A growing number of powerful investors in recent times have been increasing their transactional volume in Bitcoin’s market, triggering the flagship crypto to trade below the $23,500 price level.
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What you must know: Data obtained from Bitcoin Block Bot, a crypto analytic tracker, revealed that an unknown BTC whale transferred 21,200 BTC ($510M) in block 662,249 some hours ago
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Whale alert! 🐋 Someone moved 21,200 BTC ($510M) in block 662,249 https://t.co/pZNGxjzQak
— Bitcoin Block Bot (@BtcBlockBot) December 20, 2020
Why it’s happening: Global investors and crypto-traders are now cashing in on some of their profits. Though it’s often challenging in anticipating market movements in the ever-changing crypto market. Bitcoin whales have shown historically that they often determine the BTC trend.
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At the time of writing this report, the flagship crypto, traded at $23,312.26 with a daily trading volume of $36,257,814,200. BTC price is down -0.6% for the day.
What this means: Prevailing market conditions at the flagship crypto market reveal, large crypto investors and traders are moving large stacks of Bitcoins which are typically known as Bitcoin whales.
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- This means that a BTC whale is an entity (with a single Bitcoin address) owning around 1000 Bitcoins or more.
- As BTC whales accumulate BTCs, bitcoin’s circulating supply reduces, and this can weaken any bearish trend bitcoin finds itself in.
- This means that over time, it’s possible that as BTC approaches its fixed supply of 21 million, the price of BTC will go up, with BTC’s present demand factored in.
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Should you still buy: Nairametrics, however, advises against investing a large pool of capital into a volatile financial market like Bitcoin, instead an investor or trader can allocate smaller amounts periodically over time.
