The year 2022 has come to an end, it was an extremely bad time for short-term speculators and market tourists who were trying to make money on bitcoin in a short period of time. For many, this did not work out, because bitcoin almost always showed negative returns, and if we take quarterly reports, then for the first time in the history of bitcoin, all quarters turned out to be unprofitable.
But the gloomy market picture of the current year does not affect the accumulation of bitcoin by long-term holders. On the contrary, savings increased:
This means that not all bitcoin conditions can provide an appropriate return within a certain period of time. This year bitcoin has been in a state of negative returns, short term is not the best time to enter the market in any given year. Now we look forward to a positive quarter for bitcoin's journey, and hope that 2023 will be perfect and can show a green line in the gradual recovery.
Long term holders are always more influential in collecting bitcoins, no need to worry because the cycle will work according to the precision and that means we will experience a return phase and bitcoins always look special to hold.
Long-term savings continue from mid-2021.
It is also worth noting that there is less and less real bitcoin on the exchanges, the constant withdrawal of bitcoin from the exchanges has led to the fact that 88% of all bitcoins are not currently on the exchanges. Apparently, people have finally begun to understand that digital gold should only be stored on wallets for which you have a private key. And the exchanges themselves are not credible now, each exchange can now be the next FTX. Keeping your valuable bitcoins there, to put it mildly, is not reasonable.
There is always a debate when people keep bitcoins in a safe place (exchange), we have learned a lot from cases of FTX and other exchanges that have had problems.
And today we learn to understand bitcoin even further, because if it is true that 88% of bitcoins are not on exchanges, then there is a requirement to store bitcoins in a safer place (a wallet that has privacy), the remaining 12% of bitcoins today are traded freely on any exchange. If you look further, the more people who hold bitcoin outside the exchange, the more likely it is for bitcoin to reach the next ATH, because trading restrictions are starting to be limited by people who own bitcoin and in cases of bitcoin scarcity on traded exchanges will increasingly have an impact and this is where the economic formula will take effect for supply and demand.