Felecia Davis 
Bitcoin’s (BTC) worth tanked to a 52-week low of $20,800 earlier on Wednesday, down by over 70% from its all-time excessive of $68,788. Although the worth has since recovered above $21,000, key market indicators level towards bears having a major maintain on the present market.
Bitcoin Miners to Exchange move, a metric that signifies the quantity of BTC despatched by miners to crypto exchanges, rose to a seven-month excessive of 9,476. The rise in alternate flows signifies miners are presently promoting their BTC in anticipation of the worth taking place.
The actions of the BTC miners usually replicate the bigger market sentiment as they principally promote BTC to make sure they don’t incur losses on their mining rewards. The rise in Bitcoin miners promoting exercise is backed by the numerous decline in mining profitability.
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Mining profitability has dropped over 75% from the highest, and Bitcoin’s hash worth presently sits at $0.0950/TH/day, which is the bottom level since October 2020.
The miner netflow to exchanges has additionally turned optimistic. When the miner netflow is optimistic, it signifies that extra cash are being despatched to exchanges than are being despatched to private wallets. Such conduct would point out that miners are bearish on the worth and are beneath stress to promote.
Many BTC mining rigs have turned unprofitable with the worth dropping under $21,000 and threat being shut down if the worth doesn’t recuperate. The remainder of the crypto market adopted BTC in its worth motion as the general market cap dipped under $1 trillion.
Over the course of the previous decade, BTC has seen quite a few bull cycles adopted by an 80%-90% decline from the highest. However, the BTC worth has by no means fallen under the all-time excessive of the earlier cycle. Currently, BTC is buying and selling very near its 2017 excessive of $19,783, and any potential sell-off from right here might push it to 2017 territory.
