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Yesterday someone really taken big risk and trasfered his money to other wallet dont know who can do it or its legal money transfer or not
here is its blockchain track link https://www.blockchain.com/en/btc/address/12YygZpCEC8VED2oSMQdWCq5xBnHo9ts1Z

cause its not a small amount its 298 M $ transferred almost

what u think its legal transaction money used for legal use or some fishy thing !

bitcoin is dominated and ruled by its whales

My god. I hope it's person who bought BTC and transferred to his ledger or something, not one who prepared to dump them :(
I believe transferring huge amount of money like that is easier for corporations, then to use bank system.

That would be probably some Big company that holds most of the Bitcoins out there. We just have to hope that they will not do anything that would ruined the market.

It is to be hoped that bitcoin is put on a cold purse for safe storage.

If they were transferred to a crypto exchange for sale, then we are in for a collapse   :'(

Yes it looks like a big company are behind that and who ever hold that bitcoin is very rich and I hope he/she are anonymous and safe because if anyone ever know this person I know bad guys will come. Because of that transaction we might experience the market to go up or down again.

I hope nobody will sell it for fiat at such a low price. We need such a holder like him :)

Well we could not say that it is illegal because we do not know those persons behind. Maybe they are pool of investors or huge scale investors that had sale or transfer BTC. It is a good idea to do transfer of BTC in another wallet especially if there are suspicious events that turn to your digital wallets. You must be careful with it and one thing to avoid getting hack is to create another digital wallet.

there is no risk about transferring money with bitcoin if you know what you are doing. in fact after learning a bunch of easy things about securing your wallet using bitcoin is the safest thing in the whole world for transferring funds.

large transactions like this are common. there are also thousands of different services out there that sometimes move their funds around. exchanges, payment processors, gambling sites, wallets (like coinbase), mixers, merchants, miners, mining pools, early adopters, .... and lots more have such funds.

Either such money belongs to a group of people or someone who acquired quite a number of bitcoins early enough or it is illegal money. This, amongst other reasons, may account for the move by government to want to regulate cryptocurrencies. I hope this money is for a good purpose.

it is likely that he is a corrupt official who wants to launder money to avoid law enforcement officers.

I do not know why you have a negative thinking. Bitcoin has become popular nowadays, even as an alternative to having a different country money, I guess bitcoin is easier to use than other international remittances.

Let's just say this is an alternative to be used by everyone, negative thinking only makes cryptocurrency increasingly seen as an illegal place or a negative place that should be shunned by everyone.

What kind of risk are you talking about? Bitcoin transactions are safe and there is no risk that someone could steal your money while moving coins between addresses. I doubt that such person would type incorrect Bitcoin address. When I always send at least a couple of hundred dollars worth of BTC I check the address a few times before I sign the transaction.

just crazy. so many bitcoins and so much on fiat money. who can own so much money? that can not be a single person, right? incredible!  :o

It's unbelievable, This is the first transition I have seen, where 48500 Bitcoins have been transferred together. Since Bitcoin can be used by any person to take his money safely to another place. So I think someone has transferred his money to another country. Otherwise, any company or bank has purchased this Bitcoin for hold.

That's unbelievable! :o Though it don't find anything wrong about it. Probably, it is a big institution who bought Bitcoin to this extent. If it sold these then the price would have been dropped to very low price. I hope it holds the whole money safe.

I wonder if these two events are linked? https://bitcoinist.com/tether-grant-250-million-usdt-bitcoin/  - Tether has issued 250 million tokens (worth US$250) on June 25, according to Omni explorer.

Now a few days later, someone shifts 48500 bitcoins from one address to another? I do not believe in coincidences.  ::)  ... The drop in the price can also be explained, if this was linked.  :-\

48500 BTC is a huge amount. We should think positively about the security of the bitcoin exchange and get inspired by this kind of huge transactions.

Would anyone know where that transaction come from? Is it out from an exchange or is a peer to peer transfer? Someone is looking for doubling the money soon!

