Hopefully these holders will help to bring more stability and strength to bitcoin price futurely by not panic selling during bear markets. It's preferable bitcoin leaves the hands of speculators and panic sellers and is taken by long term holders. This situation is only worrying in case whales are the ones purchasing bitcoin now, because then it will mean they are accumulating more power and influence in crypto market yet.
That was predictable move though, and small investors shouldn't wait too long until restarting their bitcon investments once again, because when they least expect, bitcoin is going to be immediately pumped by big players who want to raise their dominance and manipulation range.
It is natural that coins move from those with weak hands to those which have stronger hands, however I have been wondering if this actually has any effect on the volatility of the market.
By this I mean that even if those long term holders are not selling their coins in panic and they are even buying some bitcoin when they can, those coins are not really at the exchanges and are not changing hands at all, so when it comes to the process of price discovery it is almost as if those coins did not exist, which would explain why the volatility is still so huge even if a great deal of all the bitcoin ever mined is on the hands of people with very strong hands.
Volatility is still huge, but if we compare to years ago, it has been decreasing and the market has become more stable, otherwise bitcoin would have already crashed to this currently price range since the end of 2021 and beginning of 2022, rather we saw a strong bitcoin fighting bravely to break resistance levels at 40,000$ and 50,000$.
Unfortunatelly, FED has answered with an attractive interest rates' boost and big players didn't think twice before retreating crypto market and going for dollars at this moment. So, all the progress long term
BTC holders have accomplished by now seems to be worthless on this momentaneous scenario, but without any doubts they helped a lot to keep btc in a robust position between December 2021 and May 2022.
With more investors of this kind, bitcoin will be much more prepared for the next bearish seasons.