Vieja Ballena moves the rest of its 80,000 BTC, sends USD $ 4.8 billion to Galaxy Digital

By Hannah Pérez

The Bitcoin whale that has been monopolizing the headlines during the last weeks moved their final coins, possibly preparing for a sale. The astronomical gain of 15,700,000% seems like a good incentive.

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• The whale with 80,000 BTC undermined in 2011 finishes moving its enormous stash.
• He sent the remaining 40,191 BTC to Galaxy Digital addresses, possibly for sale.
• The unknown entity woke up at the beginning of the month by moving more than USD $ 9,000 million.
• They have no more bitcoins to move. Astronomical gain possibly inspired her to sell.

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Another day of the bullish cycle, another day of whale movements.

The whale of Bitcoin Antigu Bitcoins (BTC) –Possibly preparing to sell.

At the beginning of the month we report on the unprecedented transactions of a series of addresses of Bitcoin, –that are speculated belong to the same entity–which had remained without movement for 14 years. After several days of agitation, Now that whale has sent its 40,191 BTC remaining, valued at USD $ 4.8 billion to Galaxy Digital.

The data of Arkham Intelligence They show that the address “BC1QS … F4AU0” moved the BTC in lots to an address belonging to Galaxy Digital in 15 transactions from 21:40 UTC on Thursday. This after the funds, dispersed in four different directions, were consolidated in one direction.

Possible sale of old bitcoin on the road

The chain analyst Lookonchainthat he noticed the movement on Thursday and who had been following the whale closely suggested that the reason for the transactions could be an attempt to sell through the services of Galaxythis taking into account the recent historical maximum price of Bitcoin of USD $ 123,000.

The Bitcoin Og with 80.009 $ BTC($ 9.46b) Transferred The Remaining 40,192 $ BTC($ 4.77b) to #Galaxydigital in the past 3 hours.https: //t.co/wu54Scrjn8 pic.twitter.com/irbredbick

– Lookonchain (@lookonchain) July 18, 2025

OTC (sale at the counter) services of Galaxy Digital They offer customers a private alternative to negotiate large funds, directly avoiding public exchanges.

Lookonchain He had supported this hypothesis based on chain data. On Tuesday, the whale had moved another lot of 40,010 BTC to Galaxy Digitalwhich subsequently went to centralized exchanged deposit addresses such as Coinbase, Gemini and Bitstampas well as several other directions without labeling, indicating a possible download.

The baptized ‘Ballena OG’ began to wake up on July 4, when it moved approximately 80,000 BTC for a value of USD $ 9.6 billion in lots of 10,000 BTC to eight new directions. This was his first activity since April 2011.

Astronomical gains are a valid incentive

While it is not known who or who are behind the 80,000 BTC, or what is the reason for the movements, the new price level of Bitcoin In the graphics it could be a good incentive to collect profits. Especially taking into account that those Bitcoins They have been astronomically since their price less than 1 dollar per currency 14 years ago.

The term “OG” refers to people or entities that have been involved in the industry from their early stages (usually from the first years of Bitcoinaround 2009-2013, or the call was Satoshi). They are known as whales to addresses, people or entities with huge amounts of cryptocurrency –commonly from 1,000 BTC onwards.

At the price stop of USD $ 123,000 per BTC, this represents an approximate gain of 15,700,000% For the whale.

Merchants closely monitor the whales of Bitcoin of the Satoshi era in search of signals about the feeling of the market, particularly when the BTC in its wallets has not moved for several years. Some observers had speculated that a pioneer miner of Bitcoin He was the protagonist of the massive movements of these weeks.

BTC changes hands around USD $ 119,400, 1.4% higher in 24 hours, according to price data Coinmarketcap at the time of publication of this article.

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Hannah Estefanía Pérez / Diariobitcoin

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