Long-term Bitcoin bulls 'HODLing' strong despite five-month price high

Glassnode reports that long-term Bitcoin holders are refusing to sell despite the BTC markets rallying to a five-month price high.

Long-term Bitcoin bulls 'HODLing' strong despite five-month price high

According to the report called “Week on Chain,” On-chain analytics provider, Glassnode noted that long-term holders are currently sitting on nearly 13.3 million BTC or 70% of Bitcoin’s supply. These holders are BTC wallets that have not seen outflows for more than 155 days.

The report further notes that long-term holders have increased their collective stash by more than 2.37 million BTC (roughly $134 billion at current prices) over the past seven months. With only 186,000 BTC being newly minted by miners during the same period, Glassnode concludes that long-term whales are accumulating 12.7 times more BTC than is created as a new supply.

Despite long-term holders refusing to sell, Glassnode noted an uptick in on-chain activity as Bitcoin’s price pushed up to a local high of $57,860 on Oct. 12.

October has seen the number of active addresses on-chain increase 19% to 291,000 — levels not seen since the lead up to December 2020’s meteoric bull-trend. Glassnode suggested the spike in activity could foreshadow further bullish momentum.

The report also noted an increase in median transaction size to roughly 1.3 BTC per transfer, suggesting an increase in institutional-sized capital flows on-chain. During August, the median transaction size fell as low as 0.6 BTC per transfer.

On Oct. 12, Glassnode reported that Bitcoin balances on centralized exchanges had fallen to a three-year low of 2.4 million BTC, further evidencing many investors are choosing to hold for higher prices. Industry observers have suggested that whales could be front-running the BTCmarkets in anticipation of a Bitcoin ETF approval this month.

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