Bitcoin Diamond Hands: Despite Recent Fear, Coins Aged 12-18 Months Rise To 2-Year High

Keshav Verma

3 years ago

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Despite the recent fearful market, Bitcoin hodlers show diamond hands as coins aged 12-18 months touch a 2-year high.

Coins Matured To 12-18 Months Revisit A High Not Seen Since 2 Years

As pointed out by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, BTC hodlers have held strong recently as coins aged 12-18 months have seen a sharp spike recently.

The relevant on-chain indicator here is the Bitcoin Sum Coin Age (SCA) Distribution that shows the distribution of coins among the different holders in the market.

The metric works by looking at each coin on the chain and measuring how many days it has been since it was last moved. Based on the age, these coins are put into different categories.

For instance, if a coin has been sitting still since 12-18 months ago, it is included in the 12-18 months holder group.

When the distribution of the long-term holders goes up, it means accumulation has been strong recently. Such a trend has usually been bullish for the price of Bitcoin as it shows a large number of holders refuse to sell at the current levels.

On the other hand, when coins belonging to short-term holders move up, it means some long-term holders have decided to sell. This trend may be bearish for the price of the crypto.

Now, here is a chart that shows the trend in the supply of coins that have matured to 12-18 months (one of the long-term holder groups):

Looks like the value of the indicator has shot up recently | Source: CryptoQuant

As you can see in the above graph, the coins aged 12-18 months have sharply rose recently, reaching a 2-year high. The highlighted region in the chart is around when these holders bought these coins.

This means that these Bitcoin holders have now held strong through multiple all-time highs, the mini-bear period between May-July, as well as the recent fearful market.

Hodlers showing such diamond hands behavior can prove to be quite bullish for the price of the coin in the long term.

Bitcoin Price

Earlier today, Bitcoin’s price crashed below $40k, touching as low as $38k. Since then, the coin hasn’t recovered much yet.

At the time of writing the crypto’s price floats around $38.8k, down 7% in the last seven days. Over the past month, the coin has lost 17% in value.

The below chart shows the trend in the price of BTC over the last five days.

After weeks of consolidation, BTC's price seems to have finally crashed below the $40k level | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView

Featured image from Unsplash.com, charts from TradingView.com, CryptoQuant.com

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.

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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.

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