Bitcoin long-term holders continuing to ‘soak up supply’ around $30K

[FMCPAY_GLOBAL]

Despite being underwater on a portion of BTC positions, data shows long-term holders continuing to accumulate Bitcoin in its current range.

Long-term Bitcoin holders appear to be the main driving force behind the current price action, with some actively accumulating and others realizing losses at an average of -27%. Despite the selling witnessed by some in the long-term holder cohort, the total supply held by these wallets recently returned to its all-time high of 13.048 million BTC.

(Source: Cointelegraph)

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[cahayaachilles]

News Update, BTC predicted prices up to 35k in jun 2022
Summary : Russia’s Ministry of Finance is considering allowing the use of cryptocurrencies for international trade, local news outlet Interfax reported on Friday. In March, the chairman of the country’s Congressional energy committee, Pavel Zavalny, said in a press conference that Russia was open to accepting bitcoin for its natural resources exports. Zavalny explained that only “friendly” countries like China and Turkey would be given the option, as President Vladimir Putin had said the day before that “unfriendly” countries should pay for Russian gas in rubles.
Source News Bitcoin Magazine : https://shrinke.me/78IGI

[Beparanf]

News Update, BTC predicted prices up to 35k in jun 2022
Summary : Russia’s Ministry of Finance is considering allowing the use of cryptocurrencies for international trade, local news outlet Interfax reported on Friday. In March, the chairman of the country’s Congressional energy committee, Pavel Zavalny, said in a press conference that Russia was open to accepting bitcoin for its natural resources exports. Zavalny explained that only “friendly” countries like China and Turkey would be given the option, as President Vladimir Putin had said the day before that “unfriendly” countries should pay for Russian gas in rubles.
Source News Bitcoin Magazine : https://shrinke.me/78IGI

Russia is cut-off to the rest of the world except for there allied country this news seems a short term hype for crypto but I still don't expect this kind of news will push Bitcoin to new ATH since there's still ongoing war while the upcoming recession is glooming.

In regards to the Bitcoin holder. This whales are institutional investors that keeps on feeding by the retail investors sold Bitcoin. They might be planning something that's why they are loading again but this kind of move is not good for retail investors that always play as an exit liquidity for whales.

[Easteregg69]

~8 trx per day on it. dividends. no price talk. BTC pays the TRX.

Sums to everyone who gets crypto dividends gets in touch with BTC on some stage.

Trouble is when you forget the link. fiat "Don't answer if you where not asked".

Answer first. Questions later.

[GreatArkansas]

When Bitcoin dropped below $30,000 a few days ago, I am for sure a lot of people started to buy on that level. A lot of people waited that time especially since last year we reach the all-time-high, and that is more than 50% drop and yeah, good to buy also for me.
I even bought some bitcoin when it started to drop below $30,000.

[buwaytress]

I wonder if it's the same in the stock markets really. Big tech ones like Mr Musk's own is still down more than 50% from ATH (same as Bitcoin really) and if there are stubborn long-termer Bitcoiners soaking up all the sell orders, I suspect the same is happening elsewhere across the board with global markets. Forex, stocks, commodities. Just believers biting down hard and coping.

Didn't mean to sound like a dampened blanket, just wondering if/when Bitcoin will shrug off the correlation this year.

[bitmover]

I wonder if it's the same in the stock markets really. Big tech ones like Mr Musk's own is still down more than 50% from ATH (same as Bitcoin really) and if there are stubborn long-termer Bitcoiners soaking up all the sell orders, I suspect the same is happening elsewhere across the board with global markets. Forex, stocks, commodities. Just believers biting down hard and coping.

Many people wait years for times like this. Everything looks "cheap" imo. And there are good buying opportunities everywhere.

The whole S&P is down nearly 15% from ATH.

It is now different than in the pandemic. In march 2020 when the world was closed, the markets recovered very quickly.
Now there is FUD everywhere: World War, pandemia in China, long term inflation all over the globe....

This is the time to be brave, when we see blood and fear all over the place.

This is the time to buy good ETF, Bitcoin (maybe ETH if you like). I would not try some high-risk shitcoin now neither small caps.

[Baofeng]

I wonder if it's the same in the stock markets really. Big tech ones like Mr Musk's own is still down more than 50% from ATH (same as Bitcoin really) and if there are stubborn long-termer Bitcoiners soaking up all the sell orders, I suspect the same is happening elsewhere across the board with global markets. Forex, stocks, commodities. Just believers biting down hard and coping.

Didn't mean to sound like a dampened blanket, just wondering if/when Bitcoin will shrug off the correlation this year.

