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‘Why This Bitcoin Rally Has the Potential to Reach Previous All-Time High Pre-Halving’, Explains ...
On 10 February 2024, Jamie Coutts, a renowned freelance blockchain strategist and former crypto market analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, took to social media platform X to provide a bullish outlook on Bitcoin’s potential to reach new all-time highs (ATH) before the next halving event.

Heading into supply discovery.

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Coutts’ analysis, rich with technical and market insights, provides a compelling case for Bitcoin’s bullish future. Here’s a detailed look at his key points and the underlying concepts that support his predictions:

1. Market Reset Post-Q4 Leverage Cleansing

Coutts begins by highlighting the significant reduction in market leverage and speculative positioning that characterized the end of the previous year. This “cleansing” phase, marked by a 40% drop in options open interest and a moderation in futures funding rates, suggests a healthier market. By shedding excessive leverage, the Bitcoin market has potentially reduced its vulnerability to sudden price swings, laying a more stable foundation for growth.

2. ETF Demand vs. Supply Dynamics

A critical factor in Coutts’ analysis is the observation that Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) buying into Bitcoin are significantly outpacing the available supply, with a buying ratio of at least 2:1. This imbalance is particularly noteworthy as the halving event approaches, a phenomenon that historically reduces the rate at which new bitcoins are created, thereby constraining supply. Coutts points to this supply-demand dynamic as a bullish signal for Bitcoin’s price trajectory.

3. Technical Analysis: The Path Through Resistance Levels

Coutts also employs technical analysis to assess Bitcoin’s price movement, noting that only 10% of trading volume has occurred at prices above the current level. This observation suggests minimal overhead resistance if Bitcoin can breach the $48.2k mark. In the world of technical analysis, resistance levels are price points where selling pressure is anticipated. The lack of significant resistance above $48.2k implies that Bitcoin could experience a relatively unobstructed ascent to higher prices.

Conclusion: A Rally with Solid Foundations

Integrating Jamie Coutts’ insights with an understanding of key cryptocurrency concepts, it becomes clear why he views the current Bitcoin rally as having the potential to reach new heights. The combination of a market reset following the reduction of excessive leverage, favorable supply-demand dynamics ahead of the halving, and technical indicators pointing to minimal resistance levels, all contribute to a bullish outlook for Bitcoin.