48500 btc, i dont wanna talk if thats a transfer for dump on market or transfer for cold wallet to hold, i just imagine if that transfer come from me im pretty sure i was check the address reciepient atleast 100 times to make sure the address is right lol

It sounds fishy. I am not sure what it would be. But I guess this something abnormal. May be it is done for market manipulaiton, any illegal transactions or something other unwanted situation.

Transfering large sum of bitcoin can create problems for the market. When large amount of fiat currency is transferred via bitcoin it becomes suspicious for other bitcoin holder. Large corporates might want to hold the coins to increase the market prices. The case of money laundering might happen, illegal money sent overseas.

That's what I understand the translation, not that I'm forwarding to 0.1 BTC. By the way, can you somehow calculate the owner of this money, or to whom did he forward it?

Transfered huge amount of money is quite easy in crypto currency it doesn't have any systemic issues like banks do, that's why the holder can easily access their transaction. but my advice will be to careful from the hackers when ever you are transferring huge amount like this.

That is some bravery action the person did there. He must be sweating himself before pressing the send button. Hope this is just a normal activity from a whale and nothing illegal going on.

legal money in Bitcoin? 70% of the money in the crypto is just a way to launder this money.  ;D
And we have this wallet- https://www.blockchain.com/en/btc/address/18888888EENAhksSohAkYwq7Fy4HLGciHb with 8

This wallet often sends signal transactions that exactly repeat the fall or growth of bitcoin, depending on the amount of the transaction.

I also saw something that a bunch of investors were planning to send $300k worth of bitcoins to Venezuela to be sold there, in an attempt to help them counter hyperinflation in that country. Strange how this amount is almost exactly what is needed to fund that goal.  ::) Some Whale might have seen that and decided that it was a good opportunity to help people with his coins.  :-\

You never know.  ::) Let's hope these coins just moved owners and that it will not have an affect on the price.  ;D

And the people still asking why bitcoin is better than banks lol
Try to do a bank wire out of the state with normal amounts and you can see the fees.
Try to do a bank wire out of the state and they will ask you a lot of question, and you need to wait from couple days to 1 week.
Try to do a bank wire out of the state of some millions.. probably they arrest you instantly :D

Thank you for the blockchain track link address. I will tell that whoever he is has taken a big risk. Maybe it is a big industry or company that is holding most of the BTC in the market. I hope that they won’t take any step that affect the entire market situation.

Nice amount of BTC. Maybe someone wants to play with market or just pump-dump BTC price. Traders always react on such moments.

That's a big amount. We hope that it was intended for storing in wallet but not for sale. Let's see what happens!

Horrible, I have never seen so many transactions bitcoin. I don't know if they bring all to sell, the price will be like bitcoin. I hope that they turn to the other and not purses bitcoin bring sold out all

Probably an exchange moving around coins.

But also it shouldn't really be 'taking a big risk'. Surely the person or people dealing with that amount of money can do the simple task of signing the transaction on an offline machine or device to make it virtually risk free.

OMG what a big transaction is this. I see people investing on Bitcoin if this transactions has been done by any good trader then it will never trouble anyone mate.
Please check the marketplace price today it seems little spike in the price chart from morning mate.

Mainly crypto market is infected for price based on this crypto market is fully unpredictable nowadays based on this situations we need to invest more also here we can see this is may be a company or big whale who transfer this money to wallet.

maybe whales are paying themselves in Bitcoin instead of cash for big businesses - just a thought.

thanks for suck a good response for my thread it shows how bitcoins users are excited to see such a huge transaction hopefully everyone will get good btc price soon

This is not a inoccent act...more than 200mln $ is not a amount of a person who want to send money to anouther person for some reason.

I think this is just an individual's wallet and they want to be safe by constantly changing wallets and anonymity. That could be a big whale when that number is not a small number.

well here is the first major motion starts, ahead of the big funds and larger accumulation of bitcoins in the wallets. the funds are starting to move.

Hopefully they are transferring it into that huge cold storage underground nuclear bunker never to be seen for the next ten years. I doubt they are for sale, market is too low for that

Probably an OTC seller if I had to guess. Or some kind of venture capital being shifted to a company they invested in. I imagine those are the most likely, but it could be illegal purposes I suppose. Wasn't his the transaction that was processed with $0.04? Saw this on reddit and hopefully people and exchanges start realizing that fees are very low ;D

I hope this is a sign that the price of BTC will moon soon,whales might be getting ready for the bullish period, as Q2 is over, positive expectation from Q3, The future is sure brigth for BTC  holders no need to panic, we are sure to take profit soon.

