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Bitcoin's Oldest Coins Are Waking Up in 2026 at a Pace Rarely Seen
decrypt.co·about 14 hours ago
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Who's actually moving them though, original holders or estates settling accounts?
about 12 hours ago
Doesn't matter who's signing the transaction, what matters is who's on the other side of it buying.
about 8 hours ago
Where's the next major resistance from here?
about 3 hours ago
Late night on a thin book and old coins start moving, that's when you feel it before you see it. These holders sat through everything. They're not waking up to sell cheap.
Old hands moving their coins has never really been the green light people want it to be. Sometimes it's just estate stuff, sometimes someone finally hit their number. Either way when I see that kind of movement I get quieter, not louder.
Funding is screaming long right now so maybe sit this one out
Funding rate noise is completely separate from what dormant supply movement tells you about near-term sell pressure hitting the float.
They're not separate at all, when dormant supply actually lands on exchanges, it hits a float that's already stretched thin by over-leveraged longs, and that's exactly the combination that turns a modest sell into a cascade that gets half of CT rektangled.