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A growing record of every notable Bitcoin on-chain signal print: long-dormant coins waking up, government wallets moving, exchanges collapsing, mempool storms. Each one its own page. Cite ChainQuery, screenshot the chart, send it.

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2024-07-23 cdd extreme
Sovereign + trustee distribution window (July 2024)
Two parallel coin-distribution sequences peak on the same day: the German BKA's final Movie2K sales and the start of the Mt. Gox trustee's ~140K BTC distribution to creditors. 59.6M BTC·days, z = 4.24.
2024-04-19 fee-pressure severe
Halving-eve fee spike + Runes launch
Block 840,000 (the fourth halving) and the launch of the Runes protocol coincide. Single-block fees peak at unprecedented levels as the halving block alone collects ~37.6 BTC in fees.
2024-03-23 cdd extreme
German government BTC distribution — wave 3 peak
Peak day of the German BKA's distribution of the Movie2K seizure. Coins seized in 2020 and dormant 3+ years move in coordinated transfers — 163M BTC·days, z = 8.34.
2023-05-07 fee-pressure severe
Ordinals storm — fastest tier $30+
Peak of the first ordinals-driven mempool storm. BRC-20 mints and Inscriptions fill blocks for weeks. Severe band sustained as fees reach ~700 sat/vB.
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2024-07-23 cdd extreme
Sovereign + trustee distribution window (July 2024)
Two parallel coin-distribution sequences peak on the same day: the German BKA's final Movie2K sales and the start of the Mt. Gox trustee's ~140K BTC distribution to creditors. 59.6M BTC·days, z = 4.24.
2024-03-23 cdd extreme
German government BTC distribution — wave 3 peak
Peak day of the German BKA's distribution of the Movie2K seizure. Coins seized in 2020 and dormant 3+ years move in coordinated transfers — 163M BTC·days, z = 8.34.
2022-11-18 cdd extreme
FTX post-collapse cold-wallet sweep
Ten days after FTX froze withdrawals, an extreme CDD print: 75.6M BTC·days, z = 5.44. Bankruptcy administration and forensics teams sweeping FTX-controlled cold wallets.
2022-10-18 cdd extreme
Pre-FTX-collapse internal movement (in hindsight)
Three weeks before FTX publicly froze withdrawals, an extreme CDD print: 55M BTC·days, z = 11.74. Probable Alameda/FTX internal cold-wallet movement as the balance-sheet pressure built.
2022-02-01 cdd extreme
DOJ moves 94,636 BTC from Bitfinex hack (pre-announcement)
Seven days before the public DOJ announcement, the seized Bitfinex coins moved on-chain — 198.7M BTC·days, z = 66.7. The keys were secured well before the press conference.
2021-04-14 cdd spike
Coinbase direct listing — peak OG selling
Coinbase goes public on NASDAQ. Major on-chain distribution from ancient coins peaks the same week. Bitcoin tops at ~$64K the next day before a multi-month drawdown.
2020-03-13 cdd spike
COVID crash — long-term holder capitulation
Bitcoin loses ~50% in 24 hours as global markets collapse. CDD spikes as panic selling pulls old coins out of cold storage and onto exchanges.
2017-12-17 cdd elevated
Bitcoin ATH at $19,783 — long-term holders distribute
Top of the 2017 cycle. CDD lands in the elevated band as years-dormant coins move to exchanges. A textbook OG-holder distribution pattern at a market top.
2016-08-02 cdd spike
Bitfinex hack — 119,756 BTC stolen
Bitfinex multisig wallets drained of 119,756 BTC. The stolen coins sat untouched for years, then began moving in 2022 as the DOJ pursued the Lichtenstein / Morgan investigation.
2014-03-07 cdd extreme
Mt. Gox post-bankruptcy on-chain unwind
Eleven days after Mt. Gox suspended withdrawals, the single-largest CDD print of the post-collapse window — 172.9M BTC·days. Trustee-era custody consolidation begins.
2014-02-05 cdd extreme
Mt. Gox pre-collapse on-chain warning sign
Largest CDD print of the entire 2014 era — 143.6M BTC·days, z = 56.6 — fully nineteen days before Mt. Gox publicly suspended withdrawals. The chain knew before the news did.
2010-05-22 cdd elevated
Laszlo's 10,000 BTC pizza
The first commercial Bitcoin transaction in history. 131 prior mining UTXOs spent for two pizzas — the canonical example of "ordinary day, lots of small mining rewards moving."
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