I would like to add a few detail to my
miner capitulation hypothesis on recent market crash
A very interesting graph is the one found on
https://hodl.camp/:
(the version on the site is totally interactive)
It represents the time after which the HODL stays in profit (green) or loss (red).
As you can see in the previous cycle, even after buying on the highs, after 3 and a half years HODER buying at the ATH turned into profit.
Having been the ATH in December 2017, it would mean that to match this record, the brakeven on an ATH buy would be into profit in June 2021.
Three and a half years is a number that reminds us of the halving cycle, every 4 years.
In my humble opinion, we will not have to wait fo too long, given that, thanks to @PlanB, many more people are aware of the halving mechanics, and therefore the cycle will be "anticipated" as more people will try to profit from increased SF after thye halving.
Clearly, this scenario was particularly challenged by the recent price dynamics.
@PlanB a couple of days ago noticed the large increase in bitcoins traded on the exchanges.
On chain BTCmoved per block (last 10 days /1440 blocks).
Red boxes today:
- block 621259: 600k + btc moved
- block 621358: 200k + btc moved
- since price drop (11:00 GMT + 1) 10k-100k btc per block (that is 10x normal volume)
Who has more info & insight on this?
https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1238203443015270402?s=20A graphic that comes to your rescue is that of the hodlwaves:
Each band represents an age of UTXOSs. From the blue ones, which are almost stable (they are the "Satoshi bitcoins" never moved since the beginning), and gradually they go towards the red, that is the ones moved more recently.
So let's say that when the graph becomes more "blue" the hodlers hold on and the age of the coins "increases", while when the graph becomes more "red" it means that the trading activity is increasing.
If we zoom in to last week, we see that in fact the red UTXO increase:
And we see that in fact the situation returns to be "stable" in the 6/12M range, so those who sold had bought for less than 6 months.
So it was #weakhands liquidation, because by crossing with the previous graph we see that they were at a loss.
In my opinion they were longs strategically placed who had focused on halving, going into stop loss with the collapse of the market (triggered by other reasons in my opinion).
EDIT: As
pointed out by Yefi the graphs are not updated yet to fully show the crash. We will have a better picture onmce all the data has been processed.
Well, the plan didn't came togheter:
This is the impressive amounts of liquidations.
One reassuring fact is the drop in OI in futures: this means the drop caused liquidation in long positions, rather that opening of short positions:
Summarising, my
miner capitulation hypothesis still hold tue, in my opinion.