Crypto Whales Are Circling—And They Might Just Propel Bitcoin Past Its All-Time High

Bitcoin’s next bull run could be fueled by deep-pocketed investors—despite regulatory headwinds and market skepticism. When whales move, altcoins typically follow. Here’s why the dominoes might fall in 2025.

The Whale Effect: Liquidity Tsunami or Pump-and-Dump?

Overnight buy orders from mega-wallets have historically triggered parabolic rallies. This time, institutional players are lurking too—though they’ll probably call it ’digital asset allocation’ while charging 2% management fees.

Altseason’s Hidden Trigger

Watch for BTC dominance breaking below 40%. That’s when speculative capital floods into Ethereum, Solana, and memecoins. Retail FOMO meets algorithmic trading—what could go wrong?

Regulators are already drafting angry tweets, exchanges are ’accidentally’ going offline during volatility, and your cousin will inevitably ask about buying Shiba Inu at the peak. The cycle continues.

In brief

• Bitcoin’s current movement resembles the pattern seen before the last rally.
• Whales offload 50,000 BTC in 10 days, signaling profit-taking.
• The “digital gold” narrative gains strength alongside growing institutional investment.
• The Fed remains cautious, but trade war tensions sparked by Donald Trump still create uncertainty.

Whales may push bitcoin to $110,000, but the sea could become rough for BTC

Bitcoin was trading sideways around $96,400 amid optimistic projections but without a volatility catalyst. This is because the Federal Reserve (Fed) decided to keep the annual benchmark interest rate in the United States unchanged, disappointing bulls and bears alike.

On X this week, Ali Martinez signaled that the Bitcoin rally may have been postponed by the unloading of large cryptocurrency wallets, a move that could trigger a buyback.

Whales unloaded about 50,000 #Bitcoin $BTC in the last 10 days. A clear signal of profit-taking at current levels.

Rekt Capital, for his part, believes that bitcoin’s market dominance could reach 71% in the coming months and favor the recovery of bitcoin’s all-time high of $110,000 before profit-taking through the altcoin buying season (altseason).

Bitcoin dominance has one last stage remaining in its macro uptrend on the way to 71% (red). Any drop to 64% WOULD constitute a new test. A successful new test would allow the continuation of the final trend toward 71% (green box).

The expert also considered recent chart patterns that set bitcoin toward targets reaching $110,000.

Digital gold

Rekt Capital’s analysis can be considered modest compared to a recent report released by Standard Chartered, which does not rule out the possibility of bitcoin reaching $120,000 in the first half of the year. In this case, the British bank works with liquidity outflows from the United States, partially towards BTC, seen as “digital gold.”

The document signed by the head of digital asset research, Geoffrey Kendrick, also highlighted accumulation by whales and net capital inflow to bitcoin-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

Obstacles in Bitcoin’s path

On the other side, TRUMP imposed this week a 100% tariff on films produced outside the United States. The measure, which caused market sourness, precedes the decision of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the decision-making body for the Fed’s interest rate, which may not necessarily represent a trigger for bitcoin’s rise and thus delay short-term optimistic forecasts. Moreover, BTC still faces the risk of being considered illegal in Europe.

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