Data shows Bitcoin sells are being scooped up by BTC whales

Indications of a dip began to show over the weekend when Bitcoin failed to hold the crucial $38.8k level. Since then, a continuation of the downtrend today sees a massive 20% drop, sending the bulls packing.

Despite that, many remain in the crypto space defiant, regardless of the ensuing fear that is spreading. @TraderKoz addressed the noobies specifically by saying this is an experience for them to learn from.

“To those who joined crypto in the late 2020s, this was probably your first real dump.

Don’t worry, you’ll get used to it. You probably lost money, but you gained experience.

Learn from it so you aren’t caught with your pants down by the next one.”

Others, including @Pentoshi, made light of the situation by describing his numbness to the pain of being 25% down on his portfolio.

This, he jokingly said, is a situation borne from “years of complicit abuse” from the leading cryptocurrency.

Regardless of that, @Pentoshi signed off on a more positive note by saying, in the end, Bitcoin always wins.

Bitcoin whales appear to “gobble up” the sell-off

Bitcoin wallet data from on-chain market intelligence firm Glassnode shows whales are buying the dip.

As noted by Protocol Specialist at Bison Trails Co, Elias Simos, addresses with more than 1,000 Bitcoin grew 4%, from 2,261 at the start of last December, to 2,352 as of today.

Conversely, the biggest relative decrease occurred in the number of wallets holding less than 0.01 BTC. This supports @TraderKoz’s presumption that noobies and smaller investors are feeling the most pain right now.

The data shows a decrease of over five hundred thousand wallets, holding less than 0.01 BTC, in the 40 days to today.

Simos concluded that, despite the market sell-off, whales are diligently accumulating Bitcoin sold by smaller investors as they liquidate their holdings.

However, Luca Cosentino critiqued the validity of Simos’ conclusion. He pointed out that whales can split their holdings into smaller wallets. Therefore, the hypothesis that the less than 0.01 BTC category relates only to small investors is dubious.

“Custodians hold funds for their clients. Having a lot of funds is often a sign that that address does not belong to a whale (whales often split into multiple addresses).“

All the same, there is no such doubt in the appetite to accumulate more Bitcoin by the whales.