Whale Targets $100k Bitcoin Amid Mixed Spot Flow
Bitcoin (BTC)
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Eugene Serbin
lookonchain.com reports that a crypto whale has set ten major goals, including a target of Bitcoin reaching $100k soon. The whale stated that it has repurchased two-thirds of its positions within the $7.8 to $7.98 range. Consequently, the whale believes that meaningful pullbacks will be difficult to see before the $100k mark is reached.
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How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for BTC, measured when this story was written up on 28 August 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
Bitcoin is trading at $80,249.58 with a 1-hour buy ratio of 52.3%, indicating short-term buying pressure is currently dominant. However, this momentum is fading over longer timeframes, as the 4-hour buy ratio drops to 39.8% and the 24-hour ratio sits at 45.2%. The 1-hour volume delta is positive at $1,968,400, showing immediate net inflows, but the 4-hour delta is deeply negative at -$36,806,801. Over the full 24 hours, the volume delta is -$123,102,218, with a cumulative volume delta (CVD) of -$107,359,372. This means that while small-scale buying is active right now, larger historical selling pressure has outweighed buying over the day. Net buying occurred for only 8 of the 24 hours, with total spot volume reaching $1,297,370,375 across nearly 5 million trades.
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.
Twenty-four hours later
What BTC did over the 24 hours after the story broke. The market moves for its own reasons; this is what happened, not what the story caused.
Was that an ordinary day?
The same Binance spot measurements for BTC, averaged over the days leading up to the story.
Comparing today's activity to the preceding week reveals a shift in momentum. The current 24-hour buy ratio of 45.2% is lower than the 7-day average of 51.1%, representing a 5.8 percentage point drop. Trading volume today is also subdued, running at 0.65x the weekly average. While the coin saw a 9.9% price increase over the past 8 days, today's volume is significantly below the norm. This marks a departure from the weekly trend where net buying occurred on 5 of the 7 days, with a total volume delta of $171,556,665. Today appears to be a quieter, less bullish day relative to the recent weekly average.