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Bitcoin miners' impact on the market's selling pressure was examined in a blog post by Luxor Technologies' Hashrate Index, which offers high-quality mining analytics to cryptocurrency miners.
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Since miners are the net sellers of Bitcoin, the blog first proves that they routinely exert some selling pressure on the market.
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Furthermore, whether and when the miners sell during a downturn market affects the strength of the selling pressure.
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The "hodl-at-any-cost" treasury strategy of BTC miners represents their propensity to sell the most valuable cryptocurrency during bull markets at the expense of doing so during bad markets.
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Although researchers believe that miners' selling pressure during bear markets has a negative impact on the price of Bitcoin, they have yet to confirm this.
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Many people in the crypto world believe that miners control a sizable portion of the Bitcoin supply that is currently in circulation.
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Popular on-chain data tools like CoinMetrics and Glassnode, according to the article's author Jaran Mellerud, "certainly grossly exaggerate the miners' bitcoin holdings."
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But by obtaining information from publicly available miner holdings, he verifies estimations of BTC holdings made by miners.
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Mellerud believes that the blog's estimate of miners' holdings at 30,000 BTC at 25% of bitcoin's hashrate as of December 1 is low compared to the metric platforms.
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He gives a midpoint estimate of 470,000 bitcoin, which, when compared to the 19.2 million now in circulation, represents barely 2% of the total.
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