale selling should spark “absolute capitulation” Amid widespread consensus that BTC/USD should put in a […]

Bitcoin whale holdings at 7-month highs despite warnings of BTC price crash to $20K

Bitcoin (BTC) prices could drop by 20% in the next few months, but that has not deterred its richest investors from stacking. The amount of Bitcoin held by “unique entities” with a balance of at least 1,000 BTC, or so-called “whales,” has increased to its best levels since September 2021, data on Glassnode shows. Interestingly, […]

Litecoin price risks 20% drop as LTC whale activity spikes to monthly highs

The daily transactions involving the richest Litecoin (LTC) addresses — “whales” that hold 10,000 to 1 million LTC — have jumped to their highest levels since December 2021. Litecoin selloff ahead? On-chain analytics platform Santiment detected a total of 3,458 LTC transactions worth over $100,000 on April 5, calling it “an indicator of mid-term price direction […]

Bitcoin ‘dormant’ for 7+ years moved right before BTC price dropped 5%

Bitcoin (BTC) dived $3,000 into the morning of April 1 as a widely-predicted pullback seemed to accompany fresh moves by major investors.  As revealed by the Whale Shadows indicator, over 11,000 BTC suddenly left its wallet on March 29, having previously sat there for most of a decade. Dormant coins echo December 2017 Whale Shadows, […]

3 reasons why Bitcoin price rallied toward $45K entering March

Bitcoin (BTC) extended its gains, hitting nearly $45 thousand on March 1 as interest rate speculators reduced their bets on aggressive rate hikes in 2022 and the number of whale addresses spiked amid speculations that BTC is proving itself as an apolitical safe-haven. Traders reduce half-point bets for March BTC’s price surged more than 4% […]