Supply Shock: Lost Or Held Bitcoin Are Now Outpacing New Circulating Coins
Bitcoin is once again trading above $11,500 after a retest of $10,000 was quickly bought up. A variety of factors are beginning to have an influence over supply and demand, and appear to be tipping the scales in favor of price appreciation. One specific metric could be particularly crucial to the increase in value recently, and it could be causing demand to far outweigh any BTC supply available to buyers. Bitcoin Held Or Lost Coin […]
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Circulating, maximum and total supply are all essential metrics for an investor’s price discovery. Find out here what they are and how they can be used. Total supply vs. maximum and circulating supplyCirculating and maximum supply are equally important in their own use, and understanding their implication vs. the total supply can help assess their impact on the cryptocurrency’s price.How a price may change in the future is a crucial assessment for an investor who could plan a different strategy depending on how each metric performs against the total supply. Total and circulating supply can....
The "Whales Supply Shock" metric has been pretty accurate in detecting Bitcoin market tops. Bitcoin's (BTC) biggest investors have been lately upping their reserves in sync with the ongoing price recovery, one Glassnode metric suggests.Dubbed as "Whale Supply Shock," the on-chain indicator represents the ratio between the amount of Bitcoin held by "whales" and "fishes." Whales represent addresses that hold between 10,000 BTC and 100,000 BTC, while fishes are those that hold anything between 0.001 BTC and 1,000 BTC.A rising Whale Supply Shock reading indicates a higher degree of....
Bitcoin price is appreciating at full steam because the market consists of nothing but buyers at the moment. Those who already own the abundance of the currently circulating supply are holding strong and refusing to sell. However, data shows that nearly 20% of the entire circulating supply hasn’t moved in seven years. Are those coins held by the strongest holders yet, or are there other reasons the large share of BTC supply hasn’t moved in […]
Percentage of the Bitcoin supply on exchanges has dipped further down to 12% recently, as the supply shock continues to deepen. Just 12% Of Bitcoin Supply Is Now Held By Exchanges As pointed out by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, the percentage of BTC supply stored on exchanges has now dropped down to just 12%. The all exchanges reserve is an on-chain indictor that measures the total amount of Bitcoin currently held by wallets of all exchanges. The “percentage of BTC supply on exchanges” is a metric that tells us the ratio between the exchange reserve and the total supply of....