I thought it has de-coupled a week ago, when bitcoin goes ~$30k, stocks soars. But this is just short lived though as both market finally have a good break out run.

But yeah, bitcoin long term holders will always take advantage and whenever they can, will build their wallets again with this cheap bitcoins from those panic sellers. And so let's see if we can get the numbers at least $32k at the end of the week.

[Wind_FURY]

I believe we might be in that phase when everyone else starts to think that Bitcoin has reached the bottom of the current cycle, and that it couldn't go down further anymore. BUT remember when Bitcoin was crabbing around $6,000 during 2018, and then it crashed down to $3,000 in November, 2018? Bitcoin $29,000 might be the new $6,000.

I wonder if it's the same in the stock markets really. Big tech ones like Mr Musk's own is still down more than 50% from ATH (same as Bitcoin really) and if there are stubborn long-termer Bitcoiners soaking up all the sell orders, I suspect the same is happening elsewhere across the board with global markets. Forex, stocks, commodities. Just believers biting down hard and coping.

Didn't mean to sound like a dampened blanket, just wondering if/when Bitcoin will shrug off the correlation this year.

I thought it has de-coupled a week ago, when bitcoin goes ~$30k, stocks soars. But this is just short lived though as both market finally have a good break out run.

But yeah, bitcoin long term holders will always take advantage and whenever they can, will build their wallets again with this cheap bitcoins from those panic sellers. And so let's see if we can get the numbers at least $32k at the end of the week.

But when the Federal Reserve turns off the tap, I believe the U.S. markets affect ALL markets around the globe, and it has always been that way as long as the U.S. is the global leader, and having the largest economy.

[Oasisman]

Despite being underwater on a portion of BTC positions, data shows long-term holders continuing to accumulate Bitcoin in its current range.

People may have learned not to miss the accumulation phase.  The current Btc price is more than -50% from the last ATH, I guess that's almost 60% loss. So, this current region where Btc has been revolving might be the bottom of this bearish period.
Nevertheless, when Btc continue to dip, we are going to expect more accumulations. Bottom price wouldn't fall below $20k most probably, judging on how investors are reacting with the current Btc position.

[NotATether]

Long-term Bitcoin holders appear to be the main driving force behind the current price action, with some actively accumulating and others realizing losses at an average of -27%. Despite the selling witnessed by some in the long-term holder cohort, the total supply held by these wallets recently returned to its all-time high of 13.048 million BTC.

This raises an interesting question. What is the maximum about of BTC these wallets can collect before their price increasing power diminishes? I believe probably when they buy almost the entire supply.

One would think that would happen when they own near the total minted supply. We're already at 13 million out of 18 million collected by these wallets, maybe they got to get their hands on 1 or 2 million more BTC to push us out of the water.

[Mauser]

I am really surprised about the strong buyers in the market right now. Every time the bitcoin price drops below 30,000 USD there are buyers in the market to push the price back up on the next day. For bitcoins I am getting price notification if the price changes more than 3% in a single day. For every price drop notification I get a notification that the price is rising again, it's really funny. What surprises me the most is that so many big investors said they would buy heavily around the 20,000 USD barrier, but now they must have switched to 30,000 USD. At the current climate I don't see the bitcoin price to drop any lower.

[avikz]

Despite being underwater on a portion of BTC positions, data shows long-term holders continuing to accumulate Bitcoin in its current range.

Isn't it the most sensible thing to do? We all are hearing since a long time - buy low and sell high. Now that the bitcoin price is seeing a strong resistance at 29k, why wouldn't anyone buy it if they have the money?

I personally am accumulating it. I can't be accumulating a whole lot because my pocket wouldn't support that. But I have started diverting at least 40% of my monthly savings to bitcoin.

[pooya87]

Long-term Bitcoin holders appear to be the main driving force behind the current price action,

It is obvious that smart money is always entering the market when we are in a dip and accumulates while everyone else is panicking and either sell or refuse to buy at a massive discount.

But there is no "price action" yet, bitcoin price has been going up and down in the same range for the past 23 days. When price goes to $25k it is not some doomsday dump to $0 and when it goes to $35k it is not some pump to the moon reaching $100k moment. It is just normal fluctuations during an accumulation phase before the jump which can't be predicted.

[Don Pedro Dinero]

When I saw the title of the thread, for a moment I thought it was a news item from last year that someone had bumped.

Despite being underwater on a portion of BTC positions, data shows long-term holders continuing to accumulate Bitcoin in its current range.

