3,000 BTC moves on Bitcoin in a single transfer at block 970,396

story Reported 07 Oct 2026 · 21:57 UTC · Summarized 07 Oct 2026 · 22:02 UTC · 1 source

1 independent sourcefirst seen 07 Oct 2026 · 21:57 UTCpublished 07 Oct 2026 · 22:02 UTClatency 6 min

BITCOIN · BLOCK 970,396

3,000.0018 BTC — $249,498,148 at the time — moved from an unknown wallet to an unknown wallet in Bitcoin block 970396, timestamped 21:57 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 7 Oct 2026, at $1.4M. More on what a whale is.

Source data: Bitcoin block 970396, via mempool.space and blockchain.info

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

What the market did

Price reactionnot recorded

Independent outletsnot recorded

Reports per hournot recorded

Noveltynot recorded

Before the headlinenothing above $100,000,000 in the 60 minutes beforea 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.

Tags: on-chain, whale move, on-chain

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BYTE NEWS. "3,000 BTC moves on Bitcoin in a single transfer at block 970,396." 2026-10-07. https://bytenews.io/s/3-000-btc-moves-on-bitcoin-in-a-single-transfer-at-block-970-396/ (BYTE-2026-10-07-2236).

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BYTE NEWS. (2026, 10, 07). 3,000 BTC moves on Bitcoin in a single transfer at block 970,396. Retrieved from https://bytenews.io/s/3-000-btc-moves-on-bitcoin-in-a-single-transfer-at-block-970-396/

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  title  = {3,000 BTC moves on Bitcoin in a single transfer at block 970,396},
  author = {{BYTE NEWS}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {BYTE-2026-10-07-2236},
  url    = {https://bytenews.io/s/3-000-btc-moves-on-bitcoin-in-a-single-transfer-at-block-970-396/}
}

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