Every Bitcoin whale transaction above 50 BTC
The table above is a permanent record of every Bitcoin transaction worth 50 BTC or more, confirmed or still pending. Unlike the live bitcoin transactions chart, where bubbles drift off screen after a few minutes, nothing here rotates out. Click any row to see the full breakdown of its inputs and outputs.
Fifty bitcoin is a high bar. Higher than it sounds. On most days only a small share of the network's transactions clear it, and those few account for a large part of the value moving through Bitcoin. That's why they're worth a separate list.
What is a Bitcoin whale?
A Bitcoin whale is an address or owner holding enough BTC to move the market, or at least to be noticed when they move. There's no official cutoff. Analytics firms often draw the line at 1,000 BTC held, and Glassnode's charts use that figure; others count anyone with a few hundred. This table works one step earlier, by transaction size rather than balance, because a transfer of 50 BTC is what you can see on the blockchain, while who owns the coins usually isn't.
That distinction matters. A single whale can split one move into several smaller transactions that never reach 50 BTC, and an exchange can push 300 BTC between its own wallets without anyone buying or selling a thing. So a row here means a large amount of bitcoin moved. It doesn't, on its own, mean a whale traded.
Reading the table without overreacting
Most large Bitcoin transactions are boring. Exchanges shuffle coins between hot and cold wallets, and long-term holders consolidate old addresses into new ones. On top of that, Bitcoin's UTXO model often sends part of a transaction back to the sender as change, so a row showing 500 BTC may have moved far less to anyone else. (It's one of the more annoying quirks of reading Bitcoin data, and there's no clean way around it.)
The rows worth a second look are the ones that involve a labeled exchange on only one side. Coins moving from an unknown wallet to an exchange can mean someone is preparing to sell; coins leaving an exchange for an unknown wallet usually mean the opposite, a holder taking custody. Even then it's a hint, not a signal. I'd never trade on a single whale transaction. Plenty of loud "whale dumping" posts have come to nothing.
If you do act on whale moves with borrowed money, run the position through a bitcoin leverage calculator first, because a sharp move after a big transfer is exactly when leveraged positions get liquidated.
Bitcoin whale tracker tools
This table is one kind of bitcoin whale tracker: free, Bitcoin only, permanent, with every input and output one click away. Other tools do different jobs, and several are better for them. Whale Alert posts large transfers across many chains to X and Telegram as they happen, which is the fastest way to hear about a big move. Glassnode and Santiment chart whale transaction counts over time, which is better for spotting trends than any single row. Arkham labels a huge number of addresses, so it often knows who is behind a transfer when we don't.
For who holds the most bitcoin rather than who just moved it, the richest bitcoin addresses are ranked on our rich list, with their recent inflows and outflows. Whale behavior isn't only a Bitcoin story either: in small tokens, a few wallets can hold most of the supply, and the cryptocurrencies ranked 801 to 900 show how much that changes the risk.
Around 1.1 million bitcoin mined in Bitcoin's first year are widely attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto, and they have never moved. If they ever did, this table would show it within minutes, and the rest of crypto would talk about little else for a month.
Questions about Bitcoin whales
Do whale transactions move the price?
It depends on what the coins are doing. A transfer between an exchange's own wallets moves nothing. A large deposit to an exchange followed by selling can push the price down, especially in thin weekend markets. Most of the time, a single transaction is too small relative to Bitcoin's daily trading volume to matter on its own.
Is a big transfer to an exchange always a sale?
No. Coins sent to an exchange might be used as collateral, moved for an over-the-counter deal, or simply sit there. Selling is one possibility among several, and you usually can't tell which from the blockchain alone.
What's the largest Bitcoin transaction ever?
By number of coins, one of the largest was a transfer of roughly 500,000 BTC by the Mt. Gox exchange in November 2011, worth about $1.5 million at the time. At today's prices it would be among the largest transfers ever by value too, and if it happened now, it would sit at the very top of this table.
I hold bitcoin long term. Should I watch this table?
Not closely. Whale moves matter most to short-term traders. If you're buying steadily and holding, a crypto DCA calculator will tell you more about your own position than any single row here.
Disclaimer
This table and article list Bitcoin whale transactions for informational and educational purposes only. It does not constitute financial, investment, or trading advice. Transaction data is sourced from the third-party mempool.space API and may be delayed, incomplete, or subject to that service's availability. A large transaction does not, on its own, indicate buying or selling intent. Nothing on this page should be interpreted as a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any cryptocurrency. Blockchain Bubbles is not responsible for any losses incurred from use of this tool.