ON-CHAIN · WHALE MOVE $64.6M 906 BTC moved on Bitcoin BYTENEWS.IO 906 BTC moves on Bitcoin in a single transfer
1 independent sourcefirst seen 20 Aug 2026 · 08:25 UTC published 20 Aug 2026 · 08:26 UTC latency 2 min
Correction filed 2026-08-20
From publication on 20 August 2026 until 21 August 2026, this story had no address of its own. A different Bitcoin transfer, published on 15 August, produced an identical headline and therefore an identical URL, and that URL served the 15 August event. A reader who followed this story's canonical ID, BYTE-2026-08-20-0774, was shown the 15 August transaction on a page printing BYTE-2026-08-15-1017 — a different canonical ID than the one they had asked for. The Internet Archive preserved that wrong pairing in a snapshot taken on 20 August at 08:52 UTC, so it is on the public record and is not corrected by this change alone. This story now has its own address. The 15 August story keeps the original one, because it was published first and its URL was the one that worked. Slugs are now made unique when they are minted, and the canonical-ID resolver no longer resolves through them.
905.726 BTC — $64,574,640 at the time — moved from unknown wallet to unknown wallet in Bitcoin block 963273, timestamped 08:25 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 20 Aug 2026, at $1M. More on what a whale is .
Source data: Bitcoin block 963273, via mempool.space and blockchain.info
This article is for information only and is not financial advice.
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