{"id":98004,"date":"2020-10-26T21:31:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T18:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/whale-alert-crypto-user-moves-1-1b-in-bitcoin\/"},"modified":"2020-10-26T21:31:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T18:31:49","slug":"whale-alert-crypto-user-moves-1-1b-in-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/whale-alert-crypto-user-moves-1-1b-in-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"# Whale alert \u2014 crypto user moves $1.1B in Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Whale alert \u2014 crypto user moves $1.1B in Bitcoin  <\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjAtMTAvZWRkMmYyOTItOWNkMS00NmE3LWIwMGEtMWJhYjAyZmFiMTU5LmpwZw==.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-v-5a136f3a=\"\">With Bitcoin&#8217;s price continuing to hold close to $13,000, one anonymous trader decided now was the time to move more than $1 billion of the digital asset.<\/p>\n<p>According to on-chain data, a Bitcoin (BTC) trader\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blockchain.com\/btc\/tx\/d486aeb0e59181fd1addb4aa69ce04d638188fc1125c424899267e8ed6a8af24\">moved<\/a> more than 88,857 BTC \u2014 worth roughly $1.14 billion \u2014 for a fee of only 0.00027847 BTC, or $3.58 at time of publication. The coins were confirmed in block 654,364 on Oct. 26.<\/p>\n<p>This transaction is the largest movement of any cryptocurrency by fiat value, with the Bitfinex exchange setting the previous record in April. They transferred 161,500 BTC \u2014 $1.1 billion at the time \u2014 for a fee of only $0.68. <\/p>\n<p>Neither of these transactions were actually the largest amount of Bitcoin to ever be moved. That honor goes to a 550,000 BTC transaction <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blockchair.com\/bitcoin\/transaction\/29a3efd3ef04f9153d47a990bd7b048a4b2d213daaa5fb8ed670fb85f13bdbcf\">made<\/a> on November 16, 2011 by the Mt. Gox exchange. Worth $1.32 million at that time, that amount of Bitcoin could be liquidated for more than $7 billion today.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story is developing and will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/whale-alert-crypto-user-moves-1-1b-in-bitcoin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;# Whale alert \u2014 crypto user moves $1.1B in Bitcoin &#8221; With Bitcoin&#8217;s price continuing to hold close to $13,000, one anonymous trader decided now was the time to move more than $1 billion of the digital asset. According to on-chain data, a Bitcoin (BTC) trader\u00a0moved more than 88,857 BTC \u2014 worth roughly $1.14 billion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2020-10\/edd2f292-9cd1-46a7-b00a-1bab02fab159.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74899,74880,117],"class_list":["post-98004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bitcoin-adoption","tag-transactions","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}