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Breaking News: Bitcoin Price Tumbles Toward $98,000: What’s Driving The Drop And What Lies Ahead

Bitcoin Investors Watch Out: Miners Showing Unusual Exchange Inflow Activity

Keshav Verma
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Last Updated: October 21, 2024 4:30 pm
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On-chain data shows the Bitcoin miners have been making an unusually high number of transactions to centralized exchanges recently.

Bitcoin Miner To Exchange Transactions Metric Has Just Seen A Spike

As pointed out by CryptoQuant author IT Tech in a new post on X, the Miner to Exchange Transactions indicator has been high recently. The “Miner to Exchange Transactions” keeps track of the total number of transfers that the miner-associated Bitcoin wallets are making to addresses connected with exchanges.

When the value of this metric is high, it means the miners are making a large amount of moves to these platforms. As one of the main reasons why these chain validators would deposit to exchanges is for selling-related purposes, this kind of trend can have a bearish effect on the BTC price.

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On the other hand, the indicator being low implies miners aren’t making inflows to exchanges, potentially because they plan to hold onto their coins for a while. Naturally, this HODLing from this cohort can be a positive sign for the asset.

Now, here is a chart that shows the trend in the Bitcoin Miner to Exchange Transactions over the last few days:

Bitcoin Miner to Exchange Transactions
The value of the metric appears to have been quite high in recent days | Source: @IT_Tech_PL on X

As displayed in the above graph, the Bitcoin Miner to Exchange Transactions has registered a large spike during the past day, suggesting that the miners have just made a large number of moves to these platforms.

It’s possible that this is an indication of a selloff from these chain validators, but whether this potential selling would actually affect the cryptocurrency depends on the exact scale of coins that’s involved in the transactions.

The analyst has also shared the data of an indicator that provides information related to it, called the Miner to Exchange Flow:

Bitcoin Exchange To Miner Flow
The data for the miner exchange flow over the last couple of days | Source: @IT_Tech_PL

From the chart, it’s visible that this metric’s value has also shot up alongside the spike in the Miner to Exchange Transactions. At its height, the metric touched 225 BTC, which is equivalent to a little under $15.4 million at the current price.

This isn’t a small sum in itself, but when considering the scale of the total Bitcoin market cap, these exchange inflows hardly weigh to much. Thus, even if the miners plan to sell these coins, the market should be able to absorb the pressure just fine.

Miners are entities that have constant running costs in the form of electricity bills, so they tend to be regular sellers. Most of the time, their selling remains limited, which would make the recent value of the Miner to Exchange Flow in line with the norm.

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The number of individual transfers to exchanges that the miners have made, however, is certainly unusual, so these indicators could be to keep an eye on in the coming days, in case more spikes pop up.

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Bitcoin had surpassed the $69,000 level on Sunday, but the asset appears to have dropped back to $68,200 today.

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The price of the coin has been steadily moving up over the last few days | Source: BTCUSDT on TradingView
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Keshav is currently a senior writer at NewsBTC and has been attached to the website since June 14, 2021.

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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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