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Largest Dogecoin Holder Transfers $280M, Is It Elon Musk?

The Dogecoin value is presently experiencing a fairly underwhelming week. Inside the final seven days, the DOGE value has dropped by round 15%. The sell-off was reignited yesterday after a vote on Twitter revealed that Elon Musk is about to step down from his function as Twitter CEO.

Curiously, the most important DOGE holder (tackle: DPDLBAe3RGQ2GiPxDzhgjcmpZCZD8cSBgZ) transferred 3.841 billion DOGE, equal to about $280 million) to the tackle DDuXGMFNGpGjaAqyDunSMvceMBruc1wwKF right this moment. Notably, this tackle is in flip the fifth largest DOGE holder.

Additionally noteworthy is the truth that that is the most important switch in someday because the creation of the Dogecoin tackle talked about above. In accordance with BitInfoCharts information, the most important tackle owns greater than 1 / 4 of all DOGE (25.24%). The fifth-largest tackle nonetheless owns 2.8% of all DOGE. After Crypto Twitter noticed the transaction, rumors instantly resurfaced that Elon Musk may very well be the person behind it.

Dogecoin largest addresses. Supply: BitInfoCharts

One consumer speculated that the billionaire is making ready to pay out money to supply collateral for Tesla‘s margin calls. Nevertheless, it’s a reality that there’s presently no proof that the most important DOGE tackle belongs to Elon Musk.

There are some speculations that might level to this and have saved the rumor floating across the crypto neighborhood for fairly a while. The hypothesis has even led to Elon Musk going through the matter in Manhattan federal courtroom.

In June, buyers filed a lawsuit alleging that Musk and his corporations Tesla Inc, SpaceX and Boring Co manipulated the Dogecoin value. The lawsuit seeks $258 million in damages.

Clues That Elon Musk Is The Largest Dogecoin Holder

A take a look at BitInfoCharts’ Wealthy Listing reveals that the richest Dogecoin tackle is assigned to the American buying and selling platform Robinhood. Nevertheless, there are doubts about this.

Cryptocurrency change addresses are characterised by the truth that there are fixed inflows and outflows. Nevertheless, the mysterious DOGE tackle reveals very atypical habits, which raises the query of whether or not it’s actually an tackle of Robinhood, as a analysis professional advised Enterprise Insider.

Due to this fact, in early November, the on-chain evaluation service “Lookonchain” performed an investigation into the origin of the most important Dogecoin tackle. The evaluation discovered that the most important whale acquired the token in massive portions between July 19 and July 21, totalling 41 billion DOGE value $6.4 billion at the moment.

The DOGE of the present largest tackle got here from 5 different addresses, with the most important share coming from an tackle beforehand believed to be attributed to Elon Musk. That tackle ended its DOGE accumulation someday earlier than Elon Musk tweeted on February 10, 2021, that he had bought Dogecoins for his son.

One other putative indication is the quantity of Dogecoin that one of many addresses purchased in February 2021, particularly: thrice 28.061971 DOGE. Coincidentally, this, June 28, 1971, is Elon Musk’s birthday.

At press time, the DOGE value was bouncing off the essential help at $0.07 and simply sat above this degree.

Dogecoin DOGE USD 2022-12-20
DOGE value, 1-day chart

Featured picture from Unsplash, Chart from TradingView.com