Is not it very risky to keep that amount of money in bitcoins? If the market falls, then there will be big losses.

BTC is dominated by many big investors, whale sharks, large bitcoins can create problems for the market. When large amounts of fiat currency are transferred through bitcoin, it becomes suspicious for other bitcoin holders.

Why do you think is he taking the big risk for transferring such huge amount in btc? Its the same as transferring a small amount like 0.0005 btc to another wallet as long as you are sending to correct address then its totally safe and secured btw Im sure its not owned by a single person only maybe a company who is using bitcoin for transactions is the owner of that very huge amount of money.

That is really an amazing moved of the one who transferred that very big amount. I also agree with others that maybe it from a very Big Company. And I hope that, it will result with a positive outcome.

I don't understand, why are you saying that that person took a big risk? If you do things properly there are no risk, of course you have to be very careful, but who wouldn't be with 300 millions in your hands?

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Crypto market is really suffering for price based on demand and supply also most of the coins are falling day by day based on this crypto market mainly they are known as whales and really he took a great risk based on this I think it wont gonna affect in market.

If the tranaction went successfully and there are no complaining about it i thnik that it is a big deal of something private or some one did change it wallet to be more secure or to revolute the midea's about btc or smthng like that

Yeah, i red about this in several news articles.
The interesting thing is how little it costto move around such vast amount of wealth. It made me thin khow hard it would be to move around such huge sums in regular banking system. i think it would be pretty difficult. What do you think?

Also why do you guys are convinced that this is big company of some sorts, it could easily be a early investor..

Mate, that amount is about 7.6% of today volume of BTC referring to CMC (636,177 BTC). But compared to BTC market Cap amount 17,129,200 BTC, it is only 0.283%. I think the direct effect will not be significant, but indirect effect to be watched such as psychological effect of traders and investors of FUD created by certain parties for their quick benefits. This is the dangerous thing.

the result will be two one positive, the other negative. but while we are again entering the bullish trend you can expect that it is just put on the new purse.

Maybe it's a company that holds many bitcoin. Yes, we cannot know the purpose of this one, why they transferred this huge amount of bitcoin to another wallet, but for sure, there is a good purpose of that money or I don't know. We cannot determine who is the perdon behind this.

If you properly check the received transactions then you can see that someone is going to play with the market as no one know that whether it is  exchange transfer or another wallet but something big is  waiting.

Who knows, but let's not forget that many who participated within the humble beginnings of Bitcoin, may well indeed be millionaires today. Let's say for arguments sake, you mined 50,000 Bitcoins, around the time when they were worth next to nothing. Even by today's current market price, you'd still be a wealthy individual.
    What about the guy who spent 100,000 Bitcoins on those pizzas? Imagine if he kept those coins? It really doesn't
 seem like so much money depending on your perspective view.

It's a whale. It won't take a direct impact to the market i guess or maybe a hales just entered the market. Whales are conquered the market. We cannot do much about it. They have large amount of Bitcoins in their pockets which create huge impact to market if they wanted to. Beware of this bull trend tho. It could be just a bull trap. I could be wrong but still be careful about buying. This is whale. Once it started to sell this huge amount. It's a sudden drop. Whales are just playing the market and small players.

Just have a hope that this whale won't sell its Bitcoins. So small players like us won't suffered from it. I hope we recover soon. That amount we see is huge amount and can be a good sign for bull market.

when the whales sell their bitcoins at a low price, the fish will quickly collect their feed. the whales will not play lower, they will blow with the sale to the market again when the market reaches its peak and make sales again to fill the stocks below.

This is just showing that there are whales existing in bitcoin. They can just dump their btc and make the market dropping more.
I think it is not illegal, this is just a huge amounts in single transaction. I wonder when they bought that amount of bitcoin.

It would be interesting to see how is this person going to use these coins now. If he is thinking to exit, then there will be a big price crash.

