Bitcoin Whale Owen Gunden Dumps Entire $1.3b Stack As Institutions...

Bitcoin OG Owen Gunden sells $1.3 billion in BTC as retail panic grows, while institutional ownership of Bitcoin ETFs climbs to 40% despite market fear.

Owen Gunden, one of the richest early Bitcoin holders, has sold his entire Bitcoin position as retail investors flee the market and institutions continue increasing their share of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds.

The wallet tagged as Owen Gunden by blockchain data platform Arkham transferred his last 2,499 Bitcoin (BTC) worth $228 million to cryptocurrency exchange Kraken on Thursday.

In total, Gunden’s wallet has sold 11,000 Bitcoin worth around $1.3 billion since Oct. 21, liquidating his entire Bitcoin holdings, according to Arkham.

Gunden’s transactions come amid growing concerns over the end of the bull market, with Bitcoin market conditions deteriorating to their “most bearish” level during the current cycle. CryptoQuant’s Bull Score Index has declined to 20/100, or extreme bearish, Cointelegraph reported earlier on Thursday.

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Gunden is the eighth-richest person in crypto, with a net worth of about $561 million according to Arkham’s list of the top crypto millionaires.

Gunden was an early Bitcoin arbitrage trader on exchanges like Tradehill and the now-defunct Mt. Gox. He traded 10s of thousands of Bitcoin on the exchange when it was still operational until 2014, building his onchain wealth.

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Meanwhile, the institutional ownership of US spot Bitcoin ETFs continues rising to new highs, despite retail fears over the end of the bull market cycle.

Source: CoinTelegraph