Dormant Bitcoin Whale Reactivates After 13 Years
Bitcoin (BTC)
Editor:
Eugene Serbin
According to lookonchain.com, a Bitcoin address dormant for over 13 years has reactivated. The whale originally accumulated 801 BTC when prices ranged between $124.86 and $411.75. At 17:43:54 Beijing time today, the address sent a test transaction of BTC worth $43.
The unrealized profit on these holdings now stands at $67.82 million. Prime Intellect Inference Platform also went live, processing nearly 1 trillion tokens daily. Trader Loracle shorted SanDisk with 10x leverage, incurring an unrealized loss of approximately $3.7 million.
European open-source model Kolibri launched with 3.46B active parameters and a 1M context window. CZ stated that Binance’s SAFU Fund’s $270 million unrealized profit may be purely a matter of luck. Ansem noted that strong altcoins will keep emerging during a bull market. HyperLink completed a $2.5 million funding round to become Hyperliquid's prime broker.
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for BTC, measured when this story was written up on 4 October 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
Bitcoin is trading at $84,753.56 with a 1-hour buy ratio of 48.4% and a 4-hour buy ratio of 40.1%. These short-term ratios are below the 24-hour buy ratio of 50.5%, indicating that buying pressure is fading in the immediate term. The 1-hour volume delta is -$376,125, while the 4-hour delta is -$18,966,069, showing net selling in the recent hours. Over the last 24 hours, the volume delta is positive at +$5,811,125, but the cumulative volume delta (CVD) at the close is -$41,375,272. This suggests that while there was net buying volume today, the overall trend has been dominated by selling pressure. Spot volume reached $583,778,209 with 668,698 trades in the last day.
The latest daily buy ratio of 46.7% sits at the 18th percentile of the last 322 days, against a median of 49.2% - weaker buying than most days.
Was that an ordinary day?
The same Binance spot measurements for BTC, averaged over the days leading up to the story.
The current 24-hour buy ratio of 50.5% is slightly higher than the 7-day average of 47.9%, representing a +2.6 point increase. However, the 24-hour spot volume of $583,778,209 is only 0.43x the weekly average, indicating significantly lower activity. Net buying occurred on only 1 of the last 7 days, compared to the 7 hours of net buying seen in the last 24 hours. The price change over the past 8 days is +0.4%, showing minimal movement. The total volume delta over the preceding 8 days was -$507,927,156, contrasting with the positive 24-hour delta.