It's strange to me that everyone is so surprised at such a big transfer of funds. Perhaps a person had reasons to transfer bitcoins from one purse to another and this does not mean that he is going to do something with them now.

That's a huge amount and I understand it's not against the law for me and that's an incredible amount, I wish I could have that amount.

 I think that is one of whale that want hodling bitcoin and wait for the bull run. Yes its totally big money I can't imagine that one person bag a lot of bitcoin. I think that is a legal transaction and they just want to hodl or they want to use for future transaction.

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This is a big money for many people I think investors are the owners of this account.Because of the very large amount of money transfers to a different wallet, large Company come from from such transactions take place.

I have the same thoughts as you. Some companies exploit Bitcoin, and they own a very large amount of Bitcoin. If they give up Bitcoin, it means that bitcoin and altcoin prices will drop or end

It seems, that i know who has transfered this btc)Ofcourse it is Bill Gates ;D

I hope the bitcoin was transffered in the last few days ago are the purposes is to hold. I think it is good that you see that because the price of the bitcoin increase again and this is good to see this thread. I hope it will related to the bitcoin price that price increased.

We need to make sure that we are holding the bitcoin and not selling it because the said amount of bitcoin was a very huge amount and it can dump the price of bitcoin to at least 1,000 USD and i also hope that people will just hold their bitcoin and be optimistic for the incoming months of bitcoin and not sell their coin so we can avoid the dump.

They are probably the first participants in the crypto field or may be a big investor.

I don't think the transfer of large amounts of bitcoin should be assumed as shady or illegal. A lot of whales know that blockchain technology has a bright future and are positioning themselves for another market rally. This may be an institution.

perhaps the trust in the old wallet was lost and put on a new wallet and unknown to anyone  and to continue working with the new storage.

Be positive my friend,  :) i am expecting a positive move behind this big trade happen on the blockchain and one thing is sure that this trade is made by some big corporate office or hub and it is surely for a positive move because if it was to be a negative move then you should have seen some big impact on the price charts sooner. But till now there has not been a big move seen on the downside and this is the reason i am full on expecting a bullish move soon as the whales are buying in the background.

You found a whale! I think that cause of a sudden changes in the price of bitcoin last week. Imagine, from $6200 fluctuating up to $6800.
Whether it is legal or illegal, we cannot do it since it was an anonymous transaction and nothing will know who is it. But I am hoping that it will become an investment of a large investor in order for it to help the community to goes strong.

I thing its a biggest whales or group who is holding more bitcoin they are transferring these bitcoins in ledger wallet or somewhere else they wanna store their bitcoins also this can be a big corporate company who is holding bitcoins but i hope they not ruined this market, this kind of biggest transaction show us biggest whales exist here who can manipulate markets.

This is maybe one of the great holdings from an individual who used to be here earlier than 2017 where market price for bitcoin is not that huge compared to now. The transfer is being made due to a certain reason and that is to secure his digital wallet from getting compromise.

Damn it will hurt if they decide to sell it xd

That amount is very huge and I think that the owner of that is probably one of the big whales here in crypto world. I wonder what makes him to decide and transfer it to the other wallet sinced it is a very risky kind of moved. I just hope that it will be used for a good purpose and can contribute for the betterment of bitcoins.

Maybe he is whales.
Whales has a very large asset in his wallet, I think Whales is one of those who control the BTC price. about the transaction, he could have sold it to the owner of the wallet he sent BTC or it could be his other wallet. we do not know how big the asset is from Whales

There are a few people who called by us as "whale". 48500 BTC is big number but none of real bigs. BTC volume is 4.5 billion dollars according to coinmarketcap.com. It is obviously bigger than 298k dollars. Of course it can make an effect but I think it's not strong enough to bring market down.

That's a pretty huge amount of BTC, In my opinion maybe it is owned by an individual or a corporation and he/she or they have decided to change their wallet because I think as of now no one will have the guts to buy that huge amount of BTC, Nice find maybe other pro can make an investigation about this.

