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Breaking News: CryptoQuant Issues Stark Forecast — Bitcoin May Fall As Low As $10,000 This Year

Bitcoin Sharks & Whales Capitulate: Realized Loss Exceeds $200M

Keshav Verma
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Last Updated: April 4, 2026 6:00 am
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On-chain data shows the large Bitcoin holders have been participating in a notable amount of loss realization recently, a sign of capitulation.

Bitcoin Sharks & Whales See High Values On Realized Loss Metric

In a new post on X, on-chain analytics firm Glassnode has talked about the latest trend in the Bitcoin Realized Loss for the sharks and whales. The “Realized Loss” here refers to an indicator that measures, as its name suggests, the total amount of loss that BTC holders are realizing through their transactions.

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In the context of the current topic, the version of the metric that’s of relevance is the one tracking the transfers related to two specific investor cohorts: the sharks and whales. These groups cover the 100 to 1,000 BTC and 1,000 to 10,000 BTC ranges, respectively. As such, the only investors who would qualify for the sharks and whales would be the big-money hands.

Recently, the market as a whole has seen some pain as bearish momentum has dominated the sector, leading to loss-taking selloffs among investors. The sharks and whales haven’t been any different in behavior, as the chart for their Realized Loss shows.

Bitcoin Realized Loss
The value of the metric seems to have been at a notable level in recent weeks | Source: Glassnode on X

As displayed in the above graph, the Bitcoin sharks and whales have observed the 7-day simple moving average (SMA) of their combined Realized Loss sit at significant levels recently.

From the chart, it’s visible that the loss realization spiked to particularly high levels following the price crashes in November and February, indicating a pronounced degree of market pain surrounding the events.

Today, the 7-day SMA of the Bitcoin Realized Loss for the sharks and whales has a value greater than $200 million per day. “Typical capitulation behaviour from larger entities,” noted the analytics firm.

Historically, major capitulation phases have tended to pave the way for bottoms as coins tend to transfer from weak hands to more resolute entities during such events. It now remains to be seen whether the loss taking from big-money investors has been extreme enough for a bottom yet.

In some other news, Bitcoin has nearly arrived at the halfway point to the next Halving, as Glassnode has highlighted in another X post. Halvings are events that permanently slash in half BTC’s block subsidy, the compensation that miners receive for adding the next block to the chain.

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Halvings occur about every four years, with the next such event currently estimated to occur in April 2028. Bitcoin will reach the halfway point to this event at block 945,000. At the moment, the chain is at block 943,495.

Bitcoin Block Height

How BTC's block height has grown over its history | Source: Glassnode on X

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Bitcoin has continued to consolidate recently as its price is trading around $67,000.

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The trend in the price of the coin over the last five 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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