1/9 Today #Bitcoin saw its first $10k daily candle

The problem: it was to the downside πŸ“‰πŸ˜…

A 🧡 using some on-chain data to have a look at what happened, assess the damage & a possible outlook πŸ€•
2/9 Today's on-chain movements were similar to those of last week:

1) Most of the coins moving were relatively young πŸ‘Ά

2) Short-term holders are now at net unrealized loss levels not seen since the March 2020 market crash 😱

3) ..and appear to be capitulating those losses πŸͺ¦ ImageImageImage
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..? πŸ‘€ Image
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 🐳

During today's dip, there also were a few huge net outflows - a possible sign that a big entity is shopping at a discount πŸ’Έ Image
5/9 Today's $10k daily candle was breathtaking to experience 😨

Price bounced back +30% from its low & appears to be forming a beautiful capitulation wick 🌹

Can today's candle even close above its 200-day moving average? ...and who is doing that heavy buying on Coinbase? πŸ‘€ Image
6/9 As you would expect on such a bloody Tuesday, a lot of longs were liquidated πŸͺ¦

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! 😯 Image
7/9 Earlier today I tweeted that I was worried about the positive funding rate ()

This is no longer the case. Not only did leveraged longs get flushed out - the market is now net short πŸ‘€

There is now a 🐳 incentive to pump the price & liquidate shorts Image
8/9 The big question: is this the end of the bull market..? πŸ€”

We have a @glassnode, but not a crystal ball πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

I don't think this was it. Like I tweeted earlier today (), I would expect more HODLers selling, e.g. moving RHODL & Reserve Risk into the red ImageImage
9/9 If this indeed was not end of the bull market, it would mean that we have just experienced the largest bull market drawdown since 2013 πŸ’ͺ

These are extremely volatile times - stay safe out there (e.g., don't use leverage but just buy dips via spot or DCA)! ✌️ Image

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21 May
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

This 🧡 summarizes the article πŸ‘‡

bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/bitc…
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? Image
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 Image
Read 7 tweets
13 May
1/9 About 9 hours ago, Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla would stop accepting #Bitcoin for payments out of environmental concerns, crashing price by -$8.7k (-16%) to just below $46k

Something smells fishy here though.. 🐟

A 🧡 with some on-chain data ⛓️

2/9 First, there's the inconsistency:
- On April 22nd, Elon agreed with Jack that #Bitcoin incentivizes renewable energy
- On May 11th, his latest tweet before this was a poll where he asked if Tesla should accept $DOGE as a payment option; which is also a Proof-of-Work coin
3/9 Then there's also the inconsistency that Tesla is apparently still comfortable holding #Bitcoin

As pointed out by @yassineARK, its energy consumption is there to secure past transactions

Are they THAT unaware, or is something else going on? πŸ€”

Read 10 tweets
11 May
1/6 During yesterday's mini-dip, I saw unrest in my feed & some people were pinging me if I was still bullish on #Bitcoin

To me this was nothing but another shake-out of weak hands and leverage, while nothing changed regarding the big picture πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

A short 🧡 on (not) getting rekt
2/6 So, what happened?

Simple: as soon as #Bitcoin set a new local high and dipped a bit, there was a steep uptick in people aping in long on leverage again 🦍

As always, this is a recipe for getting rekt - which is exactly what happened a few hours later 🀦 Image
3/6 Meanwhile, there were large stablecoin inflows to exchanges and large #bitcoin outflows from OTC desks - both signs that there is some serious dip buying going on

"Thanks for the liquidity, (rekt) apes!" 🐳🎩 Image
Read 6 tweets
8 May
1/10 Recently, I became convinced that the #bitcoin price simply went up too fast and this consolidation is functioning as a re-accumulation phase

IMO the January local top was the turnaround point in the market structure πŸ”οΈ

I'll elaborate in this 🧡 with some on-chain data ⛓️
2/10 During the January local top, the #bitcoin price went up FAST πŸ₯΅

Compared to 2017, this run-up happened:
1) at an earlier post-halving date
2) at a faster acceleration, and
3) to a higher degree (reached a 🌑️ of 7 - which in 2017 it only reached during the blow-off top)
3/10 Due to the rapid price increase, unrealized profits were sky high, triggering an increasing number of entities to take profits

Since the January local top, profit-taking cooled down to pre-ATH levels - despite the #bitcoin price itself still grinding up πŸ‘€
Read 11 tweets
4 May
1/7 Short 🧡 on the recent hash rate drop in #Bitcoin, its recovery and the impact of that on several on-chain metrics ⛓️

On April 16th, hash rate on #Bitcoin had a steep decline related to to a power outage in China, to which it is now recovering - it even approaches new ATH's
2/7 As a result of the hash rate drop, block interval times increased, which means that blocks were temporarily being produced at a (much) slower pace than the normal 10 blocks/min

As miners came back online & mining difficulty adjusted downwards, blocks are now coming in fast
3/7 Blocks coming in at a faster pace has done wonders for the mempool congestion & related transaction fees, making on-chain #Bitcoin transactions cheaper again

Over the past 24 hours, miners were even churning through the mempool transactions paying a 5 sat/vByte fee
Read 7 tweets
2 May
Monthly #Bitcoin market analysis meta-thread 🧡

Since January 2021, I am doing a market analysis at the start of each month, assessing on-chain & other valuation models πŸ“ˆ

This meta-thread links them together for future reference πŸ”—

January 2021:
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