What happened: $309,656,599 worth of Ethereum ETH/USD was just moved between 2 anonymous cryptocurrency wallets in a single transaction.
This mysterious person's Ethereum wallet address has been identified as: 0x23a644df031f76802b82ff6cc81a6ddb73599729
$309 million worth of Ethereum was sent to an unknown recipient, with Ethereum wallet address: 0x05f7cb58d187d0024123c1c2a67b00be44598828
Why it matters: Cryptocurrency whales that own millions of dollars in Ethereum tend to move markets single-handedly. If the whale decides to exit this Ethereum position, there could be enough market impact to push down the price of ETH. It takes about $15 to $30 million of sell pressure to move the price of Ethereum down 2% on any given exchange.
You can view more details about the transaction here
According to Glassnode, there are 74,331 Ethereum wallets with over $100,000 in ETH.
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Price Action: Ethereum is down 0% in the past 24 hours.
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Public Blockchain data sourced from Whale Alerts Twitter.
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