{"id":471784,"date":"2021-09-16T19:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/?p=471784"},"modified":"2024-06-11T13:58:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T13:58:41","slug":"on-chain-bitcoin-whales-recent-dips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/news\/on-chain-bitcoin-whales-recent-dips\/","title":{"rendered":"On-Chain Data Shows Bitcoin Whales Hold Fort Despite Recent Dips"},"content":{"rendered":"
On-chain data shows Bitcoin whales haven’t budged despite the recent dips, and are rather continuing to accumulate more.<\/p>\n
As pointed out by a CryptoQuant post<\/a>, the Bitcoin sum coin age (SCA) indicator has been going up, showing long-term holders are continuing to accumulate.<\/p>\n The SCA is a BTC metric that tells us about the distribution of long-term holders. It’s calculated by taking the product of the UTxO (Unspent Transaction Output) alive days and the UTxO value.<\/p>\n The “age” of a coin is measured in “coin days.” When a certain amount of BTC remains unspent for a day, it accumulates some fraction of a “coin day.”<\/p>\n One whole Bitcoin remaining unspent accumulates one coin day. Similarly, if half a coin remains unspent for a day, it picks up half (0.5) a coin day.<\/p>\n With the help of the indicator, it becomes possible to tell what the sentiment among long-term holders is. A dip in the metric’s value would suggest that whales<\/a> have started moving their coins, while an increase would imply they are continuing their accumulation.<\/p>\n Now, here is a chart that highlights the trend of the SCA vs the BTC price:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As you can see in the above chart, the SCA had a minor dip late July, but since then the indicator has been going up in a straight line.<\/p>\n Related Reading |\u00a0Bitcoin Transaction Fees Hit One-Year Lows, How Does This Affect The Price?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The dip occurred when the BTC price made a peak, implying some long-term holders decided to sell their coins and take the profits.<\/p>\n However, these holders were in the minority as most of the whales still held fort and continued to accumulate, creating the recent straight line trend.<\/p>\n Related Reading | New To Bitcoin? Learn To Trade Crypto With The NewsBTC Trading Course<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Also, as the graph shows, the recent crash in BTC’s price from above $50k to as low as $43k wasn’t enough to make these whales budge from their positions. The trend shows that these investors believe the price will appreciate further, and thus they continue their accumulation.<\/p>\n At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s price<\/a> floats around $47.5k, up 1% in the last 7 days. Over the past month, the crypto has accumulated 4% in gains.<\/p>\n The below chart shows the trend in the price of the coin over the last five days:<\/p>\n <\/p>\nThe Bitcoin SCA seems to be climbing straight up | Source: CryptoQuant<\/a><\/pre>\n
BTC Price<\/h2>\n
BTC's price seems to be moving down right now | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView<\/a><\/pre>\n