Over the weekend, a wallet that had been dormant for years was suddenly awakened, transferring 8,000 ether in just 2 minutes. The data on the chain shows that this "old giant whale" originally spent less than 2,500 US dollars to obtain this batch of ether coins when he participated in the Ethereum ICO in 2015, but after sleeping for 8 years, the value has now increased by more than 5,000 times to $14.7 million.
The cryptocurrency transaction tracking account Lookonchain posted a Twitter post yesterday (28th), saying that a wallet that had been sleeping for 8 years was surprised to move. The owner of the wallet tentatively transferred 1 ether to the new address at first, and about 1 minute later, Send the remaining 7,998.9 ETH to the same address.
According to the data on the chain, this giant whale obtained 8,000 ether coins when he participated in the Ethereum ICO in 2015. Today, the ether is worth more than $14 million.
The "old giant whale" suddenly transferred a large amount of ether this time, which also made the cryptocurrency community curious about the reason behind it, which led to many speculations. Some netizens believed that the owner of the wallet had just been released from prison; but some netizens joked that this giant whale was probably I was frightened by the recent negative news about Ledger, so I wanted to change to a cold wallet.
