It’s now becoming certain that a significant number of investors are grabbing flagship crypto asset, Bitcoin, for wealth gains, as about 12.6% of Bitcoin supply is held by investors who bought at over a $30,000 price tag.
- Data retrieved from Glassnode reveals 12.6% of the Bitcoin supply (2.3 million BTC) was moved at prices above $30,000.
- This is substantial, given that $BTC crossed $30k just this year. It suggests that investors are injecting capital, and therefore confidence in further price appreciation.
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12.6% of the #Bitcoin supply (2.3M BTC) was moved at prices above $30,000 USD.
This is substantial, given that $BTC crossed $30k just this year. It suggests investors are injecting capital, and therefore confidence in further price appreciation.
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— glassnode (@glassnode) January 25, 2021
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Also, the number of addresses holding 1,000 BTC just reached a new all-time high of 2,446.
What this means: Over the last 21 days, 141 new whale addresses with over 1,000 BTC were created, suggesting large entities are expecting a significant price rise for Bitcoin in the near future.
- The total amount of capital inflows into Bitcoin in the past 30 days (as estimated by the realized cap), is as high as the whole $BTC market cap in Sept 2017 and early 2019 at $70 billion USD.
Bitcoin is seeing the largest depletion of liquidity in years. - Not only are funds being withdrawn from exchanges, but coins are continuously moving to strong hands.
- In the past 30 days, around 270,000 BTC moved to entities considered HODLers.
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At press time, Bitcoin traded at $32,208.24 with a daily trading volume of $58.9 billion. It is down 0.50% for the day.
It has a circulating supply of 18,611,475 BTC coins and a max. supply of 21,000,000 BTC coins.
Chainalysis found that although retail traders are responsible for 96% of transactions, professionals move the bulk of the volume.
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“Retail traders, whom we categorize as those who deposit less than $10,000 USD worth of Bitcoin on exchanges at a time, appear to be the large majority, accounting for 96% of all transfers sent to exchanges on an average weekly basis.
“Professional traders, however, control the liquidity of the market, accounting for 85% of all the USD value of Bitcoin value sent to exchanges,” it said.
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The report continued by stating:
“Bitcoin moving from the investment bucket (or potentially even the lost bucket if the earliest adopters still have their private keys) into the trading bucket could become a crucial source of liquidity.
“However, one would expect this will only happen if Bitcoin’s price rises to a level at which long-term investors are willing to sell.”