#XRPETF After several weeks of tug-of-war, Bitcoin (BTC) is accelerating again with an increase of nearly 12% over the past 7 days, now approaching a strong resistance zone and nearing the psychological threshold of $100,000.

Positive signs are not only coming from the technical charts but also from the silent accumulation behavior of "whales" – a group of investors holding between 1,000 to 10,000 BTC.

Data from Santiment shows that the number of whale wallets has slightly increased, from 2,000 wallets on April 21 to the current 2,006 wallets.