2024-08-30 23:00:42 by NewsBTC

On-chain data shows the Bitcoin supply sitting on exchanges has reached a new low for the year as investors continue to withdraw their coins. Bitcoin Exchange Reserve Has Been Riding A Downtrend Recently As explained by an analyst in a CryptoQuant Quicktake post, the BTC Exchange Reserve has continued its drawdown recently. The “Exchange Reserve” here refers to an indicator that keeps track of the total amount of Bitcoin that’s currently sitting in the wallets of all centralized exchanges. When the value of this metric goes up, it means the investors are depositing a net number of tokens to these platforms right now. As one of the main reasons why investors would transfer their coins to exchanges is for selling-related purposes, this kind of trend can lead to a bearish outcome for the asset’s price. On the other hand, the indicator’s value heading in a downwards trajectory suggests the holders are withdrawing their BTC from the custody of the exchanges. Such a trend can be bullish for the cryptocurrency as it implies investors are in accumulation mode. Now, here is a chart that shows the trend in the Bitcoin Exchange Reserve since the start of the year 2024: Looks like the value of the metric has been heading down in recent months | Source: CryptoQuantAs displayed in the above graph, the Bitcoin Exchange Reserve has been declining throughout the year, implying that investors have constantly been shifting their coins off into self-custody. From the graph, it’s visible that a particularly sharp downwards move in the indicator has come as BTC has dropped under the $60,000 level, a potential sign that these coins taken off the exchanges were just freshly bought by their investors, who were looking to take advantage of the price dip. The drawdown that the Bitcoin Exchange Reserve has been witnessing during the last few months is naturally a positive development for the asset, as it means there is possibly lesser coins that can add to the selling pressure in the market. But the bullish effect on the price isn’t the only benefit for the cryptocurrency here, as the overall downtrend in the metric implies supply is becoming less concentrated on these platforms. Exchanges are centralized entities and when investors deposit their coins into wallets associated with them, they lose real ownership over the coins (at least until they withdraw), with them coming under the management of the platform itself. This means that any mishaps with the exchange, whether a hack or something else, also ends up affecting its users’ holdings. As the FTX collapse showed back in 2022, large exchanges going through destabilization can also destabilize the entire market. Thus, the less the amount of the supply that these platforms hold, the less should their influence be on the sector. In this view, Bitcoin investors continuing to take their coins off into self-custody is naturally a constructive development. BTC Price At the time of writing, Bitcoin is floating around $59,800, down 2% over the last seven days. The price of the coin has gone down recently | Source: BTCUSD on TradingViewFeatured image from Dall-E, CryptoQuant.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. 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. Disclaimer: The information found on NewsBTC is for educational purposes only. 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