2025-01-25 01:30:00 by NewsBTC

On-chain data shows that Bitcoin shark-sized wallets have climbed to a new all-time high recently, a sign that could be bullish for BTC. Key Bitcoin Investors Have Been In Accumulation Mode Recently According to data from the on-chain analytics firm Santiment, the total number of sharks on the Bitcoin network has registered an increase recently. The indicator of relevance here is the “Supply Distribution,” which tells us about the amount of BTC wallets that belong to a particular group. Addresses or investors are categorized into these cohorts based on the number of coins that they are carrying in their balance. For example, wallets holding 5 tokens are put into the 1 to 10 coins group. In the context of the current topic, the wallet range of interest is 100 to 1,000 BTC. At the current exchange rate, the lower end of the range converts to $10.5 million and the upper one to $105 million. Thus, the only addresses that would qualify for the cohort would be the ones belonging to the large traders. This group is popularly known as the sharks. The sharks are certainly not the largest entities on the network—that title belongs to the whales—but they are still influential due to their notable holdings. Below is the chart for the Bitcoin Supply Distribution shared by the analytics firm, which shows the data for these key investors over the last few months. The value of the metric seems to have been climbing in recent days | Source: Santiment on XAs displayed in the graph, the Bitcoin Supply Distribution for the 100 to 1,000 coins group saw a sharp upwards trajectory during the last few weeks of 2024, implying a large amount of new shark-sized investors popped up on the network. The growth in the indicator has significantly slowed down this year, but it has nonetheless continued as the metric’s value has just set a new record of 15,777 addresses. Bitcoin has seen a pause in its bull run recently, so to see the sharks still be interested in buying the asset could naturally be a positive sign for things to come in the near future. The sharks haven’t been the only investors accumulating recently, as the analytics firm Glassnode has pointed out that the shrimps and crabs have also been seeing positive flows. The data for the monthly balance change in shrimp and crab wallets | Source: Glassnode on XThe shrimps and crabs refer to the Bitcoin investors owning up to 1 and 10 BTC, respectively. As is apparent from the chart, these small entities have combined bought 25,600 BTC during the past month, which is equivalent to 1.9x the Monthly Issuance. The Monthly Issuance is the amount that miners have produced/mined over the last 30 days. Thus, it would appear that the retail investors have been absorbing almost twice as much supply as the miners have been minting. BTC Price Bitcoin has been moving sideways over the last few days as its price is still floating around the $105,100 level. The price of the coin seems to have been following a flat trajectory recently | Source: BTCUSDT on TradingViewFeatured image from Dall-E, Santiment.net, Glassnode.com, chart from TradingView.com Keshav Verma Keshav is currently a senior writer at NewsBTC and has been attached to the website since June 14, 2021. Keshav has been writing for many years, first as a hobbyist and later as a freelancer. He has experience working in a variety of niches, even fiction at one point, but the cryptocurrency industry has been the longest he has been attached to. In terms of official educational qualifications, Keshav holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from one of the premier institutes of India, the University of Delhi (DU). He started the degree with an aim of eventually making a career in Physics, but the onset of COVID led to a shift in plans. The virus meant that the college classes had to be delivered in the online-mode and with it came free time for him to explore other passions. Initially only seeking to make some beer money, Keshav unexpectedly landed clients offering real projects, after which there was no looking back. Writing was something he had always enjoyed and to be able to do it for a living was like a dream come true. Keshav completed his Physics degree in 2022 and has been focusing on his writing career since, but that doesn’t mean his passion for Physics has ended. He eventually plans to re-enter university to obtain a masters degree in the same field, but perhaps only to satiate his own interest rather than for using it as a means to find employment.. Keshav has found blockchain and its concepts fascinating ever since he started going down the rabbit-hole back in 2020. On-chain analysis in particular has been something he likes to research more about, which is why his NewsBTC pieces tend to involve it in some form. Being of the science background, Keshav likes if concepts are clear and consistent, so he generally explains the indicators he talks about in a bit of detail so that the readers can perhaps come out having understood and learnt something new. As for hobbies, Keshav is super into football, anime, and videogames. He enjoys football not only as a watcher, but also as a player. For games, Keshav generally tends towards enjoying singleplayer adventures, with EA FC (formerly FIFA) being the only online game he is active in. Though, perhaps due to being ultra-focused on the game, he is today a semi-pro on the EA FC scene, regularly participating in tournaments and sometimes even taking back prize money. Because of his enthusiasm for anime and games, he also self-learned Japanese along the way to consume some of the untranslated gems out there. 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