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Bitcoin’s summer season melt-up has come to an abrupt halt. The benchmark cryptocurrency slipped from an intraday peak above $119,000 late Thursday to commerce as little as $115,800 in European morning hours, its weakest print in a fortnight. The two.7 percentage-point slide adopted an unmistakable on-chain sign: Galaxy Digital quietly pushed greater than 10,000 BTC—price about $1.18 billion on the time—onto main exchanges in lower than eight hours, in line with wallet-tracking agency Lookonchain.
Galaxy Digital Triggers Bitcoin Slide
“Bitcoin sell-off nonetheless underway! Galaxy Digital deposited one other 2,850 BTC ($330.44M) to exchanges,” Lookonchain warned on X within the early European morning hours, noting that the switch originated from a Satoshi-era whale that re-awakened this month. Previous to that, the analytics account posted an alert: “Observe that Galaxy Digital has deposited over 10,000 BTC ($1.18B) to exchanges previously 8 hours!” Screenshots of Arkham Intelligence dashboards confirmed a collection of multi-million-dollar transactions converging on Binance, Bybit and OKX.
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The flows are the most recent chapter in a saga that started on 4 July, when an deal with dormant since 2011 began chopping an 80,009-BTC trove into 10,000-coin tranches. By 18 July the ultimate 40,191 BTC—price $4.8 billion—had landed at Galaxy, a transfer many analysts interpreted as a possible sale.
That potential is now actuality. On-chain information exhibits Galaxy sends Bitcoin to numerous crypto exchanges virtually each minute to promote it. The BTC value is reacting with textbook symmetry: spot BTC slipped by $118,000 through the Asian session earlier than knifing to $116,000 as London desks opened, wiping roughly $55 billion from bitcoin’s market worth in simply 4 hours.
Galaxy Digital, run by billionaire Michael Novogratz, provided no public remark on the time of writing and has not filed any Kind 8-Okay which may point out a balance-sheet reshuffle. The agency’s most up-to-date media look got here on CNBC yesterday, the place Novogratz repeated his view that Ether may “outperform” bitcoin over the following few months,” however didn’t trace at near-term promoting.
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Whereas motives stay opaque, market spectators have been fast to theorise. “Appears to be like just like the Bitcoin selloff is Galaxy Digital market dumping from a batch of 80K BTC. Could possibly be as a result of they have been requested to for a consumer, one thing associated to Saylor, or transferring into Ethereum as Novogratz instructed ETH might transfer greater than BTC within the subsequent few months (at present on CNBC). Not apprehensive. They’ve about 27K left to promote (in the event that they’re promoting the complete 80k), folks purchase, life goes on, it continues upwards,” the crypto-focused account Autism Capital posted by way of X.
Capriole Investments founder Charles Edwards commented by way of X: “On the identical time that this OG whale is dropping 10K slugs into spot markets at present, we have now 30K of leveraged longs opening on the dip. Not a value prediction and adjustments nothing mid- to long-term, however this isn’t an important signal for the short-term value motion. Even when all 80K BTC are nuked, if Treasury Firm demand stays constant, it’ll all be consumed in a pair weeks.”
At press time, BTC traded at $115,476.
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