Bitcoin Exchange Supply Only Slips Further Despite Price Decline

Keshav Verma

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On-chain data shows that the Bitcoin exchange supply has only continued to slip further recently despite the price drop to the $29,200 that BTC has observed.

Bitcoin Exchange Supply Has Declined To Just 1.17 Million BTC Now

According to data from the on-chain analytics firm Santiment, the latest decline in the price doesn’t look to have triggered a severe reaction from the market yet.

The relevant indicator here is the “supply on exchanges,” which measures the total amount of Bitcoin supply that’s currently being stored in the wallets of all centralized exchanges.

When the value of this metric goes up, it means that the investors are making a net amount of deposits to these platforms right now. As one of the main reasons why the holders would transfer their coins to exchanges is for selling-related purposes, this kind of trend can have bearish consequences for the price.

On the other hand, the indicator’s value decreasing suggests the investors are taking coins off to self-custodial wallets, potentially to hold onto them for extended periods. Naturally, such accumulation can have a bullish effect on the asset in the long term.

Now, here is a chart that shows the trend in the Bitcoin supply on exchanges over the past few months:

The value of the metric seems to have been going down in recent weeks | Source: Santiment on Twitter

As displayed in the above graph, the Bitcoin supply on exchanges has observed a constant downtrend during the last few months or so. This means that the investors have been consistently taking their coins off these platforms during this period despite price declines.

Interestingly, this decline in the indicator continued even when the rally above $30,000 had occurred in the middle of June. Generally, during such sharp price surges, it’s not rare to see the metric rise, as some investors would be looking to harvest their profits.

But not only had deposits not occurred in this rally, but the supply on exchanges had also instead plunged especially hard back then, suggesting that there may have been some heavy buying taking place in the market, which would have acted as fuel for the surge.

In the past week, Bitcoin has registered a decline towards the low $29,000 level, but the indicator has still only continued to head down, implying that this price drop hasn’t been enough to trigger a mass panic-selling reaction from investors.

The current trend in this metric is naturally a positive sign for the cryptocurrency’s value, as it means that at least another selloff may not be probable to take place in the immediate future.

With the latest downward move in the supply on exchanges, only 1.17 million BTC is left in the wallets of these platforms now. This value is around 12% lower than back during the beginning of May, which is a significant drop.

BTC Price

At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading around $29,200, down 2% in the last week.

BTC has plunged during the last few days | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView

Featured image from Kanchanara on Unsplash.com, charts from TradingView.com, Santiment.net

Keshav Verma

Keshav is currently a senior writer at NewsBTC and has been attached to the website since June 14, 2021.

Keshav has been writing for many years, first as a hobbyist and later as a freelancer. He has experience working in a variety of niches, even fiction at one point, but the cryptocurrency industry has been the longest he has been attached to.

In terms of official educational qualifications, Keshav holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from one of the premier institutes of India, the University of Delhi (DU). He started the degree with an aim of eventually making a career in Physics, but the onset of COVID led to a shift in plans. The virus meant that the college classes had to be delivered in the online-mode and with it came free time for him to explore other passions.

Initially only seeking to make some beer money, Keshav unexpectedly landed clients offering real projects, after which there was no looking back. Writing was something he had always enjoyed and to be able to do it for a living was like a dream come true.

Keshav completed his Physics degree in 2022 and has been focusing on his writing career since, but that doesn’t mean his passion for Physics has ended. He eventually plans to re-enter university to obtain a masters degree in the same field, but perhaps only to satiate his own interest rather than for using it as a means to find employment..

Keshav has found blockchain and its concepts fascinating ever since he started going down the rabbit-hole back in 2020. On-chain analysis in particular has been something he likes to research more about, which is why his NewsBTC pieces tend to involve it in some form.

Being of the science background, Keshav likes if concepts are clear and consistent, so he generally explains the indicators he talks about in a bit of detail so that the readers can perhaps come out having understood and learnt something new.

As for hobbies, Keshav is super into football, anime, and videogames. He enjoys football not only as a watcher, but also as a player. For games, Keshav generally tends towards enjoying singleplayer adventures, with EA FC (formerly FIFA) being the only online game he is active in. Though, perhaps due to being ultra-focused on the game, he is today a semi-pro on the EA FC scene, regularly participating in tournaments and sometimes even taking back prize money.

Because of his enthusiasm for anime and games, he also self-learned Japanese along the way to consume some of the untranslated gems out there. The skill didn’t merely remain as just a hobby, either, as he put it to productive use during his exploration for small-time gigs at the start of COVID, fulfilling a couple of Japanese-to-English translation jobs.

Keshav is also big into fitness, with agility and acceleration-related workouts making a big part of his program due to the relevance they have in football. On top of that, he also has a more traditional strength based program for the gym, which he does to maintain an overall fitness level of his body.

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