A mysterios buyer bought 96,000 Bitcoins in the past week. ( $900MM )

in #bitcoin7 years ago

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According to a tweet, a bitcoin address bought almost $1 billion worth of bitcoin during a dip in its prices recently. The buyer first bought bitcoin worth $344 million between February 9th and February 12th, when its price traversed the range between $8,500 and $8,900. The buyer doubled down on bitcoin by purchasing 41,000 coins, just before its price hit $10,000.

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The price of a single bitcoin briefly crossed $10,000 yesterday as details emerged about a mysterious buyer’s bet on the cryptocurrency

The tweet will provide further ammunition to critics of the cryptocurrency. In the past, detractors have noted that despite bitcoin’s claims of being decentralized, its price is susceptible to being manipulated by "bitcoin whales," or investors and traders who hold large stashes of the virtual currency.

Meanwhile, noted cryptocurrency analyst Tom Lee, who has a $25,000 price target for bitcoin by the end of this year, has predicted a bump in its prices starting in July

https://www.investopedia.com/news/bitcoin-price-retreats-10k-mysterious-buyer-emerges/

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