Power Transaction: Bitcoin Whales Move Over $6B Worth Of Crypto In A Day – Benzinga

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) whales moved over $6 billion worth of the cryptocurrency on April 22.

What Happened: According to acrypto transaction tracking websiteWhaleAlert, most of the over $6 billion worth of transactions originated from a wallet managed by a crypto asset custodian Xapo, whichwas acquiredby Coinbase Global Inc. (NASDAQ:COIN) in 2009.

The $321 million transaction transferred 6,000 Bitcoin from the custodians wallet, 251 Bitcoin ($12.5 million)were sentto an unknown wallet that received and later moved over 306,000 Bitcoin over its brief year of activity.

The second wallet received nearly 5,750 Bitcoin (over $286 million) from worlds the top cryptocurrency exchange Binance andsent itto two unknown wallets in one transaction. This last wallet initiated a series of minor but still large transactions.

The pattern was always one transaction with two outputs, one receiving the bulk of the balance and the other one no more than a couple hundred Bitcoin.

Why It Matters: The purpose and nature of those transactions are unclear, but they follow major BTC price movements.

According to CoinMarketCapdata, Bitcoin is fluctuating around $50,000 at press time. It lost around 17.75% this week.

Given the recent corrections, market participants are speculating about where Bitcoin may be headed next. Scott Minerd,the chief investment officer at Guggenheim Partners, a financial services firm managingover $310 billion,believesthat Bitcoin could go as low as $20,000.

See also:Bitcoin's Rally Not A Bubble, It's A Beginning Of Mainstream, Says Investor Bill Miller

JPMorgan strategist Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, on the other hand,suggestedthat the coin will break new lows if it does not regain $60,000 soon.

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