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This Bitcoin Indicator Has Hit Levels That Often Led To Corrections

Keshav Verma
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1 year ago
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On-chain data shows a Bitcoin metric has recently hit levels that have historically led to corrections in the cryptocurrency’s price.

Bitcoin Is Currently 40% Above The Cost Basis Of Short-Term Holders

CryptoQuant Netherlands community manager Maartunn explained in a post on X that the BTC price is currently 40% above the cost basis of the short-term holders.

The indicator of interest here is the “Market Value to Realized Value (MVRV) ratio,” which is an indicator that keeps track of the ratio between the Bitcoin market cap and the realized cap.

The “realized cap” refers to a capitalization model for the asset that assumes that the real value of any coin in circulation isn’t equal to the current spot price but rather the price when it was last transacted on the blockchain.

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The previous transfer of any coin was likely the last point at which it changed hands, so the price at that time would act as its current cost basis. As such, the realized cap is essentially the sum of the cost basis of the entire supply.

Therefore, the metric’s value can measure the total capital the holders have put into the asset. And since the market cap is the value they are currently carrying, its comparison against the realized cap in the MVRV ratio can tell us about the amount of profits or losses the investors hold.

In the current discussion, the MVRV ratio of the entire market isn’t of interest but rather of a particular segment of it: the “short-term holders” (STHs). The STH cohort includes all investors who bought their coins within the past 155 days.

The below chart shows the trend in the Bitcoin MVRV ratio specifically for these investors over the history of the cryptocurrency:

Bitcoin STH MVRV

Looks like the value of the metric has been rising in recent days | Source: @JA_Maartun on X

As displayed in the above graph, the Bitcoin STH MVRV has been greater than 1 for a while now as the STHs have been carrying net profits, but with the latest rally in the asset, the indicator has shot up to especially high levels.

The BTC spot price has recently been 40% over this cohort’s average cost basis. The chart shows that this same level has led to asset corrections a few times in the past.

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Naturally, this doesn’t mean that the coin would necessarily see a correction here, but given the historical pattern, there is a chance one would occur.

The likely reason behind this pattern is that Bitcoin investors are more likely to give in to the allure of profit-taking the larger their profits grow.

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Bitcoin has gone through some significant volatility since setting its brand new all-time high above the $69,000 level, with its price now trading around $67,700.

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BTC has seen a rollercoaster over the past few days | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView
Featured image from André François McKenzie on Unsplash.com, CryptoQuant.com, chart from TradingView.com
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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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