Willy Woo@woonomicETFs are buying...
Institutions are buying...
Who the hell is selling?
2024 brought a mass of commentators looking at ETFs flows, as if that's all that matters.
What matters is total demand and supply.
Here's a 101 thread on how the modern #Bitcoin market works.
https://x.com/woonomic/status/1801727009602646427Willy Woo@woonomicFirst, let me tell you who is selling.
The OGs. They are selling
They have more BTC than all the ETFs put together... 10x more.
And they sell into every bull market.
This pattern is as old as the genesis block.
Chart below: the age x amount of coins being sold.
https://x.com/woonomic/status/1801727011871957115Willy Woo@woonomicWe are now in the modern age of BTC.
Paper BTC has flooded the market since 2017.
Futures markets.
If you want to buy BTC, it used to be you had to buy real BTC.
You can now buy paper BTC. Thus a no-coiner can sell you that paper.
Together you have made a synthetic BTC.
https://x.com/woonomic/status/1801727014535053376Willy Woo@woonomicThat would-be demand for BTC gets diverted to paper BTC, fulfilled by counter traders who have no BTC to sell, they just have USD to back their bet.
https://x.com/woonomic/status/1801727016586383618Willy Woo@woonomicIn the old days, BTC would go on an exponential run because the only sellers was a trickle from the OGs and an even smaller amount from miners with their newly mined coins.
Today the magic of paper BTC is what you want to watch.
https://x.com/woonomic/status/1801727018364461294?s=46Willy Woo@woonomicThe 2022 bear market was dictated by a flood of paper BTC when spot holders didn't really sell.
In this current bull, I have marked where paper increased, these were times when price didn't rally.
We are in one of these right now.
The 2022 bear market was dictated by a flood of paper BTC when spot holders didn't really sell.
In this current bull, I have marked where paper increased, these were times when price didn't rally.
We are in one of these right now.
https://x.com/woonomic/status/1801727020562350494Willy Woo@woonomicSo... not a great idea to look solely at ETF buying.
On-chain data... derivatives data... technical price action...
All of these add to the demand and supply picture.
Putting it together is an art, not a quantifiable science.
Everyone is just making educated guesses.
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