Long-term Bitcoin holders appear to be the main driving force behind the current price action, with some actively accumulating and others realizing losses at an average of -27%. Despite the selling witnessed by some in the long-term holder cohort, the total supply held by these wallets recently returned to its all-time high of 13.048 million BTC.

(Source: Cointelegraph)

I remember hearing that several times between October and December last year and then not quite being able to explain how, if there was less and less liquid supply, the price peaked in early November, and then started to fall from there. I suppose that when it started to fall it was because at least some of those people moved their bitcoins into liquid supply to sell them.

I mean, this does not guarantee anything either. It's normal to have people buying if we are at a low price for this cycle, but you never know if some of those people who are buying are going to sell in a month or two because of some future event that we don't know about.

[buwaytress]

I wonder if it's the same in the stock markets really. Big tech ones like Mr Musk's own is still down more than 50% from ATH (same as Bitcoin really) and if there are stubborn long-termer Bitcoiners soaking up all the sell orders, I suspect the same is happening elsewhere across the board with global markets. Forex, stocks, commodities. Just believers biting down hard and coping.

Many people wait years for times like this. Everything looks "cheap" imo. And there are good buying opportunities everywhere.

The whole S&P is down nearly 15% from ATH.

It is now different than in the pandemic. In march 2020 when the world was closed, the markets recovered very quickly.
Now there is FUD everywhere: World War, pandemia in China, long term inflation all over the globe....

This is the time to be brave, when we see blood and fear all over the place.

This is the time to buy good ETF, Bitcoin (maybe ETH if you like). I would not try some high-risk shitcoin now neither small caps.

Yeah, without really looking (guess Google on this device thinks I'm a guy with money to slosh around and buy stocks) I'm already seeing plenty of news on important figures re-upping on tech stocks down over 50% (didn't know til recently it's a thing to follow politicians and lobbyists buying stocks). I'd wager the very same guys are moving in on Bitcoin too.

They're probably all ready to lose even more if the market turns even further down (which I think it will) but they're firmly in the holder/stacker mentality with future timeframes of years.

As you said, no better indicator than massive FUD to tell you it's a buying opportunity.

Full disclosure: The last time I bought a shitcoin was in 2017, but I DID put $50 into a pure low-cap shitcoin this year, now less than $20 ha ha ha.

[Zlantann]

I have been privileged or fortunate to start investing in Bitcoin when the price was below $31,000. There have been so much analysis and speculation s by economist and cryptocurrency analysts but I am very confident that Bitcoin is the best investment for me. I am willing to take the risk and follow Bitcoin to the deep or the pump. Each time I open my wallet I see the red signs, but recently the green signs are more frequent. But the news of long-term holders buying more is good news because I believe it has the tendency of pushing up the price of Bitcoin.

[hZti]

It's temporary. Everything will return to normal price

Question is what a normal BTC Price is, because it is for sure not the price of the ATH. In my opinion the average price of bitcoin would be around 500 USD, so lets not hope it returns there even if that would be a good buy opportunity.
Also lets not forget that bitcoin tends to flash crash from time to time.

[Yaunfitda]

I have been privileged or fortunate to start investing in Bitcoin when the price was below $31,000.

Good for you. And currently, as the price march to $32k, you might see some good profits already.

There have been so much analysis and speculation s by economist and cryptocurrency analysts but I am very confident that Bitcoin is the best investment for me. I am willing to take the risk and follow Bitcoin to the deep or the pump. Each time I open my wallet I see the red signs, but recently the green signs are more frequent. But the news of long-term holders buying more is good news because I believe it has the tendency of pushing up the price of Bitcoin.

I do hope that you don't just believed those speculators and economist, because there is no expert here. Everyone is free to throw some random numbers and that's it. Long term holders as using a lot of strategy to maximized the price that they are going to buy. So we might as well learn from them on how to accumulate, like buying at the dip and DCA.

[xSkylarx]

I believe we might be in that phase when everyone else starts to think that Bitcoin has reached the bottom of the current cycle, and that it couldn't go down further anymore. BUT remember when Bitcoin was crabbing around $6,000 during 2018, and then it crashed down to $3,000 in November, 2018? Bitcoin $29,000 might be the new $6,000.

So you're saying we can dive deeper 50% from $29,000 which is below $20k? Who's going to sell below that price? We've been above $20k for more than a year now so I assume many people bought above that price. It will take some whales or institution selling for the price to tank that deep. If price really goes that low, I'm pretty sure it won't last that long because it will be a big opportunity to small investors to buy some bitcoin for their future.