The Billion-Dollar Bitcoin Whale That Had Been Sleeping for Years Has Woken Up: It Made a Transaction

Aug 17 2025 bitcoin


There have been notable whale movements in the cryptocurrency market in the last 24 hours. Bitcoin wallet “19D5J8”, which has been dormant for five years, transferred 3,000 BTC ($353.16 million) from its 23,969 BTC ($2.82 billion) holdings to a new wallet. The whale wallet's last transaction, on December 13, 2020, was trading at around $20,000. At the time of writing, BTC is trading around $117,000. Meanwhile, the Ethereum Foundation-affiliated wallet 0xF39d sold 7,294 ETH ($33.25 million) at an average price of $4,558 over the past three days. The wallet previously attracted attention in June 2022 when it bought 33,678 ETH ($40.2 million) at an average price of $1,193. Related News: Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Discusses the Growing Number of ETH Companies: Will They Pose a Threat? Machi, one of the industry's well-known big whales, has returned to the market. Machi opened a 5x leveraged long position in PUMP and HYPE tokens, while also maintaining long positions in ETH (25x) and BTC (40x). However, the investor is reportedly currently facing losses of approximately $5.7 million. *This is not investment advice. Continue Reading: The Billion-Dollar Bitcoin Whale That Had Been Sleeping for Years Has Woken Up: It Made a Transaction

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