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Story: Bitcoin Holds Near $64,500 as Short-Term Holders Dump and ETF Flows Split

By Sydney TheCMO

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Short-Term Holders Are Bleeding Out. Crypto analyst Darkfost put out numbers that are hard to ignore.

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Long-Term Holders Look Different. Joao Wedson of Alphractal sees something worth watching on the other end of the spectrum.

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ETF Flows Show a Divided Institutional Crowd. On the institutional side, US spot Bitcoin ETFs just came back into positive territory after a…

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Bitcoin's sitting at $64,500 and basically refusing to move. The Federal Reserve's hawkish posture and US-Iran tensions are keeping buyers cautious, and the price action is kind…

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But the on-chain data tells a rougher story.

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Crypto analyst Darkfost put out numbers that are hard to ignore. Short-term Bitcoin holders — STHs in the jargon — have seen their realized capitalization drop nearly 62% from…

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It's not unprecedented. During past bear markets, similar drawdowns in this metric went 70% to 75% deep before bottoming. So we're not there yet, probably.

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Short-term investors tend to be the most reactive group. They bought in during excitement, they're selling during fear.

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Joao Wedson of Alphractal sees something worth watching on the other end of the spectrum. The Long-Term Holder Realized Cap ratio has climbed to 3.9.

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When that ratio approaches 4, it's generally read as a sign that long-term holders — the people who don't panic-sell — are building conviction. They're not dumping.

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Not everyone's reading the same charts the same way, though. Analyst Sykodelic went further out on the limb, forecasting a potential price surge to somewhere between $380,000 and…

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Wild targets get floated in every cycle. Some hit, most don't. The $380K-$450K range would represent a move unlike anything Bitcoin has done before in absolute dollar terms.

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Related: Bitcoin Holds Near $64,200 as ETF Outflows Hit $526.5 Million Across Four Sessions

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On the institutional side, US spot Bitcoin ETFs just came back into positive territory after a stretch of consecutive outflow days. Net inflows hit over $32 million.

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BlackRock's IBIT did the heavy lifting. It pulled in $89.83 million. That's a real number — hard to dismiss.

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