A thread of on-chain signals which suggest the Bitcoin bottom is in, or very close. In my opinion, these are the most important on-chain metrics today. Based on Bitcoin's 13 year history, they are telling me this is an extraordinary opportunity.
Adoption all-time-high. Despite a $10B fraud by FTX, Bitcoin adoption is screaming higher. We are witnessing one of the highest growth rates in addresses with >0.1 Bitcoin in history, seconded only by 2017. More and more people are locking away 1000s of dollars of Bitcoin.
There have been only 4 periods ever of price below global Bitcoin Electrical Cost. A price point which has been a historical floor for Bitcoin. All looked like incredible buys in hindsight. You wanted to buy below electrical cost? We had a month there and now it's gone.
Price is trading at a 55% discount to Bitcoin Energy Value, Bitcoin's fair value priced using pure watts of energy in the network. That's the biggest discount since price hit $4K on 13 March 2020 and $160 on 14 January 2015. Bitcoin was 100X smaller then. Fair value today: $41K.
Bitcoin miner selling stress is at the 3rd highest of all time. The other times this occurred, price was at $290 and $2. I would love to have bought Bitcoin then.
Deep value. Hash Ribbons has confirmed a miner capitulation. This is perhaps the best performing long-term buy signal for Bitcoin. A price low typically forms during the capitulation. Sometimes the first candle of the miner capitulation is the low.
Dynamic Range NVT, the Bitcoin "PE Ratio", is once again in the green zone. This tells us the network is priced cheap versus the transaction value flowing through on-chain. My guess is we probably wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the FTX fraud, but somewhere in the mid-$20s.
The SLRV Ribbons finally crossed bullish at $16.6K. This was one of the last major on-chain metric to flip bullish at the lows. You can read more about this strategy and how it beats buy-and-hold here: medium.com/capriole/slrv-…
Dormancy Flow has spent much of the last months at all-time-lows. Per creator @dpuellARK:
"whenever dormancy value overtakes market capitalization at lowest longitudinal levels, the market can be considered in full capitulation — a good historical buy zone."
More deep value.
We have an all-time-high in long-term hodling. Those keeping Bitcoin at least 1 year now represent more of the network than ever before, 66%. Prior peaks of long-term holding all aligned with bear market toughs.
Many of these same long-term holders are in a deep downdraw. Downdraws have hit prior halving cycle lows in the -80% region. Sure it can always go a bit lower, but to me it's clear where the risk-reward is skewed on long-term holder NUPL.
Looking at the main stablecoins USDC and USDT, the market is more hedged than ever before. People are not parking their savings in stablecoins if they are leaving this industry, this is dry powder waiting to be deployed. More than likely it will fomo into the next major rally.
MVRV Z-score, today's market is priced incredibly cheap based on Realized Value. Depth and duration look uncannily similar to the prior cycle bottoms too.
Finally, it's not just the data that is screaming "Bitcoin is cheap", but we are also situated smack-bang in the bottom zone for every prior Bitcoin halving cycle. This is where sentiment has always bottomed and the best long-term investments were made.
Summary:
✅Incredible miner stress and capitulation
✅Long-term holder capitulation
✅All-time-high adoption
✅All-time-high hodling
✅Largest ever store of stablecoin dry powder
✅Massive discounts on NVT, MVRV, Dormancy, +
✅Optimal cycle timing for a bottom
For me, these are the most important Bitcoin investment metrics. But please do your own research, this is not investment advice. This thread focused only on on-chain data. I personally primarily invest using autonomous trading algorithms that manage my risk with @capriole_fund.
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Trump's "Liberation Day" saw new tariffs almost double what the market expected. Markets immediately nuked, pricing in a significant hit to GDP.
The S&P has now gapped below technical support, with the next region of major support being approx -8% lower at 4300-4600.
THE GOOD
1. CNN Fear and Greed is now firmly in the dip zone as extreme fear floods markets. This doesn't necessarily mean the absolute bottom is in, but is generally at least a local opportunity.
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This is the industry I am most bullish on today.
Imagine buying Bitcoin at $500.
How it works?
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When QCs solve problems, they explore many paths in parallel, making them exponentially faster today's tech.
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The potential will blow your 🤯
What it solves
QC will power the next frontier of problem solving across all industries; including finance, health sciences, drug and material discovery and AI.
All computing as we know it is about to be flipped.
Problems which are unsolvable today, will be. QC will solve problems we don't even know we have yet.
US Bitcoin ETFs have acquired 200% of the Bitcoin mined since launch in mid-January.
At $71K, Bitcoin is up 50% since the ETFs launched, but many are asking why not more?
But we are battling against a bigger force:
Long-term holder selling.
Hodler's, those that have held 2+ years, share of total supply has dropped from the 57% all time high in December 2023 to just 54% today. While -3% doesn't sound like much, that's the same as about 630K Bitcoin, or about 300% of the total amount purchased by _all_ of the Bitcoin ETFs in the US this year.
As we can see from prior cycles, selling into price appreciation is typical behaviour, and a good amount of this will also simply be changing hands from Grayscales ETF to the new ETFs, exaggerating the decline.
We haven't seen the impacts of the Halving yet.
With the daily Bitcoin issuance dropping by 50% in April, we will likely see the delta between ETF consumption and Bitcoin mined widen a lot over the next year. It also takes full quarters for institutions to review, sign-off and allocate (at best). So the major ETF flows are likely still ahead of us.
The other primary factor to consider here is it's June. Summer is a typical lull in the market and a risk off period for many major asset managers.
Perhaps the most important factor is USD Liquidity has been flat and slightly negative since the March Bitcoin top.
When the tap turns off, risk assets have an uphill battle.
Forget price targets. This is a list of cycle top signals to watch.
How far away is the cycle top? Is it in?
1. Supply Delta + 90 Day CDD
These two metrics are great at identifying cycle tops. After they go vertical, watch for a rounded top in both metrics. Both these metrics have gone vertical today.
A thread covering 10 on-chain metrics I created.
Here's what they say about Bitcoin today and where we go from here...
A new chapter has begun.
Bitcoin Energy Value. Bitcoin's intrinsic value priced from the pure Joules of energy into the network only. No wacky formulas, no power laws. Energy alone maps the fair value of Bitcoin from inception. Currently at $70K, making Bitcoin fairly valued for the first time in 2 yrs.
SLRV Ribbons. This shows the trend in the ratio of short-term to long-term holders. SLRV Ribbon uptrends usually isolate the best returning Bitcoin risk-on periods (purple). The trend still looks very strong today.
If Bitcoin's post Halving returns are the same as 2020, we are looking at $280K Bitcoin next year.
You might reasonably argue this cycle's returns are less than 2020.
However, I believe the 2020 cycle performance was mediocre and an outlier.
2020 was the worst Bitcoin bull market in history. I believe overall performance was pinned down due to the -50% destruction of mining network by China _and_ the most aggressive Fed tightening cycle in history.
These were two massive, stagnating forces on Bitcoin. The magnitudes of which we are highly unlikely to see again in the next 2 years.
In fact, 2024 marks the polar opposite to 2021.
QE has resumed and the Fed has started easing, with Fed chair Powell expecting 3 cuts this year.