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FIRST CLAIM THIS GIFT🎁RED PACKET CODE 👉 BPQMLAC7NV 👈CLAIM NOW DONT MISS 🚨Everybody these days, especially speculative investors, is talking about cryptocurrencies. Many well known news outlets now cover them, regularly discussing bitcoin and maintaining a ticker with the price on the screen. Even the small to the average investor is quite invested in the advent of cryptocurrencies and finds it a good investment opportunity.If you think those popular ones aren’t your first choice and you wish to go with small crypto coins that are under $1, check out the comprehensive list i have put together.CardanoCardano, also known as the “Ethereum killer,” is a proof-of-stake blockchain. It aims to give the chance for positive global change to be brought about to innovators, visionaries, and changemakers. Gerolamo Cardano, an Italian polymath, inspired the 2017 founding of Cardano.The coin’s creators claim that it has compelling use cases that will make it possible to develop decentralized apps and smart contracts in a modular fashion. Following Charles Hoskinson’s announcement that the Alonzo hard fork would take place in August 2021, the price of Cardano rallied by 116% the following month.Today, ADA is $0.519 USD with a market cap of $12,179,069,710 USD. It has a total supply of 45,000,000,000 ADA coins and a circulating supply of 34,730,983,822 ADA coins.StellarA peer-to-peer (P2P) decentralized network was introduced by Stellar org in 2014.The network’s goal is to link the financial systems of the world and guarantee a protocol for payment processors and financial institutions. It officially debuted in 2015. XLM, or Lumens, is the native cryptocurrency.When it was first introduced in July 2014, one of its objectives was to increase financial inclusion by providing banking services to unbanked people around the world. However, shortly after that, its focus shifted to facilitating blockchain-based connections between financial institutions.Lumens, the network’s native currency, act as a bridge to lower the cost of international asset trades. All of this aims to compete with current payment companies, which frequently charge exorbitant prices for comparable services. In the beginning, Stellar was based on the Ripple Labs protocol. The blockchain was produced through a hard fork, and the code was updated after that.AlograndAlgorand is a self-sustaining, decentralized, blockchain-based network that can support a variety of applications. These systems possess the vital characteristics of security, scalability, and effectiveness required for fruitful applications in the real world. It aims to speed up transactions and improve efficiency. It is constructed using a blockchain protocol that exclusively employs pure proof-of-stake (PoS) with no additional permissions.Algorand’s current price is $0.162 USD, and its market capitalization is $1,484,218,400 USD. It has a maximum supply of 10,000,000,000 ALGO coins and a circulating supply of 7,121,971,246 ALGO coins.VechainVeChain seeks to develop an ecosystem that addresses significant data challenges for numerous international industries using distributed governance and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. VeChain is creating the digital infrastructure that will support the fourth industrial revolution, which calls for real-time and trustless data sharing between numerous participants. VeChain is doing this by utilizing the power of trustless data.Based on its VeChainThor public blockchain, the platform manages and creates value using two tokens, VET and VTHO. VET creates VTHO and serves as a medium for the storage and transfer of value. In order to avoid using VET when writing data, GAS expenses are covered by VTHO. A flexible L1 smart contract platform for businesses is called VeChain (VET).At the time of writing, Vechain was at $0.0228 with a market capitalization of $1,652,447,139. The current circulation is 72,511,146,418 VET with a total supply of 85,985,041,177 VET.DecentralandDecentraland (MANA) describes itself as an Ethereum-powered virtual reality platform that enables users to create, experience, and monetize content and applications.LAND and MANA are both used by the cryptocurrency. It is necessary to burn MANA in order to obtain non-fungible ERC-721 LAND tokens. A variety of avatars, wearables, names, and other items are available for purchase on the Decentraland marketplace using MANA tokens. Decentraland was created with content producers, businesses, and consumers in mind who are searching for a fresh artistic outlet, business opportunity, or entertainment source in mind.Decentraland’s current price is $0.439 USD and its market capitalization is $1,108,656,259 USD. There are 1,855,084,192 MANA coins in circulation, and the maximum supply is not yet known.#Write2Earn
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Well now we are seeing bearish flag formation on daily candle as well, but i am still fine this,
Because for Bitcoin to retest $35K area, it should go above $50,000 too. This dump which was because of massive dumps by GBTC and panic sellers was not part of BTC plan. So here is what i am expecting, we will move back above 50,000-$55,000 area, then we will see quick 2-3 or may be 4week correction candles, leading us back to $48,000-$42,000 and then move to $40,000-$35,000.
There is something we call manipulation and we know how it is done in #crypto what everyone is seeing because they want you to see this and wait for it. People telling me liquidity sitting here and there bla bla bla, bro they want you to see that liquidity, when you build your own softwares they tell you what is it not what they showing, Liquidity is a part of manipulation but in bull-run market moves with different scenarios, i will explain in an article about factors to keep in mind the market movement.
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Investment of $100 in Shiba Inu Turns Into $37 Million in January 2024

In 2024, Shiba Inu (SHIB), the meme-inspired cryptocurrency that has garnered widespread attention in the crypto community, experienced unexpected developments. Despite not conforming to predictions of a bullish start, the early trading days of 2024 have proven highly lucrative for those who had faith in Shiba Inu’s potential from the outset. In an unforeseen twist, some initial SHIB investors have turned a modest $100 investment into staggering returns, with early adopters reaping profits surpassing a billion dollars.

Early Investments and Remarkable Returns

For those with the foresight to invest $100 in Shiba Inu every week since its all-time high in January 2021, their cumulative investment would total $15,700. Despite SHIB’s price consistently trending downward since its October 2021 peak, interrupted only by sporadic rallies, the $10,900 invested would now be valued at an astonishing $37,591,410.21 in January 2024. This exceptional surge represents an extraordinary increase of approximately 239,335.73%.

Can Shiba Inu Still Generate Millionaires?

SHIB’s price trajectory has seen a decline since its October 2021 highs. While other cryptocurrency projects experienced significant rallies in 2023, meme coins like Dogecoin (DOGE) and SHIB took a back seat. Nevertheless, the SHIB community remains resolute in its pursuit of the “one-cent dream.”

