Whale Alert: Whale paid a commission $3.54 for two transactions on 88 856 BTC from Xapo wallet

26 October major BTC owner made two XAPO wallet transactions, equivalent as a whole $1.1 billion. The commission compiled everything $3.54.

As reported
SERVICE WHALE ALERT, in the morning 26 October Unknown Keith made two transactions from the XAPO wallet on 45 671 BTC ($602 million) and 43 185 BTC ($570 million) For two addresses. At the same time, the owner of Bitcoin paid miners $3.54 For both transactions. Xapo wallets often send large BTC transactions, but usually their size is an order of magnitude smaller. for instance, Last week, XAPO was bred from the wallets 4 000 BTC и 1 000 BTC.

“There are several reasons for such major cryptocurrency translations. The most obvious – XAPO moves money to a cold storage for safe storage ", – Said the Director General of Myetherwallet Kosala Hemachandra (Kosala hemachandra). “Another reason may be, that the owner of this money is preparing for diversification ".

Seems to be, The movement of such a large amount of BTC did not affect the market. According to Coinmarketcap, Over the past day, the Bitcoin course has grown on 0.44%. In the morning 26 October Bitcoin traded in the area $13 050, And now the BTC has grown to $13 400.

Recall, that according to Glassnode, The number of active bitcoin addresses increased
to 388 697 In the second half of last week and approaches the historical maximum, fixed at the end 2017 of the year.

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