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What to know:
- Long-term holder supply has increased by more than 2 million BTC during the current bear market, including a 200,000 BTC rise in the past month alone.
- This is typical behavior – long-term holders tends to buy into price weakness and sell into price strength.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Bitcoin long-term holder (LTH) must be in want of a market cycle to test their patience. Currently, 16.3 million BTC resides in the coffers of these esteemed custodians of wealth, who have held their coin for at least 155 days-long enough to forget the price, yet not so long as to be accused of neglect.
From the lofty heights of $126,000 in October, when Mr. Market fancied himself a suitor to Bitcoin, LTH supply swelled from 14.12 million BTC to its present 16.3 million. A mere month hath seen an addition of 200,000 BTC, a feat most impressive, if one ignores the fact that it took a bear market to accomplish it.
The only prior occasion when LTHs displayed such audacity was January 2024, ere the U.S. spot bitcoin ETF’s grand debut-a spectacle of such magnitude that even the Queen of England might have paused her tea to remark upon it. Yet, as the months unfurled, these same LTHs distributed nearly 2 million BTC, proving that even the most steadfast hearts may waver in the face of fortune’s fickle whims.
In times of price weakness, or what the less refined call a “bear market,” long-term holders, those paragons of wisdom, doth begin to accumulate, having divested their treasures during the previous bull’s folly. In 2015 and 2019, when the market’s tides turned tempestuous, LTHs amassed their piles with the grace of a matron gathering ribbons at a charity bazaar.
Since the ETF’s January 2024 launch, however, LTHs have danced between 14 million and 16 million BTC, a range as predictable as the changing of the seasons. Now, it seems, they have broken free of a 2.5-year downtrend-a move as surprising as a debutante refusing to curtsy. Whether this signifies accumulation or merely a misstep in the ballroom of economics remains to be seen.
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2026-05-21 16:25