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Bitcoin Market Anxiety Grows: Short-Term Holders Panic As BTC’s Price Remains Range-Bound

Bitcoin is still battling with the recent market crash that occurred last weekend, which has caused the leading cryptocurrency asset to enter a bearish ￰0￱ the sharp pullback from its all-time high of $126,000, a wave of uncertainty and fear has been observed among BTC investors, especially short-term holders. Short-Term Bitcoin Holders Struggling With Uncertainty Presently, Bitcoin is facing strong bearish action, with its price falling towards the $110,000 ￰1￱ a result of this negative price movement, short-term BTC holders are exhibiting pessimistic behavior toward the flagship digital asset. Darkfost, a market expert, disclosed that Bitcoin is still inside a small trading range, but the calm hides a feeling of unease among short-term holders.

“Although BTC continues to hover around $112,500, the STH realized price shows that short-term holders are still panicking,” the expert ￰2￱ feeling of unease among smaller traders highlights the ongoing psychological tension in the market, where speculative investors struggle to find direction because of muted ￰3￱ highlighted that the latest liquidation event caught these smaller investors off ￰4￱ impact was significant as even a slight price decline on Tuesday set off a fresh round of ￰5￱ observed on Tuesday, more than 56,000 BTC held by short-term holders were sitting in losses following the drop in Bitcoin’s ￰6￱ the same time, the huge number of coins was transferred to crypto exchanges , which was more than during the actual liquidation episode last ￰7￱ the interim, these short-term holders are still under heavy pressure from the ongoing bearish price ￰8￱ market expert highlighted that the recent panic-driven movement marks the third time in just a few ￰9￱ to Darkfost, many of these investors are probably the most recent buyers who are attempting to exit at break-even ￰10￱ investor action clearly makes breaking past the $112,500 price level a bit ￰11￱ Large BTC Investors Still Panicking?

With the current observation of Bitcoin movements by large holders , these key investors might also be entering into a state of pessimism and panic. Maartunn’s latest research has uncovered a massive movement of BTC to crypto ￰12￱ inflows to crypto exchanges are picking up pace once again at a rapid ￰13￱ his examination, the market expert noted that 17,184 BTC had been moved to exchanges, marking the highest transfer in two ￰14￱ wave of exchange inflows is being carried out by wallet addresses holding at least 1,000 ￰15￱ whale investors are moving their BTC to crypto exchanges, it signals a potential profit-taking to reposition ahead of anticipated market ￰16￱ it typically precedes significant price swings, this trend could ignite the start of a new distribution phase or temporary liquidity adjustment.

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