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Bitcoin Stays Down, But Whale Wallets Quietly Climb to 4-Month High

Reason to trust Strict editorial policy that focuses on accuracy, relevance, and impartiality Created by industry experts and meticulously reviewed The highest standards in reporting and publishing How Our News is Made Strict editorial policy that focuses on accuracy, relevance, and impartiality Ad discliamer Morbi pretium leo et nisl aliquam mollis. Quisque arcu lorem, ultricies quis pellentesque nec, ullamcorper eu odio. On-chain data shows the Bitcoin whales have seen their population grow recently, despite the bearish action that the price has been facing. Bitcoin Whales Have Seen Notable Growth In Past Five Weeks According to data from the on-chain analytics firm Santiment, whale-sized Bitcoin wallets have recently climbed to their highest point since December of last year. The indicator of relevance here is the “Supply Distribution,” which tells us, among other things, the number of wallets that belong to a particular coin range. The metric’s value for the 1 to 10 coins range, for example, represents the number of investors or addresses who own between 1 and 10 tokens. In the context of the current topic, the range of interest is 1,000 to 10,000 coins. The investors of this size ($84.2 million to $842 million in USD terms) are popularly known as the whales. Due to the massive scale of their holdings, these investors can carry some degree of influence in the market. Naturally, each of them on their own may not be relevant for the cryptocurrency, but the group as a whole can be. The Supply Distribution helps track exactly this collective behavior. Now, here is the chart shared by the analytics firm that shows the trend in the Bitcoin Supply Distribution for the 1,000 to 10,000 coins group over the last few months: The value of the metric appears to have been going up in recent weeks | Source: Santiment on XAs displayed in the above graph, the Bitcoin Supply Distribution for the whales observed a plummet alongside the December price peak, implying a large amount of these humongous investors exited the market. The same pattern was also witnessed during the January top, albeit at a much smaller scale. This would indicate that the selling from the whales once again obstructed the BTC rally. During most of February, the metric consolidated at its lows, but starting with the last week of the month, its value began to rise. The surge continued throughout March and today, there are 1,993 whale-sized addresses on the network, the highest level since the December top. From the chart, it’s visible that this growth in whale entities has come while Bitcoin has been struggling around its lows, a potential sign that big-money investors have been looking at the recent price levels as profitable entry points into the cryptocurrency. “There are many factors contributing to the polarizing crypto markets right now, but it can be taken as a slight sign of confidence that one of the most important key stakeholder tiers in cryptocurrency has grown by +2.6% in the past five weeks alone,” notes Santiment. It now remains to be seen whether this buying from the Bitcoin whales will pay off or not. BTC Price Bitcoin has continued its sideways movement recently as its price is still stuck around the $84,000 level. The trend in the BTC price over the last month | Source: BTCUSDT on TradingViewFeature image from Dall-E, Santiment.net, chart from TradingView.com 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. The skill didn’t merely remain as just a hobby, either, as he put it to productive use during his exploration for small-time gigs at the start of COVID, fulfilling a couple of Japanese-to-English translation jobs. Keshav is also big into fitness, with agility and acceleration-related workouts making a big part of his program due to the relevance they have in football. On top of that, he also has a more traditional strength based program for the gym, which he does to maintain an overall fitness level of his body. 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