Anonymous Crypto Wallet Moves $51M Worth Of Ethereum

What happened: $51,363,047 worth of Ethereum ETH/USD was just moved between 2 anonymous cryptocurrency wallets in a single transaction.

This mysterious person's Ethereum wallet address has been identified as: 0xf9225f3288f6cb0d0f80a5561e73102565e8bd8c

$51 million worth of Ethereum was sent to an unknown recipient, with Ethereum wallet address: 0xdbfc4549b325b6f00013a3861b87aab6696fdbee

Why it matters: Cryptocurrency whales that own millions of dollars in Ethereum tend to move markets single-handedly. If the whale decides to exit this Ethereum position, there could be enough market impact to push down the price of ETH. It takes about $15 to $30 million of sell pressure to move the price of Ethereum down 2% on any given exchange.

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According to Glassnode, there are 94,503 Ethereum wallets with over $100,000 in ETH.

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Price Action: Ethereum is up 7% in the past 24 hours.

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Public Blockchain data sourced from Whale Alerts Twitter.

This article was generated by Benzinga's automated content engine and reviewed by an editor.