According to the analytical company Santiment, addresses with a balance of 100 to 10,000 BTC have bought 40,747 coins ($726 million) in the last 9 days. As of December 15, there are 15,848 such wallets, or 0.0364% of the total number of bitcoin addresses (43,460,000). In addition, 159 wallets containing from 100 to 10,000 BTC have been created over the past three weeks. This is the fastest growth in the number of large addresses in the last 10 months. There are also significant purchases of stablecoins.
Investors are interested in such stable coins as Tether (USDT), Binance USD (BUSD), USD Coin (USDC) and Dai (DAI). Thus, addresses holding from $100,000 to $10,000,000 hold 31.48% of the USDT offer, 38.33% — USDC, 7.01% — BUSD and 37.59% — DAI.
Tether's key addresses have collectively increased their purchasing power by $817.5 million over the past 3 days, which is 7% more than before December 10, 2022. Binance USD wallets, in turn, increased the indicator by $ 104.9 million (+9%).
According to analysts, the accumulation of digital assets is a sign that "the cryptocurrency is still far from death."
As of December 15, 14:10 Moscow time, BTC is trading at $17,668, having decreased by 0.87% per day, according to the Binance crypto exchange.
According to Glassnode, the number of bitcoin wallets with a balance of more than 10,000 BTC increased significantly in November. So, on November 17, the indicator increased to 40,000. Later, Glassnode reported a decrease in the number of bitcoin millionaires by 80% over the year. As of November 25, there were only 23,345 wallets in the world with a balance of 1 million BTC and above. On November 8 last year, the figure was 112,898.
In December, experts said that Polkadot (DOT), Monero (XMR) and Stellar (XLM) tokens show bullish signals.