Dormant Bitcoin Whale Moves Nearly 4,500 BTC—But the Coins Haven’t Reached an Exchange

Dormant Bitcoin Whale Moves Nearly 4,500 BTC—But the Coins Haven’t Reached an Exchange


A large Bitcoin coin moving between two secure cold-storage vault compartments image By Isaac • September 25, 2026 11:13 pm •

A Bitcoin whale just moved nearly $380 million after more than four years of dormancy. What happened next is just as important: the coins did not move again.

A transaction confirmed at 02:30:04 UTC on September 25 sent 4,499.99987779 BTC to a single new destination, according to a CryptoSlate review of the on-chain record. The largest input—4,499.99986261 BTC—had remained unspent since April 21, 2022.

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Using Coinbase’s low and high during the hour of confirmation, the output was worth roughly $379 million to $382 million. The output was still intact at the source’s later 13:33 UTC inspection.

That is the part guaranteed to grab attention. It is also where careful reporting has to begin, not end.

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