Crypto Exchanges
By James Thorp
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What Coinbase Actually Did in November 2025. On November 22 and 23, Coinbase moved 800,000 BTC between its own wallets.
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The $80,000 Wall Traders Can't Ignore. Darkfost also flagged a resistance level that's probably more immediately relevant to anyone…
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Reading the Data More Carefully. The Coinbase situation is a good reminder of how fragile on-chain signals can be.
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Bitcoin dipped below $75,000 on Saturday. Now it's clawing back toward $77,000, and traders are watching on-chain data for clues.
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Pseudonymous analyst Darkfost posted on X that Bitcoin's long-term holder supply jumped from 15 million to 15.8 million BTC over recent days. Big number. Sounds bullish.
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On November 22 and 23, Coinbase moved 800,000 BTC between its own wallets. Internal housekeeping, basically.
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The irony is that long-term holder supply growth is normally one of the more reliable signals in Bitcoin analysis.
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So the apparent surge in long-term holder supply? It's there in the charts. It's just not real in the way that matters.
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Related: Crypto Sector Cuts Over 5,000 Jobs in 2026 as AI Drives Layoffs at Block, Coinbase, and Gemini
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Bitcoin was trading around $76,490 at the time of writing, up roughly 1% on the day. That's a decent bounce off the Saturday low, but it's still well below that $80,000 threshold.
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Breaking above $80,000 isn't just a technical milestone — it'd probably signal that demand is genuine and that the market can absorb the overhead supply sitting at those price…
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The Coinbase situation is a good reminder of how fragile on-chain signals can be. One large internal transfer — even one with zero market impact at the time — can ripple through…
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It's not that on-chain data is useless. Far from it. But large exchange-level movements like this one can create ghost signals — patterns that look meaningful but aren't.
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More context: Coinbase Premium Hits Monthly Low as Institutional Selling Mounts
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And the context here is pretty clear. Coinbase moved 800,000 BTC internally. Those coins aged into long-term holder status on Saturday. The metric moved.
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