{"id":126768,"date":"2025-04-09T06:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=126768"},"modified":"2025-04-09T06:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:16:12","slug":"ethereum-whale-sells-eth-after-900-days-missing-27m-possible-peak-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=126768","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum whale sells ETH after 900 days, missing $27M possible peak profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsAn Ether whale who had held 10,000 Ether for the last 900 days has sold their entire stash and missed out on a peak profit of $27.6 million when the cryptocurrency was worth over $4,000.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe whale initially bought a total of 10,000 Ether (ETH) across two transactions in October and November 2022 for $13 million at the time for an average price of $1,295 per token, blockchain analytics service Lookonchain said in an April 8 X post.<br \/>\n\u201cHe didn\u2019t sell when Ether broke through $4,000. But today, he exited with a $2.75 million profit. The profit at the peak was $27.6 million,\u201d Lookonchain said.<br \/>\nSource: Lookonchain\u00a0The whale sold when Ether was around $1,578, according to Lookonchain. Within the period that the whale wallet was holding its stack, Ether hit a high of $4,015 on Dec. 9, CoinGecko data shows.\u00a0<br \/>\nEther is sitting at around $1,426, down 24% over the last seven days amid a broader market sell-off sparked by the Trump administration\u2019s sweeping global tariffs.<br \/>\nETH hit its all-time high of $4,878 on Nov. 10, 2021, about a year before the whale\u2019s first purchase.<br \/>\nTrump\u2019s World Liberty Financial sells part of ETH stash\u00a0<br \/>\nIn a separate April 9 post to X, Lookonchain said the Donald Trump-backed crypto project, World Liberty Financial (WLF), might have also sold some of its Ether stash at a loss.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cA wallet possibly linked to World Liberty sold 5,471 ETH ($8.01M) at $1,465,\u201d Lookonchain wrote.<br \/>\nSource: LookonchainBefore the supposed sale, Lookonchain said World Liberty Financial had a stash of 67,498 Ether, which it bought at an average price of $3,259.<br \/>\nRelated: Trump tariffs could lower Bitcoin miner prices outside US, says mining exec<br \/>\nTwo other whales have also made big moves amid a market bloodbath that has seen some traders buying the dip.\u00a0<br \/>\nOn April 7, an unidentified crypto whale had to inject 10,000 Ether\u2014 worth more than $14.5 million, to save their position of 220,000 Ether worth more than $300 million from liquidation amid the market slump.\u00a0<br \/>\nAnother whale wasn\u2019t as lucky, losing 67,570 Ether on April 6, worth around $106 million, when their significant position on decentralized finance lending platform Sky was liquidated.\u00a0<br \/>\nMagazine: Bitcoin heading to $70K soon? Crypto baller funds SpaceX flight: Hodler\u2019s Digest<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/ethereum-whale-sells-eth-after-900-days-missing-27-m-peak-profit?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsAn Ether whale who had held 10,000 Ether for the last 900 days has sold their entire stash and missed out on a peak profit of $27.6 million&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126768"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}