{"id":137,"date":"2026-01-21T09:36:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/?p=137"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:36:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:36:05","slug":"bitcoin-drops-8k-in-two-days-as-whales-keep-accumulating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/bitcoin-drops-8k-in-two-days-as-whales-keep-accumulating\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Drops $8K in Two Days as Whales Keep Accumulating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"548\" height=\"364\" data-id=\"138\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1144.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1144.jpeg 548w, https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1144-300x199.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bitcoin\u2019s price fell sharply from <strong>$95,500 to $87,500<\/strong> over the past 48 hours, wiping out more than <strong>$10,000<\/strong> since reaching a multi-month high of $98,000 last week. The sell-off has been fueled by rising geopolitical tensions between major allies, alongside a surge in long-dated Japanese government bond yields, which are weighing on risk assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While retail investors are exiting, data from <strong>Santiment<\/strong> shows smaller wallets holding under 0.01 BTC sold roughly <strong>132 BTC<\/strong> over the past nine days, representing about <strong>0.28% of their total holdings<\/strong>. In contrast, large investors commonly called whales and sharks have been buying, accumulating <strong>36,322 BTC<\/strong>, worth around <strong>$3.2 billion<\/strong> at current prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A significant portion of this accumulation may come from <strong>Michael Saylor\u2019s Strategy<\/strong>, which reportedly purchased <strong>22,305 BTC<\/strong> in the previous week alone, reinforcing the trend of corporate and institutional buying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, traditional safe-haven assets continue to thrive. <strong>Gold<\/strong> hit a fresh all-time high near <strong>$4,900\/oz<\/strong>, while <strong>silver<\/strong> approached $100, signaling that investors are shifting toward defensive plays amid market uncertainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin\u2019s price fell sharply from $95,500 to $87,500 over the past 48 hours, wiping out more than $10,000 since reaching a multi-month high of $98,000 last&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.coinsignals.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}