If Shiba Inu manages to achieve a price of $0.01, it would signify a growth of over 100,000%. Although this ambitious target presents challenges, it is not unprecedented for SHIB. From its launch in August 2020 to its all-time high in October 2021, SHIB’s price witnessed phenomenal growth, increasing by several million percent. The potential for 100,000% growth in the future continues to fuel the optimism of SHIB enthusiasts.
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Common P2P Scams in Developing Countries and How to Avoid Them
Main TakeawaysThis blog aims to educate users about prevalent cryptocurrency scams in the peer-to-peer (P2P) market, particularly those rampant in developing countries. Some of the most common cryptocurrency scams on Binance P2P include account-selling scams, SMS scams, and email scams.We also cover common signs to recognize these types of scams, as well as tips on how to avoid them.Understanding Cryptocurrency ScamsIn the rapidly evolving world of cryptocurrencies, staying ahead of potential threats is vital. While the industry offers many opportunities, it presents a new frontier for scammers to exploit unsuspecting individuals.Malicious actors employ a variety of ever-changing tactics to defraud victims of their hard-earned assets. Therefore, it’s crucial for users to stay updated on the latest scam trends to protect themselves and their investments.In this blog, we aim to shed light on three of the most prevalent scams currently affecting Binance users, particularly those in developing countries. By understanding how they operate and common signs to look out for, users can fortify their defenses against these devious cons.Account-Selling ScamsIn the context of Binance, account-selling scams occur when users are persuaded to give their account details to a scammer, usually with the promise of a hefty monetary reward. This exchange typically involves selling both the Binance account and the bank account linked to it.The scammer then pretends to be a seller, advertising fake products or services to people who aren’t on the Binance platform. Their plan is generally to get payments for fake products or services into the bank account linked to the sold Binance account. They use these stolen funds to buy cryptocurrencies on Binance P2P.Victims realize they’ve been scammed when the products or services they paid for don’t exist. They will report this fraud, causing the bank account linked to the sold Binance account to be frozen. This suspension can also affect other accounts linked to it, including the P2P counterparty accounts that the stolen funds flowed through. The person who originally owned the account can get into serious legal and financial trouble, even if they were unaware of what was happening. Thus, it’s crucial to never share or sell Binance or bank account details.Tips to protect yourselfEnhance your understanding of the rules surrounding your bank and Binance accounts, as they typically restrict selling or sharing accounts with others.Actively monitor your accounts for suspicious transactions, regularly change your passwords, and enable two-factor authentication for an extra layer of protection.In case of any indication that your account may be compromised, promptly report these details to your bank and Binance. Additionally, make sure to contact our customer support team to limit potential damage.SMS ScamsSMS scams occur when the scammer sends a fake text message to trick the victim into thinking they’ve received money. Scammers can make the SMS look like the same messages that banks or digital wallet apps would send to their users. Thus, these messages can trick users into thinking they’ve actually received the funds in their bank account, prompting them to release the orders.Tips to protect yourselfAlways double-check your bank or e-wallet for payment confirmation before making any transaction.Be cautious and verify payment information directly with your bank or e-wallet, not just an SMS notification.Email ScamsIn email scams, the scammer employs social engineering tactics to trick users into believing their real-world money, such as dollars or euros, is being held safely in a Binance escrow account. They then insist that the user should release their digital currencies. Users will typically receive a fake email that looks like it’s from Binance, falsely stating that their real-world money is awaiting them in Binance’s escrow service. This deceptive email might also try to scare users into believing their accounts will be blocked if they don’t let go of their digital currencies.The scammer essentially wants users to hand over their digital currencies before they realize the real-world money isn’t actually in their account.Tips to protect yourselfBinance P2P does not process fiat currency payments, nor does it store them in the escrow service. You can use the Binance Verify service to verify email addresses and other account credentials.Always make sure to check your bank account or wallet to confirm that you have received the full payment for all pending P2P transactions.Get Started With Binance P2PReady to start trading on Binance P2P? Register for a new Binance account or download the Binance app. Once you’ve completed the identity verification process, you can begin buying and selling cryptocurrencies on the Binance P2P marketplace and enjoy the platform’s benefits.Further ReadingIntro to Peer-to-Peer TradingHow to Report P2P Scams on Binance AppHow to Block a User on Binance P2PDisclaimer: Your use of Binance P2P services and all information and other content (including that of third parties) included in or accessible from Binance P2P services is at your sole risk. Our only responsibility is to handle crypto transactions. All payments are final upon completion unless otherwise required by law. The Binance P2P platform has neither the right nor obligation to resolve any disputes arising from a completed payment. Neither the Binance P2P platform nor its merchants shall be responsible for any loss after a completed payment.
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Binance Market Update (2024-01-03)
The global cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $1.76T, up by 6.42% over the last day, according to CoinMarketCap data.

