One of Ripple’s over-the-counter crypto accounts has burst to life, sending 52,750,000 XRP worth $15.3 million to an unknown wallet.
🚨 52,750,000 #XRP (15,380,245 USD) transferred from Ripple OTC Distribution wallet to Unknown wallet
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) February 6, 2019
As movement from an OTC distribution wallet, it appears to be Ripple selling a portion of its XRP. Ripple owns about 55 billion XRP, which amounts to 60% of the total supply, and sells portions of its holdings to crypto exchanges and institutions on a regular basis.
Meanwhile, Bitcoin whales with about $100 million in BTC have been on the move since Thursday. The biggest transfer of 10,888 BTC, worth $37 million, was sent from Binance to an unknown wallet.
🚨 🚨 🚨 10,888 #BTC (37,161,334 USD) transferred from #Binance to Unknown wallet
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) February 6, 2019
Here’s a look at the rest of the big Bitcoin transfers in the last 36 hours. Two of the 10 transfers appear to be traders moving their BTC onto an exchange, which indicates they may be gearing up to sell.
• 3,233 BTC worth $11.0 million sent from Binance to unknown wallet
• 2,000 BTC worth $6.8 million sent from Bitfinex to unknown wallet
• 1,950 BTC worth $6.6 million sent from Bitfinex to unknown wallet
• 1,614 BTC worth $5.5 million sent from Bittrex to unknown wallet
• 4,000 BTC worth $13.6 million sent from unknown wallet to Bitfinex
• 3,000 BTC worth $10.2 million sent from unknown wallet to Bitfinex
• 3,014 BTC worth $10.2 million sent from Bitfinex to unknown wallet
• 1,499 BTC worth $5.1 million sent from Bitfinex to Bittrex
• 1,499 BTC worth $5.1 million sent from Bitfinex to Bitstamp
• 1,482 BTC worth $5.1 million sent from Bitstamp to unknown wallet
