First Mover: Bullish Sign? Bitcoin Transfers From Miners to Exchanges Hit 6.5-Month Low

PLUS: Bitcoin Struggles Near Resistance; Support Around $52K

Everything you need to make sense of the crypto markets and beyond By the CoinDesk Markets Team Edited by Lawrence Lewitinn, Managing Editor, Global Capital Markets April 29, 2021 Sponsored by     Bitcoin (BTC) +0.2%  $54,493 Ether (ETH)  +5.2%  $2,776 (Price data as of April 29 @11:00 UTC) If you were forwarded this newsletter and would like to receive it, sign up here.  Good morning. Here's what we're writing about: Market Moves: Bullish Sign? Bitcoin Transfers From Miners to Exchanges Hit 6.5-Month Low   Technician's Take: Bitcoin Struggles Near Resistance; Support Around $52K   Check out the CoinDesk TV show "First Mover," hosted by Christine Lee, Lawrence Lewitinn and Emily Parker, at 9 a.m. U.S. Eastern time. Today the show will feature guests: Laurence Kehoe, BNY Mellon Director of Digital Assets & Blockchain Matt Weller, Forex.com Global Head of Market Research Greg King, Osprey Funds Founder & CEO Biggest Movers These are the biggest movers in the CoinDesk 20 over the past 24 hours:   Gainers: Algorand (ALGO): +10.3% Cardano (ADA): +9.4% NuCypher (NU): +7.8% Uniswap (UNI): +6.5%   Losers:  Yearn Finance (YFI): -1.4%   The CoinDesk 20 are 20 digital assets filtered from the larger universe of thousands of cryptocurrencies and constitute roughly 99% of the market by volume at eight of the largest and most trustworthy exchanges. Market Moves by Omkar Godbole Bullish Sign? Bitcoin Transfers From Miners to Exchanges Hit 6.5-Month Low Bitcoin miners continue to reduce their supplies to exchanges in a sign of bullish price expectations. The 7-day moving average of the daily volume of coins transferred from miners to exchanges fell to 152.77 BTC on Wednesday, the lowest since Oct. 8, according to data provided by Glassnode. The metric has declined by 80% since topping out at 805 BTC on Feb. 23. Reduced miner supply to exchanges is taken to represent bullish sentiment among those responsible for generating coins. By choosing to hold onto more of their BTC now, it implies miners anticipate selling them later at a higher price. Miners mainly operate on cash and are constant sellers in the market, liquidating at least some part of their holdings every day to fund operational costs. Bitcoin: 7-day average of daily transfers from miners to exchanges (Source: Glassnode) Miners boosted their supply to exchanges in January and February, meaning peak distribution or profit-taking happened back then. Glassnode's miner position change metric, which gauges the 30-day change in the supply held in the miners' addresses, also shows miners have returned to accumulation mode this month. Bitcoin: Miner net position change (Source: Glassnode) The indicator crossed above zero at the end of March, signaling renewed holding by miners, and has now risen to the highest level since September 2018. The balance held in miner addresses has also increased by over 8,000 BTC to 1,809,992 BTC over the past two months, as per Glassnode data. However, reduced miner supply to exchanges does not imply a price rally, as it constitutes a small part of the total network volume, as tweeted by Glassnode's CEO Rafael Schultze-Kraft. As of Wednesday, miner transfers to exchanges accounted for less than 1% of the total exchange inflow of 32,912 BTC. 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The cryptocurrency was trading around $54,000 at the time of writing and could approach lower support around $52,000. Four-hour BTC chart shows support and resistance levels with RSI (Source: TradingView) Bitcoin remains in a downtrend on the four-hour chart defined by a series of lower price highs since the April 14 all-time high around $64,800. There is strong resistance from the $60,000 level and around $56,000. The 100-period moving average on the four-hour chart has kept a lid on price movements since the April 17 sell-off. The relative strength index (RSI) on the four-hour chart is around neutral territory after reaching overbought levels on Tuesday. For now, it appears that buyers are still in profit-taking mode as BTC drifts towards lower support around $52,000. A decisive break above $56,000 is needed to resume the roughly 15% price recovery from the April 25 low. 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