Bitcoin (BTC) has been trading between $44,600 and $45,830 over the past 24 hours. As of 09:30 AM (UTC) today, BTC is trading at $45,356, down by -1.02%.

Most major cryptocurrencies by market cap are trading mixed. Market outperformers include PERP, TFUEL, and DOCK, up by 42%, 24%, and 24%, respectively.

Top stories of the day:

BlackRock's Potential $10M Bitcoin Investment Fuels Expectations for Spot Bitcoin ETF 

Bitcoin Millionaires Skyrocket by 300%, Wallets Exceeding 1 BTC Cross 1 Million Mark 

Russia to Adopt Digital Ruble for Tax Collection by 2025

Cryptocurrency Liquidations Reach $451 Million in One Hour 

TMX Group Completes Acquisition of Remaining 78% Stake in VettaFi Holdings 

BTC Digital To Purchase 2000 T21 Mining Machines In $5.32 Million Deal 

South Korea's Tax Agency Excludes Decentralized Crypto Wallets From Overseas Financial Account Reporting

Solana Memecoins Rally Attracts Investors and Generates Impressive Profits 

CleanSpark Reports 60% Increase in Bitcoin Mining in December 2023 

Matrixport Analyst Predicts SEC Could Reject All Bitcoin Spot ETF Proposals

Market movers:

ETH: $2377.58 (-1.85%)

BNB: $319.2 (-0.28%)

SOL: $109.15 (-6.30%)

XRP: $0.6338 (+0.09%)

ADA: $0.6158 (-2.67%)

AVAX: $40.97 (-5.07%)

DOGE: $0.0919 (-2.24%)

DOT: $8.524 (-2.48%)

TRX: $0.10962 (+0.16%)

MATIC: $0.9792 (-5.21%)

Top gainers on Binance:

PERP/USDT (+42%)

TFUEL/USDT (+24%)

DOCK/USDT (+24%)
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Decentralized Cross-Chain Protocol Orbit Bridge Hacked for $82M
According to CryptoPotato, the decentralized cross-chain protocol Orbit Bridge has been hacked, resulting in the loss of millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies. The attackers gained unauthorized access to the Orbit Bridge at 08:52 pm UTC on December 31. The protocol is currently working with international law enforcement agencies and conducting an analysis to determine the root cause of the incident.

The hack was first reported by pseudonymous user Kgjr, who noticed a series of large outflows from the network. New wallets were being created for several crypto assets, including Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), Tether (USDT), USD Coin (USDC), and Dai (DAI). The estimated damage is over $81.5 million, including $30 million USDT, $10 million USDC, $10 million DAI, 9,500 ETH worth $21.7 million, and 230 WBTC worth $9.8 million.

Blockchain security firm SlowMist suggested that the attack may have been caused by a vulnerability in the protocol or a compromised centralized server. The exploiter began the transactions with an initial funding of 10 ETH from crypto mixer Tornado Cash and transferred them through an intermediary address. After draining the Orbit Bridge protocol, the exploiter started dumping USDT and WBTC for ETH and USDC for DAI. They are currently left with 26,751 ETH worth $61.5 million and $15 million in DAI.

The Orbit Chain team has not yet provided details of the incident but has warned users against reimbursement scams. They have instructed users to interact only with the official protocol account. Meanwhile, users are requesting that pending transactions be canceled as the Orbit Bridge is currently shut down due to the incident. Some users are also asking when the protocol will connect validators and are concerned about the lack of communication from the Orbit team.
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Every single analysis went spot on.
Still we are early, #etf news is yet to come,
Do not panic.
Remember ‼️
In any case do not quit, you are here to change your life not to quit. ‼️
Stay tuned as i will make few important analysis and spot calls later today, #DYOR🟢
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Bitcoin's Shrimp Supply Sink: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Cryptocurrency Distribution Network
The supply distribution of Bitcoin continues to be a topic of great interest, for analysis of capital flows, and also for observing behaviors of investor cohorts. In this piece, we break down the BTC supply by wallet size, and explore how coins disperse over time.

