Bitcoin Crashes: Here’s Where The Nearest On-Chain Support Is
20 December 2024 - 10:30AM
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Bitcoin has observed a plunge during the past day. Here’s the
nearest on-chain level that the asset would end up retesting if the
drawdown elongates. 1 Week To 1 Month Bitcoin Holders Have Their
Realized Price At $97,900 As pointed out by CryptoQuant author Axel
Adler Jr in a new post on X, the Realized Price of the 1-week
to 1-month-old BTC investors is the closest support for the asset
right now. Related Reading: Secret Bitcoin Driver: Exchanges
Receiving $40 Million USDT Fuel Per Day The “Realized Price” here
refers to an on-chain indicator that, in short, keeps track of the
cost basis or acquisition price of the average holder on the
Bitcoin network. When the metric’s value is lower than the spot
price of the cryptocurrency, it means the investors as a whole can
be considered to be holding a net amount of profit. On the other
hand, it being under the BTC value suggests the dominance of loss
in the market. In the context of the current topic, the Realized
Price of only a particular segment of the sector is of interest:
the 1-week to 1-month-old holders. This cohort includes the
addresses that have been holding their coins for at least one week
and, at most, one month. Now, here is the chart shared by the
analyst that shows how the Realized Price of this Bitcoin group has
changed over the past year: As displayed in the above graph, the
Realized Price of the 1-week to 1-month-old Bitcoin investors has
been climbing up alongside the price rally. This is naturally due
to the fact that the cohort’s cost basis has been getting repriced
to higher levels as new investors have been purchasing at the rally
highs. Currently, the indicator’s value sits at $97,900, so these
investors would be in profit at the current price. Earlier in the
past day, however, the asset came dangerously close to retesting
the level as its price saw a brief dip below $99,000. The 1 week to
1 month old investors make up a section of a larger cohort known as
the short-term holders (STHs). The STHs are broadly defined as the
holders who bought their coins within the past 155 days.
Statistically, the longer an investor holds onto their coins, the
less likely they become to sell. So, the STHs, and especially the
1-week to 1-month-old segment, would contain the holders with the
least amount of resolve in the sector, owing to their low holding
time. Because of how fickle they are, the STHs generally show some
kind of reaction whenever their average cost basis gets retested by
the Bitcoin price. This reaction may come in the form of buying
when the retest occurs from above, as these holders could believe
the decline to be just a ‘dip.’ As such, the Realized Price of the
1-week to 1-month-old STHs, which is below the current price, could
be looked at as a support level for the cryptocurrency. The level
has also already helped the asset out once this month. Related
Reading: Ethereum On-Chain Demand Should Sustain ETH Above $4,000,
IntoTheBlock Says So far, Bitcoin has been making a recovery from
the plummet, but should the bearish momentum return, the retest of
the line may be to watch for, considering the past pattern. BTC
Price At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at around
$102,200, down almost 3% in the last 24 hours. Featured image from
Dall-E, CryptoQuant.com, chart from TradingView.com
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