Such a big amount is really a big dream for most of the members in this forum.  Even most of members may not be having dollars in this big quantity.  But it is fact that there are some big investors found every where who are the drivers of market sentiments. 
These people decide the fate of market.  Few such people will change the market movement for upwards to downwards or vice versa . 

And this is exactly why I think that bitcoin was created to enable governments monitoring the fund movements, not to make it more private! If say Rotschild moves some bearer bonds from his safe and hands them to his son, it is totally private. But with bitcoin he just can't do that!

Look: a guy moves his 300M and everybody including all bitcointalk newbies immediately know about it, new threads get created ...

Am i the only one that is thinking how much did he/she/they pay for the fees?  ;D i think those fees are really big , though i think this is not only one person who owns this big amount of bitcoin, it could be whales, it could be a trading site or it could be an organization which has a business that is using bitcoin, no matter who it is i could really say that it is really big amount of money! Keep it safe!

maybe that whale is transferring his bitcoins taking the advantage of super cheap transaction fees :)

I think that guy is a whale who is putting his coins in cold wallets..So that his fund got safe..

Not so much, he paid 4 cents, considering the transfer was for 300M, I would judge it was quite a low fee :)

reference: https://www.blockchain.com/en/btc/tx/39afcad6c4d0713ed291014315c4dcf2d81334275218c28fd354af45b7395c61

I don't think we can know anything about the owner of the coin, it's all speculation at this point. But we can continue to watch this address and see if anything happens in the near future. If they were transferred to an exchange, then the exchange, then the owner would me smart enough to not sell all coins in a single transaction. They can spread it evenly over multiple weeks and I don't think this will impact the price that much.

If it was a transfer to a cold storage wallet, then there will not be any more movements in this account for the foreseeable future.

In either case, as the market grows and more people begin transacting in cryptocurrencies, such transactions will have little to no impact over the price.

which will make the question, is it really his money? or money break down an exchange? there should be laws for unusual transactions.

he has already started to act positively today filling all his other wallets and the coin began to grow in price. I hope it's a long time.

I think he's the person who hold bitcoin since 2012 and not selling it yet.
He's a real patient trader !

If they use that much amount to ruin market then it will be temporary for market but for that company or whale it would be a big loss to ruin crypto . so they only use big amounts to manipulate little bit . they also want to earn more profit from bitcoin so will not sell at such low price.

Big amounts sitting on single addresses without constant transactions going in and out aren't usually from exchanges as far as I can tell. Exchanges always have activity due withdraws and deposits. It could be someone's cold storage or something. This is the problem with transaction amounts being public, now people start speculating about someone else's money.

https://btc.com/1EfBMK9q6rGFZazeF7jyNdTgqGYgcDgRE5

Look at the transaction history here and before that it was in smaller chunks. Particularly these 2:

https://btc.com/04c57af048c05d906f5ff6ff228b1f4422d7dd73c43b6c859935c6f18720b75a

https://btc.com/49e75c299b187d669ad49dfb18b9523c2c7097fc4c042ebcf23a4be267062762

from 2 years ago. 2 big deposits of 10-15k BTC.

I guess we'll never know who and why moves these huge chunks of money.

I think you can easily do it if you realy the owner of that bitcoins into diferents wallet anytime you wants and no one can question that because only are holding you own money. There is no big risk about that only transfering fund but the big risk of the if he will sell that bitcoins and it will surely dump bitcoin into a very low price.

I hope he or she wont sell that huge amount of bitcons in the market because if he do that im sure bitcoin price will surely dump realy hard into a very low low price in the market.

of course, probably already a lot of bad guys who target the bitcoin address is mainly hackers. many large websites sort of hacked exchange, and did not rule out hackers will try to break into the btc address after hearing this news. hopefully btc is safe, it is a great value

Such a great deal if converted to FIAT. We think positively, maybe it's a wallet an exchanger or a company to take care of their wallet by moving it to a new wallet.

If that happens, it becomes something that most people in the world will hold to hold that much amount of BITCOIN.

It is so exciting to see those things happening around because we are not knowing what was it and where that money goes for, we can now nothing who own that wallet, is it already spent somewhere, etc.

there are people who are interested in the legality of the transfer of large amounts of money , because they either want to get taxes on these operations or have it interests how to find out the identity of the person who made this transaction.

