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🚀 Bitcoin Smashes $1T Realized Cap as Price Defies Gravity at $118K—Despite $9B Satoshi-Era Whale Dump

🚀 Bitcoin Smashes $1T Realized Cap as Price Defies Gravity at $118K—Despite $9B Satoshi-Era Whale Dump

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Coindesk
Published:
2025-07-26 19:11:02
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Bitcoin Hits $1T Realized Cap as Price Holds Above $118K After $9B BTC Sale by Satoshi-Era Whale

Bitcoin just flexed its trillion-dollar muscles—again. The OG crypto’s realized market cap punched through the $1T ceiling while its price clung to $118K like a diamond-handed hodler. All this after a shadowy Satoshi-era whale unloaded a stomach-churning $9B in BTC. Guess even crypto’s ancient whales need Lambo maintenance money.

### The Trillion-Dollar Club (No Fiat Allowed)

Realized cap—the metric that tracks the *actual* price investors paid for their coins—just hit twelve zeros. That’s institutional-grade adoption meets degenerate retail FOMO. Meanwhile, spot prices shrugged off the whale’s fire sale like a bull market meme stock ignoring dilution.

### Whale Watching: Satoshi’s Ghost or Early Miner Cashing Out?

The $9B dump came from addresses untouched since Bitcoin’s dial-up days. Was it a long-lost Satoshi collaborator? A miner finally selling to buy a private island? Either way, the market swallowed it whole—proof that crypto’s liquidity pool now rivals Wall Street’s bathtub.

### Cynical Finance Bonus Round

Meanwhile, traditional finance still can’t decide if Bitcoin’s a ‘risk asset’ or ‘digital gold.’ Spoiler: It’s both—and neither. Try keeping up, boomers.

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