1/9 Today #Bitcoin saw its first $10k daily candle
The problem: it was to the downside ππ
A 𧡠using some on-chain data to have a look at what happened, assess the damage & a possible outlook π€
2/9 Today's on-chain movements were similar to those of last week:
1) Most of the coins moving were relatively young πΆ
2) Short-term holders are now at net unrealized loss levels not seen since the March 2020 market crash π±
3) ..and appear to be capitulating those losses πͺ¦
3/9 The young coins that were likely capitulating were a possible sign of inexperienced market participants (e.g. retail) capitulating
Today we also saw a huge uptick in #Bitcoin dominance: altcoins were bleeding (much) harder
Another possible sign of retail capitulation..? π
4/9 If we zoom in on the last 2 weeks (on a 10-min resolution), we see that over the last week, there were some huge net exchange inflows π³
During today's dip, there also were a few huge net outflows - a possible sign that a big entity is shopping at a discount πΈ
5/9 Today's $10k daily candle was breathtaking to experience π¨
Price bounced back +30% from its low & appears to be forming a beautiful capitulation wick πΉ
Can today's candle even close above its 200-day moving average? ...and who is doing that heavy buying on Coinbase? π
6/9 As you would expect on such a bloody Tuesday, a lot of longs were liquidated πͺ¦
Today's liquidations weren't more extreme than those in Feb-Apr. However, these didn't come after reaching a new all-time high - but during what appeared to be a capitulation event! π―
7/9 Earlier today I tweeted that I was worried about the positive funding rate (
2/11 Money can be defined as "the most salable good to transfer value across space and time"
#Bitcoin can be seamlessly transferred across both space and time thanks to its digital nature and 21-million maximum supply
3/11 When valuing #bitcoin, those aspects need to be taken into account
Some models focus on scarcity (e.g., @100trillionUSD's S2F models), whereas others may look at its transactional capacity (e.g., @woonomic's Network-Value-to-Transactions (NVT) Price model)
2/5 The first concept to grasp is that of Realized Value (RV), introduced by @nic__carter & @khannib in 2018
RV is the total value of all circulating coins at the last time they moved on-chain, therefore representing the estimated cost-base of all existing #bitcoin
3/5 Briefly after, @kenoshaking & @MustStopMurad divided the total #bitcoin Market Value (MV) by the RV, creating a groundbreaking metric called the MVRV Ratio
A pseudonym called Awe and Wonder then iterated upon it by standardizing it ((MV-RV)/MVsd), creating the MVRV Z-Score
2/17 Last year, @Glassnode learned that when an Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO) is >155 days old, its has a relatively low probability of being spent
Based on this, they created Short-Term Holder (STH) and Long-Term Holder (LTH) supply metrics
3/17 If you divide @glassnode's LTH supply by the circulating #bitcoin supply, you get a LTH Supply Ratio that quantifies the portion of the supply that is estimated to belong to LTHs
2/22 Since mid-April, China came down hard on #Bitcoin, banning its institutions to offer #bitcoin services, censoring related search results and shutting down mining operations in recent weeks
Hash rate dropped ~50%, to levels not seen since briefly after last year's halving π€
3/22 A result of the hash rate drop is that #Bitcoin blocks are coming in much slower than the usual 10 minute block intervals
In fact; block creation slowed down to more than twice the intended interval & levels not seen in >11 years, illustrating the magnitude of this drop π€―
1/25 @BitcoinMagazine just posted the first edition of a new monthly series titled 'Cycling On-Chain', in which on-chain and price-related data are used to estimate where in #Bitcoin's market cycle we are
2/25 Just like the periods after the 2012 and 2016 halvings, the 2020 #Bitcoin halving created a supply shock that triggered an exponential price increase
However, compared to the previous one, this cycle got heated much faster π₯΅
3/25 When the #bitcoin price ran towards and beyond its previous (2017) all-time high at $20k, market participants increasingly started to secure profits
After the January local top, this profit-taking has been decreasing - despite price still grinding up until recently
1/7 Just published an article at @BitcoinMagazine that uses on-chain data visualizations to explain how #Bitcoin's difficulty adjustment mechanism works & how it relates to hash rate, block intervals, fees & the mempool
2/7 #Bitcoin reaches its 21 million hard cap by starting with a 50 BTC block subsidy and halving that each 210k blocks, until the block subsidy falls away after 33 halvings
#Bitcoin needs block intervals of ~10 min to ensure these halvings are spread out over ~4 years. But why?
3/7 If #Bitcoin had a fixed difficulty, it would have had an adoption threshold if it started high, or quickly run through its supply issuance schedule if it started low
Relatively stable block interval times are needed to spread out miner incentives & ensure stable throughput