You Won’t Believe What Just Vanished: $1B Bitcoin Leaves Coinbase in 24 Hours 🚨

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If you walk the parched, digital stretches of Coinbase on May the 9th, you’ll find it a little quieter than before. It was a day stubborn with sunlight, headlines twitching like restless mules, and behind the screen-glare something happened—something big enough to make even the men who never blink glance twice. Coinbase, that whirring bazaar of coins—third-largest, some folks say—saw the biggest outflow of Bitcoin in all of 2025. Now, maybe you figure you’ve seen outflows before, a dollar here, a bitcoin there—pocket change for titans—but 9,739 Bitcoin left the building. Over a billion dollars, if you’re counting. And people do love to count.

André Dragosch, who knows a thing or two about numbers and European coffee, posted about it on X (used to be Twitter, but life is change). He says, straight-faced as a preacher at a bank robbery, “Institutional appetite for bitcoin is accelerating.” Never trust a market analyst who grins, by the way. It means something’s leaking.

Now, all this happened while Bitcoin itself was up there—dancing above $103,600 per coin. A price so high it’d give your grandma altitude sickness. And why was everyone in such a buying mood? Maybe it had something to do with the White House cutting those tariffs with China for 90 days—just enough time to panic, celebrate, and regret your decisions twice. The markets breathed easy for a minute, like farmers after rain, and greed came sniffing around again (as it does).

One Aurelie Barthere, staring into the abyss as all analysts do, told CryptoMoon this: “The risk of sudden re-escalation is gone. So everyone’s wild again about altcoins, Bitcoin, stocks—pretty much anything that moves and can be charted.” Apparently, removing tariffs is the financial equivalent of happy hour at the local tavern.

Corporate Bitcoin investment may lead to supply shock

You get all this institutional demand—hedge funds, corporations, bankers who hated Bitcoin last year and now call it ‘diversified exposure.’ That’s when the clever old term “supply shock” crawls out from under the porch and winks at you. See, less Bitcoin left on exchanges means buyers press up against empty glass cases, shouting for more, and that’s how prices go stomping upward like a shod horse in a carrot patch.

And if that sounds dramatic, Dragosch himself says it’s “crazy.” He’s counting up corporate purchases at nearly 200,000 Bitcoin so far this year. That’s four times what those tidy US spot Bitcoin ETFs bought, which makes the ETF people look like they brought a butter knife to a gunfight.

Of course, nothing gold can stay—not even in crypto land. Even the bullish Dragosch mutters about short-term corrections, like a weatherman warning of rain while the sun is still out. The market’s hot, some say overheated, like a summer tomato. There might be a dip, or a tumble, or a full-blown cliff-dive; all we know is nobody knows, and everyone’s pretending they do.

Meanwhile, over at Glassnode, they’ve measured Bitcoin’s “illiquid supply” up to a whopping 14 million BTC. In plain English, that means the big wallets—whales, institutions, suspiciously silent billionaires—are stockpiling coins like it’s canned beans before the storm. And sure enough, CryptoMoon reported it, just in case you missed the subtlety.

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2025-05-13 19:22