
{"id":142900,"date":"2026-03-17T23:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=142900"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:00:32","slug":"80-down-shiba-inu-whale-finally-exits-after-2-year-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=142900","title":{"rendered":"80% Down: Shiba Inu Whale Finally Exits After 2-Year Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wallet sat quiet for almost two years. No trades, no movement \u2014 just billions of Shiba Inu tokens parked on-chain while the market did what it wanted. Then, on March 15, it all moved at once.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>A Long Wait That Ended In The Red<\/h2>\n<p>Blockchain <a href=\"https:\/\/intel.arkm.com\/explorer\/address\/0xb0e8E4F2CE189D9670a462281504a008DefEbA2d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data from Arkham<\/a> Intelligence shows that a wallet identified as \u201c0xbOe8\u201d sent roughly 14.5 billion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/shiba-inu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SHIB<\/a> to crypto exchange OKX last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The tokens first moved to an intermediary wallet before landing in OKX\u2019s hot wallet. When the dust settled, the investor recovered just $84,640 \u2014 a fraction of the $506,830 originally spent.<\/p>\n<p>The math is brutal. That works out to a loss of about $422,190, or 80% of the entire investment. For nearly two years, the wallet showed almost no activity.<\/p>\n<p>On-chain records indicate the only movements during that period were small spam transfers \u2014 nothing that looked like active trading or any attempt to cut losses early.<\/p>\n<p>The original purchase was made on Binance in March 2024, when SHIB was deep in a rally that pushed the token to a high of around $0.000045. Buyers at that level were betting the momentum would carry further. It didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<h2>Bought At The Peak, Held Through The Drop<\/h2>\n<p>Since that March 2024 high, SHIB has shed roughly 82% of its value. The token now trades around $0.0000063. At its lowest point this past February, the price had fallen to about $0.0000051 \u2014 an 85% drop from where this investor got in.<\/p>\n<p>Holding through that kind of decline takes either conviction or inertia. Based on the on-chain record, this wallet did nothing for close to two years. No partial sells, no rebalancing. The position just aged while the price eroded.<\/p>\n<p>When the wallet finally moved on Sunday, the token ended up at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.okx.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OKX<\/a> \u2014 widely seen as a signal that a sale was imminent or already executed, given that hot wallets on exchanges are typically used for active trading.<\/p>\n<p>The Flip Side Of The Same Coin<\/p>\n<p>Not every SHIB holder has a story like this one. Reports note that some early buyers turned small initial amounts into life-changing returns, though those cases largely belong to an earlier era of the token\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The meme coin launched in 2020, and its biggest gains came in 2021, when prices spiked by several thousand percent.<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image from Pethelpful, chart from TradingView<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wallet sat quiet for almost two years. No trades, no movement \u2014 just billions of Shiba Inu tokens parked on-chain while the market did what it wanted. Then, on March 15, it all moved at once. \u00a0 A Long Wait That Ended In The Red Blockchain data from Arkham Intelligence shows that a wallet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":142901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}