💣 80,000 Ancient BTC Just Moved

An ancient Bitcoin whale just woke up after 14 years and quietly moved over $8.6 billion worth of BTC and it might only be the beginning. Let’s see everything happening behind the scenes.

Here’s what we got for you today:

• ⭐ 5 Things You Shouldn’t Miss

• 🐳 8 Ancient BTC Wallets Just Woke Up After 14 Yea …

• 😰 Binance Pump Effect Died? New Listings Now Only …

• 🤡 Meme Of The Day

⭐ 5 Things You Shouldn’t Miss

📉 $BTC.X ( ▲ 6.37% ) is trading near $109K, close to all-time highs. But on-chain is nearly dead. Mempool holds just 5K–15K transactions per day, down 90% from late 2024. Volatility hit a 20-month low. Most of these assets are off-chain. They don’t show up on the network. Institutions rule the game. BTC is in a fake boom.

📢 From July 14–18, the U.S. House will hold a full “Crypto Week” to review and vote on 3 key crypto bills. These bills reflect Trump’s digital asset agenda. But Democrats criticize it as a move to build a “crypto empire,” citing projects like $USD1.X ( ▲ 0.68% ) , $TRUMP.X ( ▲ 9.63% ) and $MELANIA.X ( ▲ 11.38% ) tokens. If all 3 pass, the U.S. could set a global legal benchmark for crypto.

🔥 LetsBONK, a memecoin launchpad, has officially surpassed pump.fun in: Number of new tokens launched + Tokens that “graduated” on Solana. LetsBONK now owns 54.4% memecoin market share (vs. 35.5% for pump.fun). Why? A breakout memecoin, $USELESS.X ( ▼ 3.93% ) , hit $280M market cap shortly after launch, fueling volume.

📛 On July 6, TON Foundation announced: Stake $100K in $TONCOIN.X ( ▼ 1.9% ) for 3 years and get a 10-year UAE Golden Visa with a one-time $35K fee, no real estate, no income proof, and approval in 7 weeks. But UAE Government said they had no special visa for crypto holders. Staking doesn’t guarantee a visa! Their marketing is misleading.

🧨 Elon Musk: His newly formed America Party will support Bitcoin from day one & there’s no hope left for fiat. Musk’s America Party isn’t official yet, no Federal Election Commission filing, no platform released. But it’s already attracting names like Mark Cuban and Anthony Scaramucci.

🐳 8 Ancient BTC Wallets Just Woke Up After 14 Years, Moved 80,000 BTC

🕵️‍♂️ Dormant Since 2011, a $2.18B Bitcoin Whale Just Woke Up

On July 4, 2025, on-chain analysts spotted 8 old wallets reactivating. On April 3, 2011, the original wallet 1HqXB…gDwcK distributed 23,377.83 BTC to 3 wallets:

• Two wallets received 10,000 BTC each

• One received 3,377.83 BTC

2 Bitcoin wallets that received 10,000 BTC each way back in 2011 - when BTC was just $0.78 - suddenly became active this weekend.

→ That’s 20,000 BTC in total, worth about $2.18 billion today. A mind-blowing gain of 13.9 million percent from the original $15,600 investment.

For over 14 years, the two 10K-BTC wallets (12tLs…xj2me and 1KbrS…AWJYm) stayed completely silent. Until the night of July 3rd and early morning of July 4th, 2025, when the whale moved all the BTC within 30 minutes of each other.

As of now, the new receiving wallets haven’t made any moves. No sales. No exchanges. Just transfers.

🔄 This Isn’t the First Time Old Bitcoin Wallets Woke Up

The recent whale move wasn’t an isolated case. Back in September–October 2024, the crypto community saw a wave of ancient wallets from 2012 suddenly spring back to life.

On October 29, 2024, Whale Alert flagged a wallet that had been inactive for 12 years.
It held 749 BTC and quietly moved 159 BTC, worth over $11 million at the time.

Just days earlier, on October 25, another wallet from the Satoshi era holding 399 BTC moved 100 BTC to Bitstamp, totaling over $27 million in value.

At the time, Bitcoin was trading around $70,000. And while these movements sparked fears of profit-taking, they surprisingly did the opposite.

Instead of triggering a dump, they fueled a fresh wave of FOMO and just over a month later, Bitcoin broke $100,000 for the first time in history.