It could be an exchange wallet. Or may be some big fund/ politician etc

This is a huge money and i think someone that is so rich would be able to do that and maybe its core reason is to secure his BTC in the first place. OR it could be also that this is a team fund in btc for their project to work out on and uses bitcoin as a savings for their project to work and will be able to withdraw whenever they needed some of the money.

This guy still holding  ;D
https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/3Cbq7aT1tY8kMxWLbitaG7yT6bPbKChq64

Big money in bitcoin estimation does not always come from a very rich person, we know bitcoin can be obtained from many ways. There are many possibilities that he has that much bitcoin in a certain way or whatever. In essence, that number can make the bitcoin market crash quickly and that's a big bear to watch out for. :o

it's time to stop being afraid of big bears is the time of big small owners, big bears will be eaten by hamsters.

Only if hamsters can coordinate, and that in turn requires a hamster-commander behind the hamster movement, and that hamster-commander is just another bear in disguise...

Wow! That's a huge amount of money, and a lot of speculation, who owns this, if it's not a whale maybe it's from a big company with a lot of BTC holdings. Maybe he had this btc already from the moment BTC was created. How i wish that someone's who's rich as that would donate me 1 btc, haha, but that's impossible well I just do hope that this year I will get my first ever 1 BTC.

Wow... A whooping 48500btc. This is probably not own by a single person, perhaps it is own by a large company. Who so ever owns that is definitely a rich person or organization. I hope one day, I will be able to own some few hundreds of Bitcoin

Whales are involved in this market, all of us are just some small fishes under their hands LoL. I think this amount of btc is to dump the bitcoin price...

Oh my God. I think it must be an organization that owns so many bitcoins. I hope the bitcoin will not be devalued by such information

This kind of transfer doesn't happen without any reason, we can just hope it's not a bad one involved here. That guy could easily break some markets but given the increasing price of bitcoin from this period, I do not think that will happen.

I imagine there was a tense few moments encountered by whoever pressed the "Send" button. Deep breath to ensure that the address was entered correctly and so on :)

Bitcoin could go under regulation determined by a country, a regulation that regulates the use of bitcoin as a means of transactions that can be used in addition to the official currency held in the country, but for bitcoin value no regulation can regulate it because the value or bitcoin price is not affected by the regulation that is applied in a country, but bitcoin price is influenced by several factors such as, bitcoin influenced by supply and demand in marketplace or exchanges.

it is perfectly normal to transfer large amounts of bitcoin, because we know market market is in bitcoin and maybe it is done by big class investors and want to sell or do other transactions.

no one regulates the amount of transactions and will not continue to control them ever. in the future, you can wait for the transfer of even larger amounts of assets from hand to hand, through wallets.

There could be many perfectly legitimate reasons for a transaction of this scale, and in business terms it is not that big an amount-think cost of say a Boeing 747 etc. On the other hand it could be some arms/drug baron moving their ill gotten gains around-who knows. Will it effect the value of Btc? possibly in the short term, but it will recover.   

Possibly, he had this btc from the time the BTC was created. But that is not possible, I just hope that this year I will get my first BTC.

weather it's legal or not depends on how the coins were acquired, if they were payments from illegal activities then of course it would be illegal, and i doubt anyone would be silly enough to sell that many for fiat in one lot. I can almost hear  the conversation with the authorities when they try to bank the money.....
Question 1.
And how did you acquire all these Bitcoins Sir/madam?
 

I do not think that this is an excuse to get upset or vice versa. just a person decided to transfer funds from one purse to another

I hope it's a wallet from one of the big exchangers, because it's impossible if it belongs to one person. The value is very large and it will be difficult to get it in a short time.

We can only guess, maybe a whale maybe a biug company or an exchange or maybe one of the early adopter of Bitcoin, but anyway that's the beauty of it, you can transfer such huge amount without third party interferance and people will never know transfer such amount.

It's already three months since whoever that person send the money, look like he just holds it with no purpose to sell it. There no risk for bitcoin transaction except that person transfer all that bitcoin to the exchanger and start to sell all of them, and if you trace the address may be the one who owns it just hold from the beginning of bitcoin right  ???

