On-Chain Data Shows Bitcoin Whales Hold Fort Despite Recent Dips
September 16 2021 - 3:00PM
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On-chain data shows Bitcoin whales haven’t budged despite the
recent dips, and are rather continuing to accumulate more. Whales
Continue To Accumulate More Bitcoin As pointed out by a CryptoQuant
post, the Bitcoin sum coin age (SCA) indicator has been going up,
showing long-term holders are continuing to accumulate. The SCA is
a BTC metric that tells us about the distribution of long-term
holders. It’s calculated by taking the product of the UTxO (Unspent
Transaction Output) alive days and the UTxO value. The “age” of a
coin is measured in “coin days.” When a certain amount of BTC
remains unspent for a day, it accumulates some fraction of a “coin
day.” One whole Bitcoin remaining unspent accumulates one coin day.
Similarly, if half a coin remains unspent for a day, it picks up
half (0.5) a coin day. With the help of the indicator, it becomes
possible to tell what the sentiment among long-term holders is. A
dip in the metric’s value would suggest that whales have started
moving their coins, while an increase would imply they are
continuing their accumulation. Now, here is a chart that highlights
the trend of the SCA vs the BTC price: The Bitcoin SCA seems to be
climbing straight up | Source: CryptoQuant As you can see in the
above chart, the SCA had a minor dip late July, but since then the
indicator has been going up in a straight line. Related Reading
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Affect The Price? The dip occurred when the BTC price made a peak,
implying some long-term holders decided to sell their coins and
take the profits. However, these holders were in the minority as
most of the whales still held fort and continued to accumulate,
creating the recent straight line trend. Related Reading | New To
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Also, as the graph shows, the recent crash in BTC’s price from
above $50k to as low as $43k wasn’t enough to make these whales
budge from their positions. The trend shows that these investors
believe the price will appreciate further, and thus they continue
their accumulation. BTC Price At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s
price floats around $47.5k, up 1% in the last 7 days. Over the past
month, the crypto has accumulated 4% in gains. The below chart
shows the trend in the price of the coin over the last five days:
BTC's price seems to be moving down right now | Source: BTCUSD on
TradingView After continuing some strong upwards movement over the
past few days, Bitcoin looks to be heading down now. It’s unclear
if this trajectory would hold, but considering that the famous
golden cross has appeared, the market may be bullish.
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