🔥🔥Interesting Fact🔴🔴
🤔DID ONE WHALE CAUSE BITCOIN’S 15% CRASH⁉️
- While most are attributing
#Bitcoin ’s price slump to
#ETF approval proving a ‘sell-the-news’ event, on-chain analyst @jvs_btc thinks there’s another reason…
- He believes that mass sell-pressure from a single whale wallet, that foolishly bought
$BTC at nearly $50,000 could have been behind the price tank…
“This is why (in my opinion) on Jan. 12, Bitcoin had its largest 1-day drawdown since the FTX collapse and tanked after the ETF started trading”, wrote Van Straten
✍️The Story…
- The whale in question amassed a staggering stack of more than 100,000
#BTC back in 2021.
- Unfortunately for the whale, they made their purchase at a time when
$BTC was worth a full $48,000.
- this mean their stacks amounted to some $4.8 billion at the time.
- As we know, Bitcoin’s price then collapsed to below $17,000 in December 2022.
- This led the whale to quietly #HODL their stacks, no doubt livid at the near 70% unrealized loss they were sitting on.
- Therefore, when #BTC reached $49,000 just days ago, the chance to exit was too good to pass up.
- Even with the small difference between entry and exit, the holder still made away with some $100 million in profit.
- Nonetheless, their win was the market’s loss, and the sell pressure…
“sent the market into a frenzy, combined with liquidations, "sell the news" and record loss-taking"
- Van Straten puts the story into context, explaining that “
#gbtc has only sold 27k Bitcoin with similar demand”.
- This only serves to make his theory all the more feasible…