The supply distribution of Bitcoin continues to be a topic of great interest, both for the analysis of the flow of capital, but also for observing cohort behaviors of the holder base. The distribution of coins is also the subject line for many Bitcoin critics, often mis-quoting large wallets as evidence for a heavy supply concentration held by a small handful of whales.
In our original article, we analyzed the distribution of Bitcoin to show that BTC ownership can be demonstrated to disperse over time, and is much less concentrated than often reported. To achieve this, we implemented our entity-adjustment clustering algorithms, which collate and group multiple addresses deemed to have a single entity owner. These tools improve both our accuracy and precision for measuring economic activity on-chain, and isolates large entities such as exchanges or ETF products which represent large collective user-bases. Both of these in combination enhances our signal-to-noise ratio for using on-chain data to make decisions.
The aim of this article is to provide a follow-up update on the growth and contraction of supply held by these defined entity cohorts, and to provide remarks on the distribution of the circulating supply as it stands today.
Note on analysis nuance: For simplicity, this report, and the figures shown reflect aggregate values, and limits discussion of some of the underlying nuances. More detailed points relating to this nuance are presented at the end of the piece for further reference.
TL;DR Key Takeaways
This refreshed analysis of supply changes between wallet size cohorts further supports the case that the BTC supply has indeed continued to distribute over time, with relentless distribution by miners being an indicative example.An increasingly large proportion of supply is held by smaller entities representative of retail holders, with Shrimps (< 1BTC) and Crabs (< 10 BTC) absorbing a remarkable 2.25x more coins than were mined in 2022.Institutional adoption post March 2020 is visible on-chain across several wallet cohorts, with balances showing signs of being increasingly market driven (i.e. swelling/contracting with price). Entities with a balance between 10 and 1k BTC are absorbing coin volumes equivalent to 100% of issued coins in 2022.Exchange reserves continue to deplete in aggregate, especially following the collapse of FTX. This is a combination of both renewed demand for self-custody, but also the expansion of institutional and collaborative custody solutions, and exchange traded products like GBTC.
Metrics covered in this report are available in our Entity Supply Distribution Dashboard.
Bitcoin Supply Distribution
To start, we will reintroduce our sea-creature cohorts, which divide network entities according to their Bitcoin holdings:
Shrimps (<1 BTC)Crab (1-10 BTC)Octopus (10-50 BTC)Fish (50-100 BTC)Dolphin (100-500 BTC)Shark (500-1,000 BTC)Whale (1,000-5,000 BTC)Humpback (>5,000 BTC)Exchanges and Miners

In our original article, we calculated both the percentage of the circulating supply held, as well as the raw volume of coins held per Entity cohort. The chart below provides a summary of the state of the relative ownership of the Bitcoin supply approximately 2-years later.
Assessing the change experienced by each cohort since Feb 2021, we can see that the smallest entities (Shrimps to Octopus) saw relative growth, whilst Whales, Miners and Exchanges experienced the largest contractions in supply share.

We can also explore changes in the relative distribution of supply by way of a new metric, the Yearly Absorption Rate. This tool provides a relative measure of balance change relative to the volume of newly minted coins over the last year. This provides insight into the level of expansion / contraction a cohort has experienced relative to new supply entering the market.
Absorption Rate of 120% means a cohort balance grew by 1.2x new issuance.Absorption Rate of 0% means a cohort balance was flat over the past year.Absorption Rate of -80% means a cohort balance declined by 0.8x new issuance.

⛏️ Miners
We will start with the Miner cohort, who are the production side of BTC, and the original custodian of every coin in circulation. A common mainstream critique of Bitcoin is that large and well capitalized industrial scale miners have an outsized ability to obtain and hoard coins, becoming a point of supply concentration (of course this ignores the tremendous input costs, and hyper-competitive market for BTC production).
Of all the critical claims levelled at Bitcoin, this one is likely the easiest to disprove. Considering the total balance held by Miners, we can see an aggregate decline from 100% ownership at genesis to just 9.5% at present date. This is actually an overestimation of the share of the circulating supply held by miners as it includes the Patoshi coins (which are increasingly likely to be lost as time passes). Removing these, we can see that non-Patoshi miners collectively own just 3.77% of the circulating supply today.

This net distributive force can also be seen in the Yearly Absorption Rates for miners, where in general, this cohort balance declines by 1.05 to 1.1 BTC for every 1.0 BTC that is mined. This represents a gradual expenditure of the accumulated balance across all miners throughout history.
Of note are periods in the 2020-22 cycle, where miners actually absorbed slightly more BTC than was mined. This coincides with the emergence of publicly traded mining companies, with greater access to capital markets to fund operations outside direct sales of produced coins.