As far as I know, such large operations have been quite frequent over the past month. But this does not mean that it is over-the-counter purchases or sales. It is likely that this is just a change in storage location. On the example of Coinbase. Within a month, they moved a huge amount of cryptocurrencies from one wallets to anothers, but this was an internal storage optemetization. It is likely that in this case we have the same movement. Of course, now there is a quiet game for buying Bitcoin by many major players, but it is difficult to determine this by transaction of wallets.

It's an exchange moving funds, hope it helps.

These are good signs to say bitcoin will not have an end and this transaction might be a bigshot securing some illegal funds as a simple logic to my assumption.

I am generally surprised to realize that someone can hold such a huge amount of bitcoin. And I don't even care if this deal is legal or not.

And a great risk to take on. Until today I never had problems transferring btc but I already had problem twice with tokens erc20 so whenever I go to make a big transfer I divide it in 2 or 3 times.

It's just a huge amount of money. And it seems to me that it is much safer to make such large money transfers through bitcoin. Besides, it's much more convenient.

The main thing is that someone still risks holding such huge amounts of money in bitcoin, even despite its unstable state today. This will allow bitcoin to develop further.

 :o
Maybe they are pool of investors or huge scale investors that had sale or transfer BTC.
Large transactions like this are common. there are also thousands of different services out there that sometimes move their funds around. exchanges, payment processors, gambling sites, wallets (like Blockchain), mixers, merchants, miners, mining pools, early adopters, .... and lots more have such funds.

It is cool, as transaction, yes... but remember, the whole blockchain market cap is worthy of billions of dollars...

maybe this is the reason for one of the crashes of bitcoin to touch $ 3200.
I just saw this tread and it turned out that this happened about 6 months ago.

You should read the date in OP as well.  This exact transfer cannot be the reason as the news is months old.  However,  it is possible that a similar thing might have had happened this time as well.  As the crypto reporting sites are not that much active now,  this is why it might not have got reported.

It is the beauty of crypto market that you can keep an eye and everything can be tracked ,in real currency market such type of huge amount would also have been transferred in the past but went unseen .Legality of the transaction can not be verified by an ordinary person as it is the duty of the income tax authorities of the country to which this gentleman belongs .

If the bitcoin transferred to an exchange wallet then we are in trouble again as the market will be on big trouble.
If the Bitcoin transferred to a nano or ledger then we are in good hands as a whale ended is packing for pump.
As of now there is more than 50 percent chance that it is on a private wallet as it remain there.

not a problem, because the daily trading volume of bitcoin is still above 5 billion dollars per day, that means when BTC experiences a dump, there will be a quick recovery, because the normal price is still above 3500 USD / BTC
in addition to dumping, 45k BTC can be used to pump other coins,
maybe coins with small volumes will start to get attention with large trading volumes,

probably the asset is own by crypto currency company like exchange website and they just transfer the coin to a private address

Wow!  That is really big amount of investment and it is great for the community of bitcoins because it can also helps the company to raise the demand.
Having this there can be a huge epic comeback that may come this year 2019.

I think it's none of your busineess. And that's what this currency is about

It was a very large transaction and was only done once if he planned to hold back a large amount of Bitcoin, because I really hope that the coins don't sell quickly.
Or maybe Bitcoin owners are big companies like exchangers or we can only think positively about it, with a large number of transactions between wallets proving there are no limits to transactions on the Blockchain.

Well there are alot of unknown big amount bitcoin holders in the cryptocurrency world
Well this is not to justify the authenticity of the transcation well if it was recorded and regarding that the blockchain technology is very transparent then it might be legit

I think such transactions are used for large market manipulations. With this amount you can easily do what you need with the market. Probably the big players do not sit and hoard these bitcoins, but actually use them to increase their funds for other purposes. We can only guess what is actually happening there. In general, it is useful to keep track of large transactions; you can predict a lot from such information.

similar large transactions occur every day and there is nothing surprising in this

you should mind your business, and leave this to people that are transferred the money, they know the risk and they are willing to take it