When coins on spot exchanges drop, it's a sign that new buyers are coming in to scoop coins off the markets and moving them into cold storage HODL, we are seeing new HODLers right now. Very macro bullish.
It's even more exaggerated with global exchanges.
First scoop up of coins coincided with WSJ press coverage of Bitcoin as a legitimate investment vehicle off the back of the Winklevoss ETF news. It fueled the 2017 bull market.
The latest coincides with @michael_saylor's timeline of research into buying Bitcoin for $MSTR.
ELI5:
Every business operation on the network that earns revenue in BTC will sell BTC to pay for operational costs, this represents a constant sell pressure on the network.
Data presented here are the actual numbers.
This study illustrates how we can't just assume the 4 year halvening of miners sell pressure will just keep us locked into a 4 year cycle.
There are other important factors at play in 2021... The newer impacts will further dilute mining influence as the ecosystem matures.
I posted this map of the BTC supply distribution, but many asked "but what does this mean?".
Well, it says quite a lot, this is the whole ecosystem talking to us. Since people didn't see what I though was in plain sight, I'll break it down and add a bit more colour.
Bitcoin continues to distribute coins evenly. Publicly held and retail entities continue to gain more control of the supply while whales are reducing their control.
Remember the gold standard failed as a monetary standard due to centralisation of the supply
2) Retail drives macro cycles. When retail stack their sats at an increased rate, like they are doing right now, it's the fundamentals saying we are in the middle of a bull market.
I repeat; middle of a bull market. Traders in disbelief 2 months ago when this data was shown.
Ethereum supply shock well and truly at all time highs.
Looks like the market overpriced it in May but is probably underpricing it July / August.
Switching to an oscillator view of this, it's moving out of its no-brainer buy zone with the latest rally. But importantly, despite short term technicals being quite warm, it's far from over-bought on fundamentals.
Note: the latest supply burn from EIP-1559 is not accounted for in Glassnode data. But it should not impact these metrics just yet (~0.01% impact on this indicator for now). Glassnode will be rolling in EIP-1559 burn data soon.