That’s not hodling! Over 50% of Bitcoin addresses still in profit
More than half of Bitcoin (BTC) addresses are still in profit, raising questions about the severity of the current “bear market.”
Data from on-chain analytics firm Glassnode confirms that as of June 20, 56.2% of addresses were still worth more in U.S. dollar terms than when their coins entered them.
As BTC/USD fell to 19-month lows of $17,600 over the weekend, analysts braced for what they assume will turn out to be a retracement of up to 84.5% from all-time highs.
A sense of confusion reigns this year thanks to those highs not being “high enough” compared to historical bull market tops.
The subsequent drawdown has thus taken many by surprise, despite so far not matching previous bear markets.
The Glassnode figures support that idea. BTC price bottoms have tended to coincide with less than half of addresses remaining in profit, and as such, the current downtrend still has a way to go if it is to fit in with historical patterns.
In March 2020, for instance, profitable addresses dropped to 41%, and before that, the 2018 bear market also saw a drop below the 50% mark.
Panic, however, may already be setting in. As Cointelegraph reported, realized losses have been mounting among hodlers too uneasy about babysitting their funds any longer.
June 13 saw the largest on-chain realized losses in BItcoin’s history, these hitting $4.76 billion in a single 24-hour period.
On the topic of how much selling needs to take place before the market reverses, Dylan LeClair, senior analyst at UTXO Management, eyed a split between retail and derivatives traders.
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In times gone by, he argued this week, retail has sold first, and speculators come in to finish the process by
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