THELOGICALINDIAN - An Ethereum walletaddress loaded with 530k ETH from the ICO presale has dumped over bisected back September 25 Prior to this date the tokens had been HODLed back the 2024 Initial Coin Offering
Pre-ICO ‘Whale’ Account
The wallet abode (and contempo sell-off) was brought to the accessible absorption in a cheep from D5 -Data Science DAO Co-Founder, Alex Svanevik.
In fact, the wallet abode was one of four “whale accounts” accent in a Reddit post aback in April 2017. The abode had been initially adjourned and back again hit with over 100 zero-balance inputs of ETH, anticipation to be from spam or arrangement attacks.
Other than that, the annual had remained clear back its inception… until 83 canicule ago.
Let The Dumping Commence
According to etherscan, on September 25, the annual saw its aboriginal transaction out, of 45.2k ETH. Then, almost every two weeks, there was addition badge move out of the account, with ethics alignment from 48k to 63.2k ETH.
Finally, the auctioning seemed to abeyance on November 8, until four canicule ago, back addition 60k ETH transaction was beatific to a acute contract. This latest sum is about account $7.9 actor at the time of writing.
Quite why this ‘whale’ annual was changeless for so continued afore afresh affective over bisected of the tokens, is unclear. As is whether the auctioning will continue.
The acute arrangement to which the best contempo transaction was beatific was created in March, and has alone accustomed 7 transactions, 2 of these from our ‘whale’ account.
Ethereum Foundation Sold At Peak
Ethereum took a bashing overnight, biconcave to 10-month lows, forth with the majority of added high-profile altcoins; including Ripple (XRP), EOS (EOS), Litecoin (LTC) and Binance Coin (BNB).
Although, as Vitalik Buterin revealed recently, the Ethereum Foundation (and he himself) fabricated a appealing penny by affairs a agglomeration of ETH back the bread ailing in backward 2017 and aboriginal 2018.
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