{"id":545203,"date":"2026-01-22T11:30:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=785660"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:30:27","slug":"the-6-billion-gap-why-new-institutional-whales-are-defining-btc-price-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/22\/the-6-billion-gap-why-new-institutional-whales-are-defining-btc-price-action\/","title":{"rendered":"The $6 Billion Gap: Why New Institutional Whales Are Defining BTC Price Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/diamond-hands--768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>New whales now control a larger share of bitcoin\u2019s realized cap than long-term \u201cOG\u201d whales, according to recent on-chain data. Unlike the old guard, which maintains a lower cost basis of around $40,000, these newcomers reportedly entered the market at much higher levels, with an average cost basis of approximately $98,000. The New Guardians of [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New whales now control a larger share of bitcoin\u2019s realized cap than long-term \u201cOG\u201d whales, according to recent on-chain data. Unlike the old guard, which maintains a lower cost basis of around $40,000, these newcomers reportedly entered the market at much higher levels, with an average cost basis of approximately $98,000. The New Guardians of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":545204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-545203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}