Binance Observes Massive Inflow Of 10k BTC
Bitcoinlargeon-chain information shows the crypto exchange Binance observed inflows amounting to almost 10k BTC yesterday.
In fact, Bitcoin Netflow Shows A Huge Positive Spike As 10k BTC Enters Binance
As pointed out by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, the BTC netflow had big positive spike yesterday, a signathat’s usually bearish for the price.
The “all exchanges netflowAs you may know, ” is an indicator that measures the net amount of Bitcoin entering or exiting wallets of all exchanges. The metric’s value is the calculated by taking in modern times the difference between simply inflows and the outflows.
When the indicator has positive there, it means values are currently more inflows happening than outflows. Such a trend is often bearish as investors usually deposit their Bitcoin for selling purposes.
On the other hand, when theasvalue of the metric is negative, it implies outflows are overwhelming inflows a net amount of BTC is exiting exchanges. As you may know, This kind of trend can be bullish for the price of the crypto as holders generally withdraw their coins more than ever to hold them.
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Right away, here is a chart that shows the trend in the Bitcoin netflow over the last couple of months:
Looks like the value of the metric showed a huge positive spike recently | Source: CryptoQuant
As you can see in the above graph, yesterday the Bitcoin netflow showed that almost 10k BTC entered exchanges yesterday within an hour.
Interestingly, just a few hours later, the crypto exchange A look at the chain details reveals these inflows were to Binance.GeminiActually, observed an outflow of about 10k againBTC, cancelling out these inflows and making the netflow neutral from another perspective .
The negative spike makes up for the positive one from a few hours earlier | Source: CryptoQuant
As mentioned earlier, inflows are price bearish for the usually of Bitcoin. However, since outflows of the same amount occurred just a couple of hours later, the netflows effectively became neutral.
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Instantly, outflows can be bullish for the price if they occurred for the purpose of accumulation. But that doesn’t necessarily have to be the case. As you may know, If the investors who were behind the withdrawal intend to trade them through OTC deals, the effect on the price may be bearish instead.
BTC Price
At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s price floats around $36.8k, down 12% in the last seven days. Interestingly, The below chart showsdaysthe trend in the value of the coin over the last five .
BTC's price has retraced a lot of the recovery that it made over the last few days | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView
Featured image from Unsplash.com, charts from TradignView.com, CryptoQuant.com