Shrimps [< 1 BTC] to Crabs [1-10 BTC]
For assessing retail participation, the Shrimp to Crab cohort is our first port of call, encompassing all entities holding less than 10 units of BTC. Despite the profile of this cohort mainly consisting of retail participants. Tenured HODLers with multi-year accumulation strategies will also appear within this distribution, especially if they use privacy best practices (such as avoiding address re-use or consolidating UTXOs).
Analyzing the total supply held by Shrimp entities and the subsequent monthly change to the supply held, we note 2 major observations:
The monthly position change has remained positive near indefinitely, with only 37 trading days recording a lower aggregate Shrimp balance than the prior month.Both the LUNA and FTX implosions inspired the largest monthly increase in supply on record, at +56k and +92k BTC per month, respectively.
The current monthly position change remains historically elevated at +24k BTC per month, and only 224 trading days have seen a larger monthly change.

The Crab cohort has experienced month-on-month balance growth for 94% of all trading days, with only 305 days of decline. Following the LUNA and FTX implosions, the Crab class also experienced its largest monthly inflow of +78.4k and +130k BTC, respectively.

At present, Shrimp entities command a non-trivial 6.6% of the circulating supply (up from 4.86% 1yr ago), equivalent to 1.26M BTC, whilst Crabs hold 10.5% of supply (up from 8.7% 1yr ago), equivalent to 2.03M BTC.
The Yearly Absorption Rates for both cohorts have also been almost always positive since inception, with the only notable exception for Crabs being a lower to flat participation throughout H2-2022. These cohorts are currently experiencing an all-time-high in relative balance growth, recording an absorption rate equivalent to 105% of the yearly issuance for Shrimps, and an even larger 119% for Crabs.

Fish [10-100 BTC] to Sharks [100-1k BTC]
This cohort accounts for higher-net worth individuals, trading desks, and institutional sized entities holding between 10 and 1k BTC. This particular cohort has a notably large balance range, a result of several nuances related to how these entities came to possess, and also manage their holdings. This cohort accounts for:
Early Bitcoin adopters who acquired many coins at significantly cheaper prices.Wealthy individuals who allocated large positions to Bitcoin, including those who spread acquisitions over several tranches (and thus may hold unclustered UTXOs).Trading desks, high net worth individuals, and institutions that utilize a blend of self-custody, and institutional grade custody solutions.Given the Bitcoin ledger is transparent, many larger holders, and custodians will break down larger holdings into sets of smaller UTXOs to avoid ‘whale watching’ detectors (e.g. 1k BTC could be reflected in 100x smaller 10 BTC UTXOs).
An example of this last point can be seen in the chart below, where large volumes of UTXOs were broken down from the ‘Whale cohort’, and transferred into the ‘Shark cohort’ in early 2021.

This aggregate cohort saw general balance growth from genesis until late 2017, at which point growth stagnated following the Dec-2017 parabolic top. After this, wallet behaviors appear to take on more market responsive, shorter-term trading pattern. The cohort balance has remained flat over the long term, but tends to oscillate in response to market price signals.
Notably, during and after the industry wide deleveraging event that took place in mid-2022 onwards, this cohort has seen a relatively organic resurgence of supply growth. This perhaps suggest a change in investor behavior by entities within this wealth class, responding both to heavily depressed prices, but also to renewed awareness of counterparty risk with custodians.

Through the lens of Yearly Absorption Rates, the Fish to Shark Cohort display three principal behavior phases:
Genesis to Dec-2017: saw this cohort as a primary participant in net supply absorption, due in part to all block rewards being within this cohort range (50 to 25 BTC), but also due to relatively low prices, making such a position size relatively cheap to acquire in USD terms.Dec-2017 to Feb-2021: a change in the structure of the Yearly Issuance Absorption rate can be seen, transitioning from a regime of constant growth, to one of localized periods of expansion and contraction. Over this period, this cohort saw net balance change being in net equilibrium, and thus experiencing a relative loss of dominance of circulating supply held.Feb 2021 onwards: alongside a wave of institutional adoption, greater market liquidity, and general awareness, balance changes in cohort became increasingly volatile, and biased towards balance expansion. This cohort is currently experiencing a significant balance growth of +104% of issuance, with an approximate 75:25 split contribution from Fish and Sharks respectively.