Since late September 2024, there’s been a noticeable trend: Multiple Bitcoin wallets from 2009–2011, silent for over a decade, have suddenly started moving coins again.

Most of these BTC came from early block rewards, leading many to believe they may belong to OG miners or even people close to Satoshi Nakamoto himself.

🧊 BUT: Bitcoin OG Moves $4.35B After 14 Years of Silence

As on July 4, 2025, the whale activity isn’t slowing down. Less than 12 hours after two 2011-era wallets moved 20,000 BTC, 6 more ancient wallets just woke up, all tied to the same Bitcoin OG.

On-chain data from Lookonchain confirms:

This OG controls at least 8 wallets holding a total of 80,009 BTC, worth around $8.69 billion.

The details:

• 2 wallets received 20,000 BTC on April 2, 2011, when BTC was $0.78
  → Cost at the time: $15,600
  → Value today at ~$107,800/BTC: $2.18 billion

• 6 wallets received 60,009 BTC on May 4, 2011, when BTC was $3.37
  → Total cost: ~$202,000
  → Current value: $6.52 billion

4 of the 8 wallets became active. A total of 40,000 BTC (≈ $4.35B) was moved. The remaining 4 wallets are still untouched for now.

And overnight, a major Bitcoin whale moved 1,550 BTC (worth over $160M) to Binance with the transfers broken into smaller chunks.

→ The timing and pattern suggest this whale may be linked to the “ancient wallet” activity, the same OG addresses that just woke up after 14 years.

It’s still unclear what this $8.69B Bitcoin whale intends to do. Is this a massive profit-taking move? Or a strategic shuffle before pushing BTC even higher?

Whatever the endgame is, one thing’s for sure: Moving this much Bitcoin, this fast, is shaking investor confidence and sparking fear across the crypto space.

😰 Binance Pump Effect Died? New Listings Now Only Bring Losses?

Just a few years ago, getting listed on Binance was a guaranteed win. New token? Boom, price surge, trading volume spike, massive exposure.

For many young crypto projects, a Binance listing was a “life-changing” milestone → seen as a stamp of legitimacy and quality.

Back then, Binance was the dream. A listing meant you’d passed a strict evaluation, and investors globally would finally pay attention.

But Now? Things have changed. Recent data shows the Binance effect is fading. In many cases, token prices no longer jump or if they do, it’s just a short pump followed by a fast crash.

Some tokens have even dumped right after listing, burning investors who didn’t exit in time. So what happened to the Binance listing hype?

Should you still chase Binance listings? Or has the game changed for good?

1️⃣ Binance Listings in 2025: A Hidden Liquidity Trap?

Remember when getting listed on Binance was a big win? Maybe, not anymore.

According to on-chain analyst Dethective, most tokens listed on Binance in 2025 are now deep in the red with losses ranging from –17% to –91%. Out of 27 tokens, only 3 have actually made money:

• $FORM.X ( ▼ 1.75% )

• $RED.X ( ▲ 18.02% )  

• $LAYER.X ( ▲ 6.66% )  

Dethective puts it this way: “If you had invested $100 in each of the 27 tokens, you’d have around $1,500 left. That’s nearly 50% gone.”

And it’s not just about price drops. The real concern is what a Binance listing signals.

Just like Mrpatrickschmitt, Dethective says listing on Binance isn’t just about adding a trading pair. It’s a public endorsement → a signal that “this project is legit.”

But when most of these tokens crash hard? “It starts to feel like Binance is offering exit liquidity for early holders,” he warns.

He even compares it to a shady pizza shop that secretly adds pineapple to every order: “At some point, customers realize they’re being tricked and stop buying.”

2024 wasn’t any better

• Data from @oladee on Dune shows 98% of Binance-listed tokens in 2024 dropped in price

• Average loss: –54.6%

• 12 of them have lost over 90% of their value

All of this happened in a year where crypto was supposed to be making a comeback.

So now people are asking: Has Binance lowered its listing standards? Or has the exchange simply become a marketplace for retail exit liquidity?

2️⃣ Too Many Altcoins, Too Little Hype

Ever wonder why the classic “Binance pump” doesn’t hit like it used to? One big reason: There are just too many altcoins now:

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