{"id":570749,"date":"2026-03-18T16:52:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/bhutan-offloads-an-additional-72-3m-bitcoin-amid-market-downturn\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T16:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:52:50","slug":"bhutan-offloads-an-additional-72-3m-bitcoin-amid-market-downturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/bhutan-offloads-an-additional-72-3m-bitcoin-amid-market-downturn\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhutan offloads an additional $72.3M Bitcoin amid market downturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjUtMTIvMDE5YjIxZTQtZWExMi03MDdiLThjMmQtYTExOTRmMzc3YjUwLmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Bhutan offloads an additional $72.3M Bitcoin amid market downturn\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the Kingdom of Bhutan&#8217;s BTC reserve peaked in October 2024, when it held more than 13,000 coins, it has been pared to just 4,400 Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>The Kingdom of Bhutan has transferred over $72.3 million in Bitcoin (<a title=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/bitcoin-price\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/bitcoin-price\">BTC<\/a>) from its wallets over the last 24 hours, as it continues to sell portions of its holdings.<\/p>\n<p>Druk Holding and Investments (DHI), a state-owned investment company that manages the country\u2019s Bitcoin mining operations and crypto investments, has moved more than 973 BTC over the past 24 hours, in six separate transactions, <a title=\"https:\/\/intel.arkm.com\/explorer\/entity\/druk-holding-investments\" href=\"https:\/\/intel.arkm.com\/explorer\/entity\/druk-holding-investments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according<\/a> to Arkham Intelligence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DHI also moved more than 175 BTC, valued at $11.8 million, on March 10. \u201cBhutan periodically sells portions of its Bitcoin in clips of $5 million to $10 million, with a particularly <a title=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/bhutan-bitcoin-transfer-fed-rate-cut\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/bhutan-bitcoin-transfer-fed-rate-cut\">heavy period of selling<\/a> around mid-late September 2025,\u201d Arkham <a title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/arkham\/status\/2033973455465681104\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/arkham\/status\/2033973455465681104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/bhutan-offloads-72-3m-bitcoin-downturn\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Kingdom of Bhutan&#8217;s BTC reserve peaked in October 2024, when it held more than 13,000 coins, it has been pared to just 4,400 Bitcoin. The Kingdom of Bhutan has transferred over $72.3 million in Bitcoin (BTC) from its wallets over the last 24 hours, as it continues to sell portions of its holdings. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":570750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-570749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570749","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=570749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}