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ON-CHAIN · WHALE MOVE$1bn12,267 BTC moved on Bitcoin

12,267 BTC moves on Bitcoin in a single transfer at block 970,496

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BITCOIN · BLOCK 970,496

12,267.0233 BTC — $1,010,496,044 at the time — moved from an unknown wallet to an unknown wallet in Bitcoin block 970496, timestamped 13:33 UTC.

Large transfers between wallets are routine custody and exchange movement as often as they are anything else; what an address is used for cannot be read off the transfer alone. The last one this site recorded was on 8 Oct 2026, at $2.1M. More on what a whale is.

Source data: Bitcoin block 970496, via mempool.space and blockchain.info

This article is for information only and is not financial advice.

What the market did

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Before the headline$1,006,705,441 moved 3 minutes earliera random hour: 13.1%

Each figure is this site’s own reading, with what it was measured against. A blank is a reading nobody took, not a zero. The before-the-headline window prints the rate a RANDOM hour clears the same bar, because a hit rate without its null is not a finding.

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