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Bitcoin miners are holding as exchange supply nearly disappears

BTC miner trend and activity - July 23, 2024

Miner behavior functions as one of the most reliable early signals that is used for tracking new Bitcoin additions in the market. The binance pool upholds its leadership as one of the top mining pools in the network and offers a clean read on the respective behavior. It is so because the linked wallet flows tell about whether large-scale miners are cashing out or holding. At the time of writing, the condition is not true.

The Binance pool miner-supply ratio is currently showing a value of zero. This is not just the nearest hundredths rounding artifact of a dormant week, This represents the final stage of a continuing descent from when the miner supply ratio was above 1.40 in January.

The miners have been quiet depicted by zero supply ratio

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Source: Cryptoquant

According to Cryptoquant, the miner ratio line, shown in blue, declined sharply from 1.45 in January to 1.25 by June and then towards the low of zero by the end of july and seems consistent with slow liquidation by the bitcoin miners. The steady decline of 12 percent month over month for seven consecutive months indicates behavioral shifts and is not depicting some large miner cashing out.

Such a low figure translates to Binance Pool outflows relative to BTC’s circulating supply nearing negligible. Miners are not supporting operations through selling pressure like in the early half of this year, with coins ordinarily supplied to exchanges choosing to sit idle in cold storage.

Bitcoin miner netflows are on the negative side

The Miner Netflow Total stands at -8.37 BTC. The Miner Netflow Total decreased by 65.14 percent when compared to the previous read. At the time when the number of coins that are leaving the binance pool wallets is more than the inflow of those, the metric goes into the negative side. Generally, such a situation is responsible to the conclusion that miners are shifting their holdings to the cold storage wallets and currently do not have plans to add Bitcoins to the market as sellers.

With the fluctuations between -20 and +20 BTC net flow fluctuations that took place in every month spanning Jan. and Feb., these are totally normal ranges. All was acceptable until it went off a cliff in mid-March and shot all the way down to nearly -95 BTC but recovered just days later and has remained moderately negative since.

MVRV and price are not aligning at the moment

The MVRV Ratio, which is represented in purple in this chart, is holding the reading of 1.25. This figure is slightly down from the prior period. This ratio places market value over realized value, and a figure of greater than 1 suggests the average holder is sitting on an unrealized profit. The decline behind the figure is notable. As high as 10 from the start of the year and over in late January this year, MVRV has seen a steady fall down to 1.25 in the summer this year.

A reading this close to 1 means the average investor’s cost basis and the current price have nearly converged. Profit margins have compressed sharply since January, even though price itself has not fallen anywhere near that much. That gap points to new buyers entering through the year and pulling the average cost basis up, not existing holders panic selling.

The on-chain data metric miner data is clearly pointing out the lower selling pressure

The near-zero miner supply ratio, which is holding a negative net flow, and MVRV of 1.25 are collectively pointing to lower selling pressure from miners. These individuals are not depositing large amounts of Bitcoin to exchanges, although the low MVRV is more suggestive that the market is far from the high valuation levels. 

This condition often leads to heavy miner selling. This does not provide any confirmation for a price rally, but it is depicting that the miners are at present not adding significant pressure to the market.

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