Bitcoin (BTC) stuck rigidly to its tight range on Dec. 23 as price action continued to contradict strong buying activity.
Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD failing to hold $49,000 after hitting 10-day highs.
The pair remained stuck in a trading zone only around $4,000 wide, a key factor fuelling bets that a “short squeeze” would hit over the holiday period.
Against declining volatility, data reinforced conviction among investors, with the supply being bought up at roughly three times the rate of new BTC being mined.
“Strong handed HODLers are absorbing supply at more than triple the rate of new coins being mined each day,” on-chain analytics firm Glassnode summarized in the latest edition of its weekly
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