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Bitcoin slides to $107K as whales offload $4B over weekend

BTC fell to selling pressure, after several high-profile whales realized as much as $4B in sales over the ￰1￱ slid to the $107,000 range, with one whale shedding 10K coins ￰2￱ BTC market had to absorb selling from several high-profile ￰3￱ whales still found immediate demand for their coins, but the selling volumes pressured the price to the $107,000 range. Overall, whales are still holding up the trend of net accumulation. However, short-term selling, especially from old and closely watched wallets, still has the ability to shake the ￰4￱ realized profits at the end of August, and have been selling at a higher baseline in the past few ￰5￱ whales realized profits at a higher baseline, with significant selling as of August 25. |) September 1, 2025 The whale has now depleted all the balance from the selling wallet, removing one price pressure from the ￰6￱ short-term spot selling can sway the price, on-chain data shows the selling is mostly a turnover between whale wallets, as accumulation ￰7￱ is also changing hands, moving into the reserves of different ￰8￱ overall retail and mid-range wallets are still holding, the recent price moves show concentration in the hands of one entity can sway the market.

A move of thousands of dollars can also produce significant liquidations, leading to additional alerts on causing deliberate liquidations. ETH-buying whale continues to shift from BTC A relatively old whale with five-year old holdings and an initial balance of $5.5B continued to send out BTC through ￰9￱ whale is part of the trend where Hyperliquid took over a larger part of BTC and ETH ￰10￱ whale continued to sell Bitcoin in the new week, shifting the funds into ETH derivative positions and spot ￰11￱ Bitcoin OG has sold another 2,000 $BTC ($215M) and bought 48,942 $ETH ($215M) spot over the past 4 ￰12￱ total, he has bought 886,371 $ETH ($4.07B). ￰0￱ ￰13￱ — Lookonchain (@lookonchain) September 1, 2025 Following the latest price moves, Bitcoin still recovered above $108,000, while ETH is in the $4,300 ￰14￱ Cryptopolitan reported , the same whale prepared to buy $1.1B in ETH in the past week, though still not causing a new all-time high for the ￰15￱ the smaller weekend seller wallet, this whale has remaining balance and may continue to affect the market in the coming ￰16￱ this stage, the BTC relative strength index (RSI) is down to 37 points, from a recent peak above 76 points in ￰17￱ coin is feeling pressure from anonymous whales with wallets aged 3-5 years, with some short-term buyers also seeking to sell during minor ￰18￱ Bitcoin fear and greed index is back in the ‘fear’ zone, meaning whales are less willing to take aggressive long positions in fears of ￰19￱ the same time, the past month showed ongoing accumulation by big addresses, with a 45% rise in whale ￰20￱ smartest crypto minds already read our ￰21￱ in?

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