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A report published by cryptocurrency exchange Kraken shows a substantial increase in Bitcoin whalewhale accumulation.
Since March 2020, Bitcoin’s price has shot up by more than 400%. But the high prices haven’t put large investors off. According to the report, Bitcoin whales have just kept on buying.
According to Kraken, the total number of Bitcoin whales holding over 100 Bitcoin has broken above 16,300—a figure that hasn’t been seen since March 16, 2020.
Many of these addresses represent Bitcoin’s new institutional investors, who have been increasingly attracted to the asset ever since MicroStrategy invested $425 million in Bitcoin in the summer.
The aggregate amount of Bitcoin on these addresses hit approximately 11.46 million BTC in December, representing the highest level seen throughout all of 2020. So not only are there more whales, but they are growing their stashes too.
This figure shows how major investments in Bitcoin have—at least to date—been worthwhile. Microstrategy now has over $2.6 billion worth of Bitcoin, and Square, which purchased $50 million worth of Bitcoin in October, has made a net gain of over $120 million on its purchase.
Kraken's report shows that Bitcoin balances on the exchange “stayed true to the year’s trend,” with most activity consisting of participants moving the coins off of the exchange.
This could indicate that Bitcoin owners are holding their assets for the long term and avoiding volatile markets, as Decrypt has previously reported.
11,580,00 bitcoin have not moved in over a year.
Even with a 85% increase in price during that time, those millions of bitcoin were not sold or traded.
Hodlers of last resort are insane. pic.twitter.com/KTpeDrLlOO
— Rhythm (@Rhythmtrader) December 1, 2019
There are, however, other explanations for this behaviour.
Former Federal Reserve governor and one-time Bitcoin skeptic Kevin Warsh has changed his tune on the crypto asset. Following Bitcoin’s recent surge, and changing attitudes on the regulatory side, the asset now “does make sense” in a sensible portfolio, Warsh said today. Warsh made the comment in an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin, who hosts Squawk Box on CNBC. “I think that Bitcoin does make sense as part of a portfolio in this environment, where you have the most fundamental shift in monetary...
According to the Kraken report, the combined phenomena of whale accumulation and net outflows of coins could be an indication that market participants continue to see some slight near-term upside despite the unprecedented increase in price.
Today, Bitcoin continues its unprecedented bull run, hitting the $38,000 price bracket just moments ago, boosting the value of each whale’s holdings.
Bitcoin’s price will more than double within the next six months, swelling to $250,000, according to Bitcoin billionaire and BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes, as U.S. President Donald Trump moves away from the market-rattling impact of tariffs toward other fiscal policies. “Midterm elections are coming up in the U.S.,” he told Decrypt at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas. “While the Trump administration went hard on tariffs and was taking this market pain for the last three months, that narrative has to s...
Strategy CEO Michael Saylor touted Bitcoin as a virtually foolproof path to wealth creation for “everyone”—from business owners to families, and even one’s enemies—in his speech at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas this week. During the roughly 35-minute presentation on Thursday entitled “21 Ways to Wealth,” the famous Bitcoin maxi said the world’s oldest cryptocurrency is “perfected capital," championing its “incorruptible… [and] programmable” nature. He urged his audience to buy Bitcoin to enrich them...
Back and forth headlines about the institution of President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs have led to volatility in the crypto market, now down nearly 5% in the last 24 hours according to CoinGecko. It’s been led by a pullback in alts like XRP and Solana. The pair have dropped by 4.5% and 5.1% respectively, underperforming Bitcoin in the process, which has only fallen by 1.6% to $105,370 in the same time frame. Other popular alternative crypto assets, like Dogecoin and Sui have fallen as well, dr...
