Bitcoin sees unprecedented reawakening of inactive whales

In 2025, a record number of old whale wallets moved their ￰0￱ of the big shifts came from wallets aged over 7 ￰1￱ series of price peaks for BTC invited old whale wallets to move their coins. A record number of old BTC whales moved coins in ￰2￱ transfers originated from wallets aged over 7 years, with the occasional transaction from wallets dated 2013 or even ￰3￱ of the moves came from OG whales, including notorious hack wallets and former ￰4￱ of the biggest transfers was for 80K BTC after 14 years of holding, from a still-unidentified ￰5￱ recently, a whale from the Satoshi mining era sold more of their remaining ￰6￱ whale’s wallets held up to 8K BTC, and are down to 3,850 coins after sending 150 BTC to ￰7￱ of the coins moved went to exchanges, but in 2025, there were more ways to tap the value of ￰8￱ whales found themselves sitting on what looked like hefty treasuries, and some went on to support treasury ￰9￱ others, lending was a way to tap the value of BTC without selling ￰10￱ price peaks of BTC incited more old whales to move their coins, either for security or to realize profits. |