🐳 Whales [1k+ BTC]
Finally, we examine the supply held by Entities with more than 1k+ BTC across their clustered addresses, whilst excluding coins held on exchanges. The Whale cohort saw the largest supply expansion take place up until the second halving event in mid 2016, at which point they held ~7.8M BTC (approx 50% of the supply). This was similarly possible due to the initial block reward issuing 25 to 50 BTC per block, alongside historically cheap prices, where 1k BTC was typically less than $1M in value.
Over time, the dominance of Whale entities in the total supply held has consistently declined, from 62.7% at the first halving in 2012, down to 34.4% today, a 45% dilution over seven years.

The 2017 bull market was a notable turning point for Whale behavior, as exchanges and mature markets developed, and Whale balances started to declined significantly. By the end of the 2018 bear market, Whale entities held between 6.4M and 6.6M BTC, a 16% decline since their peak holdings in H1-2016. Whale entities currently hold around 6.64M BTC,l equivalent to 34.4% of circulating supply.

Through the lens of Yearly Absorption Rate, there are two primary periods that stand out for this cohort:
The 2017 bull run which represented a net decline in Whale balances, likely in response to historically large inflows of new demand, high volatility as well as increasingly developed markets which were liquid enough to distribute into.The 2020-21 bull run which saw the first real wave of institutional and corporate capital enter the space, alongside an expansion of ETP products such as GBTC and other ETFs. This period reflected the first major expansion of balance held by Whale entities since 2016.

🏦 Exchanges
Within an on-chain analysis framework of supply and balances, Bitcoin exchanges can be reasonably considered to be the ‘middle-man’ through which a majority of coins that change hands pass. The expansion of one or another wallet cohort is usually balanced by either an opposing change in another wallet cohort, or via changes across the aggregate exchange reserves.
When analyzing the history of Exchange Balances, the March 2020 sell-off event remains a pivotal inflection point, as investor behavior and market structure changed dramatically.
Since the collapse of Mt Gox in 2013, the dominant trend was for coins to continually flow towards exchanges, a trend that persisted until March 2020.Post March 2020, a structural change occurred, and coins started to flow out of exchanges at increasing rates. These outflows are directed towards both self-custody investor wallets, but also into institutional and collaborative custody services, and exchange traded products such as GBTC (which trade outside on-chain spot markets).This effect was supercharged after the collapse of FTX, as the market was once again, brutally reminded of the nature of counterparty risk. The Nov-Dec 2022 period remains the largest monthly outflow of -200k BTC/month.

From a Yearly Absorption Rate perspective, these phase shifts are apparent. The 2017 bull run can be seen to be the historical peak of relative exchange balance growth, growing by an equivalent of 177% of issued coins over that year. This growth trend reversed after the Feb 2018 mania peaked, and turned negative shortly after the 2020 COVID sell-off. It can be seen that Exchange balances are through many periods of history tend to trend in opposite directions to key investor cohorts detailed above.

Overall Distribution by Number of Entities
In the sections above, we have explored the relative balance and balance change of various wallet cohorts. In this final section, we will explore the relative number of entities, and compare that to the aggregate balance held. The chart below shows the estimated number of entities (x-axis in log scale), whilst the right shows the relative proportion of supply held (x-axis in linear scale).

From this, we can see that entity counts follow a Pareto distribution, with over 32M Shrimp accounting for 6.5% of the circulating supply. This compares to around 1640 Whales holding approximately 28.3% of the supply. For each cohort, we can gauge an average balance per entity for a sense of scale (valued at a price of $22.4k):
Shrimp = ~0.039 BTC ($873.6) with population of 32MCrab = ~2.73 BTC ($61.15k) with population of 740kOctopus = ~21.75 BTC ($487.2k) with population of 80kFish = ~74.17 BTC ($1.66M) with population of 12kDolphin = ~214 BTC ($4.79M) with population of 10kShark = ~763.63 BTC ($17.1M) with population of 2.2kWhale = ~1855.17 BTC ($41.6M) with population of 1.45kHumpback = ~14,473 BTC ($324M) with population of 190
Viewed as a distribution over time, we can see that the smallest cohorts by balance (Shrimp and Crabs)  have consistently grown in both population size (bottom chart), but also in terms of relative supply share held (top chart). Overall, this speaks to a structural dispersion of supply over any medium to long term timeframe as Bitcoin adoption and awareness grows.

