Bitcoin whales connection with Bitcoin price has as good a secret as the fact that the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto is considered a secret in the cryptocurrency sphere despite Craig Wrights repeated claims.
Interestingly enough, the selling trend, as reported by Whale Alert, is not very surprisingly of a buying spree since the flash rise to $10379 on the 11th of February.
The first major buy off came right after the flash rise that took the Bitcoin price over $400 high in a matter of minutes
900 #BTC (8,773,163 USD) transferred from #Binance to unknown wallet
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) February 11, 2020
Since the rise, heavy Bitcoin whales movement has been recorded by Whale Alert, where different transactions from exchanges to wallets have been observed. As many as 12 buys have been recorded in the past 12 hours alone, ranging from 534 Bitcoin to 1000 Bitcoins.
On the other hand, only one major sell-off has been witnessed in the past 12 hours on the Whale Alert service worth 2700 Bitcoin.
🚨 🚨 2,700 #BTC (27,577,933 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to #Bitfinex
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) February 11, 2020
Bitcoin Whales after the flash rise
While in the same duration, 634 BTC were bought from Binance in the first transaction after the sell-off. This was followed by a purchase of 1000 BTC from Bitfinex and a set of 552, 550, 553, 551, 554, 555, and 1400 Bitcoin from Binance.
While the largest transaction since the flash rise was of 3060 BTC originating from Coinbase to an unknown wallet.
🚨 🚨 3,060 #BTC (29,949,097 USD) transferred from #Coinbase to unknown wallet
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) February 11, 2020
An interesting movement, which is also the largest among all the transactions, is a set of two transactions, both originating and ending up into unknown wallets. The smaller of the two transactions was worth 12000 BTC that were moved between wallets.
🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 12,000 #BTC (118,852,619 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) February 11, 2020
While the second first, but the larger transaction of 24,494 BTC worth 241 million United States dollars was observed an hour prior.
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 24,494 #BTC (241,721,010 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) February 11, 2020
Although the BTC whales seem to be manipulating the market into a spree that would allow the king of cryptocurrency to sustain above the $10000 mark at the moment, price charts are telling a slightly different story as well.
In any case, the fact of the matter remains that as soon as the Bitcoin whales start pulling strings, Bitcoin is expected to fall back to the pre-flash rise levels since the retail market would not be able to bear the higher constraints at the current price levels.
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