Bitcoin Whale Accumulates BTC 6,770, Worth $384 Million, in Less Than Two Weeks

The third-largest Bitcoin whale has been a massive BTC accumulation spree lately.

By Shomik Sen Bhattacharjee | Updated: 26 November 2021 17:10 IST

Bitcoin Whale Accumulates BTC 6,770, Worth $384 Million, in Less Than Two Weeks

One particular whale has been actively buying BTC

Highlights

Bitcoin's value has dropped over the past couple of weeks
One BTC whale has bought Bitcoin for nine straight days
Crypto whales have been making the most of the BTC dip

Bitcoin has been on a correction course over the past couple of weeks and it has turned out to be an immense opportunity for BTC whales to buy the dip, particularly one whale that added BTC 6,770 worth $384.29 million (roughly Rs. 2,878.3 crore) to their kitty in less than two weeks. The whale, who happens to be the third-largest BTC whale, has been buying Bitcoin in chunks for nine straight days, their latest purchase being on Thursday when they added another BTC 105 (worth $5.96 million/ roughly Rs. 44.63 crore) to their wallet.

This particular whale appears to be pretty active, buying and selling the asset whenever there is a sharp dip or appreciation, but given the rough patch Bitcoin has been recently, the whale has been on a BTC accumulation spree, as CryptoQuant's analyst VentureFounder commented on Twitter. Starting from November 12, the whale has made nine consecutive purchases as Bitcoin's price was declining. The first one, for BTC 1,123, came at just over $64,000 (roughly Rs. 47.94 lakh), while the last one – from Thursday, was at a price tag of $57,900 (roughly Rs. 43.3 lakh) and was for BTC 105.

Another day, another buy:

The 3rd largest #Bitcoin whale wallet added 105 more #BTC today at $57.9k for a total of $6M USD. This is the 9th straight business day of buying.

6,770 BTC added in <2 weeks. This has been the most aggressive accumulation since June/July sell-off. pic.twitter.com/qhmEhYOE27
— venturefoundΞr (@venturefounder) November 25, 2021

As per VentureFounder, this whale now has their highest wallet balance in four months, back when Bitcoin's price was around $30,000 (roughly Rs. 22.46 lakh).

Crypto analytics firm Santiment claims Bitcoin whales, in general, have been buying the dip. The firm notes on Twitter that active Bitcoin whale addresses holding between BTC 100 to BTC 10,000 have accumulated about BTC 59,000 during the past week's price dip. With Bitcoin trading at $58,498 (roughly Rs. 43.8 lakh) at the time of writing, that amount of BTC is currently worth about $3.45 billion (roughly Rs. 25,845.59 crore).

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???? If you've been waiting for #Bitcoin whales to show signs of accumulation, our data indicates it's happening once again. In the past week, a total 59k $BTC has been added to addresses that hold between 100 to 10k $BTC. This is 0.29% of the total supply. https://t.co/xbZms4GtKm pic.twitter.com/eeRrnrISRM
— Santiment (@santimentfeed) November 25, 2021

Santiment also says Bitcoin supply continues to move off of exchanges despite the recent bearish price action, which lowers the risk of a mass sell-off. Additionally, as per Santiment's weighted sentiment tracker, Bitcoin's current social sentiment is at its most bearish level in seven weeks, according to the analytics firm.

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Santiment's weighted sentiment tracker analyses the positive and negative commentary surrounding a crypto asset. The firm says prices tend to top out when social sentiment gets too high and bottom out when the metric gets too low.

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