Bitcoin fell back below the $100,000 level over the past day as on-chain data showed that the OG whales had woken up.
Bitcoin OGs have transferred huge amounts recently
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This metric essentially tracks the total number of coins that investors who have held for 10 years or more have transferred on the BTC blockchain over the past month. Below is the chart of the indicator shared by the analyst.
The value of the metric appears to have been pretty high in recent days | Source: @jjcmoreno on X
As can be seen in the chart, investors over 10 years old have transferred a large number of coins as the rise in the price of the cryptocurrency occurred over the past month.
Statistically, the longer investors hold onto their coins, the less likely they are to ever sell said coins. The probability of not selling becomes high after the 155-day mark, so investors who manage to hold longer than this period are called “long-term holders” (LTHs).
Of course, even among LTHs, any investor’s resolve grows stronger the longer their coins age. In the context of the current topic, relevant LTHs are those with tokens older than ten years, which are old entities even by the group’s standards.
While these investors are certainly older, it is difficult to say whether they are truly assertive. This may seem contradictory given the above fact, but it is also a statistical fact that coins older than 7 years are more likely to get there by getting lost than by HODLing.
A code is said to be “lost” when their wallet is inaccessible either by forgetting it or by misplacing their keys. Many of these coins will never return to circulating supply, but some may eventually be rediscovered.
A large portion of investors who spent old coins in the recent rally may have simply found an old stash of their own or someone else’s coins, so they may have never willingly engaged in any holding at all.
However, the remaining sellers may actually be the more well-designed diamond hands, which they have been holding since 2014 or earlier. It seems that these HODLers have become satisfied enough with the $100,000 goal that they are willing to finally part with their coins.
In total, cumulative 30-day spending for coins older than 10 years had reached the roughly $1 billion mark before the asset’s recent decline. Given the timing, it is likely that this selling played some role in this collapse.
Bitcoin price
At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at around $97,700, down more than 5% over the past 24 hours.
Looks like the price of the coin has retraced from its latest high | Source: BTCUSDT on TradingView
Featured image by Dall-E, CryptoQuant.com, chart from TradingView.com
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