Does 5000 BTC mean something in a market that had a volume of just under $29 billion in 24 hours
$29B =1,450,000btc in 24 hours
=60416.66 an hour
~=10k per 10 minutes
~=5k per 5 minutes
so if other sellers are doing 5k volume in 5 minutes. and a new seller throws 5k in that same 5 minutes.. thats doubling the sell pressure for that 5 minute session
however coins move every second
meaning an exchange volume per order is not 5k.
an exchange order per second is atleast 300x less then 5k
where roughly 16btc is moved every second.
now if someone was to have 5000btc as one lump in one order.. that impact is temporarily for that 1 second 300x more then the norm average market order
of course over 24 hours its not impactful. but if pushed through in 5 minutes or 1 second then its noticeable..
whats then in question:
how much that 1 second or 5 minute sell session impacts, and how will other people react after the fact.. well thats speculation
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with all that said. the topic creator did not link a bitcoin transaction to show the claim of the topic.
in many topics of "whale alerts" showing large movements of over 1000 coins. it ends up not actually being a whale making a deposit. but instead the exchange itself just shuffling around its hot/cold wallets of funds it already had.
so was this actually a miner moving 5000 coins. or just another hotwallet shuffle by the exchange..
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other things to add..
although if its shown to be the case of fresh mined coins being sent to an exchange. thre have been cases where those coins do not turn into exchange balance to then hit the market.
instead some actually use an exchange as a gateway to send funds to thousands of users(individual miners of the pool) without bloating up the blockchain with thousands of utxos
they instead send exchange database balance to their pool users exchange account. splitting up the coin, as coin allotments to the many thousands of exchange accounts. without needing a bitcoin transaction with thousands of utxo's
then its up to the individuals to choose what they do with their balance.