Small Bitcoin whales may be keeping BTC price from 'capitulation' — analysis
Amid distribution by the "giant" whales of Bitcoin, data shows that smaller ones are still resisting the urge to sell. Bitcoin (BTC) could still see a major price capitulation, but more whales need to start selling first, data suggests.In one of its daily QuickTake market updates on May 27, on-chain analytics platform CryptoQuant highlighted increasingly bearish whale behavior.Small whale selling should spark "absolute capitulation"Amid widespread consensus that BTC/USD should put in a lower low than its May 12 pivot price of $23,800, some of Bitcoin's largest holders are showing signs of....
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Recent metrics from a variety of analytical web portals show that the quantity of bitcoin whales has been shrinking in recent times. The data indicates that the leading crypto asset has been distributed quite a bit since the price run-up started.
Pods of Bitcoin Whales Shrink — Addresses With Small Quantities of Bitcoin Catch the Downward Distribution Cycle
Today, data shows that bitcoin whales are shrinking and metrics from bitinfocharts.com’s top 100 richest bitcoin addresses list compared to a whale count article Bitcoin.com News published on May 14, show....
Whale selling pressure is too great to preserve the bull market for now, one warning says, while similarities to 2017 provide a silver lining for hodlers. Bitcoin (BTC) is "confirming" a bear market because whales are still sending large amounts of BTC to exchanges.That's according to Ki Young Ju, CEO of on-chain analytics service CryptoQuant, who on June 21 warned over the "very uncertain" current state of Bitcoin. Too many whales spoil the market?Uploading a chart of the so-called "Whale Capitulation Index," Ki identified the first major spate of whale selling on exchanges since July....
Late yesterday afternoon, shortly after the markets closed in Europe, we published our twice-daily bitcoin price analysis piece, with a focus on the levels that we would be keeping an eye on throughout the US afternoon session and beyond, and highlighting how we would respond to price reaching these levels. We suggested that - with the recent range action we had seen being tightly contained, we could be due for a sharp break out in either direction in the event that the bitcoin price penetrated either in term support or resistance. As it turns out, we got this breakout early on Friday....
The number of Ethereum addresses holding at least 1,000 ETH dropped to a four-year low this week. Ethereum is having difficulty keeping its richest investors in line as its native token, Ether (ETH), hints at logging more losses in the near term.Blockchain data analytics service Glassnode revealed that the number of Ethereum addresses holding at least 1,000 ETH dropped to 6,292 this Monday, the lowest reading since April 2017. At its year-to-date peak, the numbers were 7,239 in January.Number of Ethereum addresses with balance of at least 1,000 ETH. Source: GlassnodeOn-chain analysts....
The XRP price has seen a sharp rally of over 39% in the past week as on-chain data shows the sharks and whales have been busy accumulating. XRP Sharks & Whales Now Carry Over 85% Of The Entire Supply According to data from the on-chain analytics firm Santiment, large XRP investors have been participating in buying for a while now. The indicator of relevance here is the “Supply Distribution,” which keeps track of the total amount of supply that a particular wallet group is currently holding. Related Reading: Bitcoin Bullish Signal: NVT Golden Cross Suggests BTC Oversold The....