Data Shows Bitcoin Short-Term Holders Have Started To Sell At A Loss
07 December 2021 - 6:00AM
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On-chain data shows Bitcoin short-term holders are increasingly
selling at a loss following the latest crash in the crypto’s price.
Bitcoin Short-Term Holder SOPR Dips Further Below One As pointed
out by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, on-chain data shows that
the STH SOPR has decreased to July levels, suggesting that
short-term holders are increasingly realizing their losses. The
Spent Output Profit Ratio, or “SOPR” in short, is a Bitcoin
indicator that tells us whether investors are selling at a loss or
a profit during a given period. The metric’s value is calculated by
taking the ratio between the value of coins at spent time, and that
at the time of creation. If the SOPR drops below one, then it means
investors are, on an average, selling at a loss. While if it floats
above the threshold, then the overall market is making a profit. It
being exactly equal to one implies holders are breaking even. A
slight modification of this indicator is the STH SOPR, which
measures the profit ratio of only those coins that were held for
less than 155 days before being sold. These coins are usually
assumed to be the short-term holder (STH) supply. So, the STH SOPR
highlights whether these holders were selling in profit or not at a
specific time. Related Reading | Understanding Bitcoin UTXO:
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here is a chart that shows the trend in this Bitcoin indicator over
the past year: Looks like the the value of the indicator has
sharply dropped recently | Source: CryptoQuant As you can see in
the above graph, the Bitcoin STH SOPR declined to 0.95 yesterday.
The last time similarly low values were observed was back in July.
These current low values suggest that short-term holders are
increasingly dumping their coins at a loss right now. A similar
trend was seen following the May BTC crash. Related Reading
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Banking System The analyst in the post thinks that either the coin
may now follow a similar sideways movement as to the one seen then,
or it may set up a final leg up for Bitcoin as was the case in
July. BTC Price At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s price floats
around $48.4k, down 15% in the last seven days. Over the past
month, the crypto has lost 20% in value. The below chart shows the
trend in the price of BTC over the last five days. BTC's price has
mostly moved sideways since the crash | Source: BTCUSD on
TradingView A few days back, Bitcoin’s price crashed down to as low
as $42k before jumping back up to current levels. Since then, the
crypto has mostly consolidated sideways. Featured image from
Unsplash.com, charts from TradingView.com, CryptoQuant.com
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