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Briefly
- Bhutan transferred $22.4 million in Bitcoin over the previous week, with transactions despatched to Singapore-based market maker QCP Capital.
- The outflows included 184.03 BTC value $14.09 million on Wednesday and 100.82 BTC valued at $8.31 million 5 days earlier, in accordance with Arkham Intelligence.
- Analysts counsel the transactions might contain structured merchandise moderately than outright promoting, because the quantities are smaller than Bhutan's typical $50 million liquidation tranches.
Bhutan moved Bitcoin holdings to institutional market makers because the crypto market prolonged losses, although analysts say the transfers align with the dominion's established treasury operations moderately than distressed promoting.
Blockchain analytics platform Arkham confirmed two main outflows from Druk Holding Investments (DHI), Bhutan's sovereign funding arm, over the previous week.
Bhutan is promoting Bitcoin. pic.twitter.com/WDuUQmBZsU
— Arkham (@arkham) February 4, 2026
The transactions included 184.03 BTC value $14.09 million on Wednesday and 100.82 BTC valued at $8.31 million 5 days earlier, with the latter despatched on to labeled addresses tied to Singapore-based crypto asset buying and selling agency QCP Capital.
"I might suppose it's a routine operation. The quantity isn’t significantly huge," Peter Chung, head of analysis at Presto Analysis, informed Decrypt. "If this switch occurred every other time (when the market isn’t down a lot), it in all probability wouldn't obtain this kinda consideration."
The transfers occurred as Bitcoin fell beneath $72,000 for the primary time since November 2024. BTC is at the moment buying and selling at $71,299, down 6.1% on the day and almost 44% from its October 2025 all-time excessive of $126,080, in accordance with CoinGecko information.
On Myriad, a prediction platform owned by Decrypt’s guardian firm Dastan, customers at the moment value in an 89% probability of Bitcoin dropping to $69,000 forward of any rally to $100,000.
"The present volatility displays broader macro sensitivity moderately than any crypto-specific weak spot," Akshat Siddhant, Lead Quant Analyst at Mudrex, informed Decrypt. "Geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and Iran are additionally preserving threat urge for food in examine, although ongoing dialogue affords scope for sentiment to enhance."
Bhutan and Bitcoin
Bhutan started mining Bitcoin round 2019 utilizing its considerable hydroelectric energy, quietly accumulating digital belongings as a part of an financial diversification technique.
The dominion's renewable energy-powered mining operations have constructed one of many world's largest sovereign Bitcoin treasuries with out public disclosure till current years.
The Himalayan nation has emerged as one of many world's most crypto-forward governments, designating Bitcoin, Ethereum, and BNB as strategic reserves for Gelephu Mindfulness Metropolis, a chosen Particular Administrative Area.
In December, Bhutan pledged as much as 10,000 BTC to develop Gelephu Mindfulness Metropolis, an financial hub in southern Bhutan representing roughly $1 billion in sovereign reserves.
Decrypt has reached out to the town for remark.
In accordance with Arkham's evaluation, the current outflows are smaller than Bhutan's established patterns.
The dominion usually sells Bitcoin in roughly $50 million tranches, with significantly heavy gross sales between mid and late September 2025, when a number of transactions every exceeded $50 million, the platform tweeted.
"QCP Capital is understood for providing structured merchandise in crypto, which embody numerous choices methods that buyers use for revenue, accumulation, or hedging," Pratik Kala, head of analysis at Apollo Crypto, informed Decrypt.
"Whereas I can’t say with certainty why Bhutan despatched cash to QCP, I might guess that it's for a structured product as an alternative of outright promoting," Kala added.
DHI’s tracked wallets comprise about $412 million in crypto, largely concentrated in some 5,700 BTC, with little allocation to Ethereum and different belongings.