Summary and Conclusions
In this review of the supply distribution for Bitcoin, we find that the observations made within the original piece are reinforced, and the BTC supply is continuing to distribute to more wallets, of a smaller average size over time. Of most interest is the extraordinary growth in dominance of the smallest cohorts by balance size (Shrimp and Crabs), especially through 2022. This reflects a degree of retail participation that is effectively at all-time-highs, and encouraging to see.
In recent history, there are two events which stand out as behavioral turning points across several cohorts:
March 2020 sell-off, after which the entrance of institutional size capital becomes apparent, and reverses a trend of stagnant or even declining dominance by larger entities.Mid-2022 Deleveraging and FTX, which created the largest impulse of self-custody, and exchange withdrawals in history. This effect is visible across several wallet cohorts, cementing it as a widespread inflection point.
Overall, the Bitcoin supply can be shown to continually to disperse, driven both from the production side (miners), but also across market cycles (investors/holders). This is a healthy observation, and is no doubt an unbelievable reality to chew on for the cohort of professional Bitcoin critics.
Metrics covered in this report are available in our Entity Supply Distribution Dashboard.
Discussion of Nuances
On Bitcoin Entities: Bitcoin addresses are the basic public addresses recorded on the blockchain that send and receive BTC. Through the application of a variety of heuristics, and advanced clustering algorithms, one can identify clusters of addresses which we have a high confidence are controlled by the same participant, i.e. network entity. This creates an closer approximation for the number of network participants, allowing subsequent analyses to more closely model the underlying network realities. Please refer to our previous work for more information.
On Entity Balance change metrics: As discussed in this article, the figures presented are a best estimate of the true distribution of Bitcoin ownership. At an aggregate level, the trends and magnitude is instructive. For a more granular analysis, additional nuances, and even more refined data is required to properly account for a more individual market structure. Here are several points to take into consideration on this front:
Supply on exchanges: Quantifying exchange users will have an impact on the above distributions. The estimated number of users on exchanges is in the ballpark of 130 million. It is reasonable to assume that a majority of those by count are retail sized investors, located in the smaller entity buckets. It would require more granular analysis of the distribution of holders on exchanges to distribute the 2.3M BTC held at these custodians. For simplicity, this analysis isolates these coins, but it could be argued that the on-exchange distribution could very well be similar to that of on-chain wallets (i.e. a subset of the total).Custodians: Grayscale and other institutional custody services are not explicitly accounted for in this aggregate analysis. However, the BTC held is disproportinately located within the whale+ cohorts. For GBTC in particular (holding ~650k BTC at the time of writing), these coins are held within Coinbase Custody (no longer within our Coinbase exchange entity cluster), and are owned by multiple participants on secondary markets. One could thus argue that the GBTC ‘Whale Balance’ is in fact representative of a supply distributed amongst its own holder base.Wrapped BTC: Similarly, there are around 180,000 BTC wrapped in the WBTC ERC20 token, however this aggregate analysis will consider them as a single Whale sized entity. Again, given that these wrapped coins belong to many investors, the ownership of BTC would in reality disperse further across entities.Lost coins: Many coins are from the early days are most likely, and are generally considered to be lost. In addition, given the low price of Bitcoin early on, large amounts of BTC were often held within single addresses/wallets, especially prior to BIP32 introducing HD wallets to generate a new address each transaction. Common heuristics to determine which coins are lost may be those that have never transacted since markets started trading (~1.457M BTC), or long dormant 7yr+ old coins (4.45M BTC). Factoring in lost coins which are disproportionately skewed towards higher balance cohort groups would act to indicate an even more widespread supply distribution.The estimated number of small network entities: The total number of network entities is most likely much lower than indicated. Our methodology is very conservative, meaning that we optimize to avoid false-positives. However, many addresses owned by the same real-world entity are unlikely to be clustered into a single entity. Consider that a monthly DCA strategy HODLer who never combines UTXOs, and never re-uses addresses will see each monthly acquisition appear as a discrete entity. This effect is most pronounced for small entities due to their relative population size, however the effects will also be prevalent amongst larger entities. This means that the actual number of network entities is likely to be lower than the ranges shown.

Disclaimer: This report does not provide any investment advice. All data is provided for information and educational purposes only. No investment decision shall be based on the information provided here and you are solely responsible for your own investment decisions. Source Glassnode

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2. I tend to follow cycles that are known to be reversal points.

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c.) Renko bricks can also help identify uptrends when you see 2 positive bricks based on the ATR ( Average True Range ).

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