On Tuesday, October 18, researchers from cryptocurrency analytics platform Cryptoquant identified an outflow of 48,000 bitcoins coming from trading platform Coinbase Pro. According to the researcher’s summary of the situation, a significant part of the money was old coins.
Whale transfers 48000 bitcoins in a coiled market
While Bitcoin (BTC) is trading under the $20K region and trading sideways, observers have seen a number of older coins moving on a chain. The onchain movement comes at a time when market volatility is expected. For example, Glassnode Insights’ latest “A Coiled Spring” report predicts some bitcoin price volatility in the near future.
“Bitcoin market primed for volatility, with realized volatility and implied options dropping to historic lows,” Glassnode wrote on October 17. . There is likely to be volatility on the horizon, and bitcoin price rarely stays flat for long.”
The next day, researchers from the crypto-analysis platform Cryptoquant chirp That 48,000 dormant bitcoins moved to the chain on Tuesday. “Idle Bitcoin has moved from Coinbase Pro,” Cryptoquant said on Twitter. “48K BTC flow comes from Coinbase Pro and is worth in dollars [$940 million]. “
Cryptoquant said that a “significant portion” of onchain spending originated from batches of really old bitcoins, at least three to five years old. Researchers estimate that approximately 32,000 BTC of 48K are aged between three and five years. Cryptoquant explained on Tuesday that “further investigation is needed to conclude whether it was an inflow of the exchange, being sent to a new wallet, or just a clean outflow.”
In an update after the initial post, Cryptoquant clarified that 8,000 BTC was deposited on Coinbase shortly after. “The transactions were partially split into batches of 122 BTC. We saw this many times during the 2021 bull run, right? CryptoQuant added.
11-year-old ‘sleeping bitcoin’ woke up after years of sleep
In addition to the 48,000 coins moving on the chain with the vast majority of bitcoins dormant, some addresses from 2011 have sent a few batches of so-called “sleeper bitcoins” this month. Btcparser.com detected dormant bitcoins moving from an address created on May 14, 2011, when they moved on October 10, 2022, at block height of 758,046.
On the same day, an inactive address created on October 24, 2011, 40 BTC was transferred. Seven days later, a batch of 10.29 dormant bitcoins was moved from an address created on September 20, 2011, for the first time in 11 years.
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Originally published at San Jose News Bulletin
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