Bitcoin Slips Back Below $57,000 as Short-Term Holders Threaten Volatility

Bitcoin Slips Back Below $57,000 as Short-Term Holders Threaten Volatility

Bitcoin failed to hold levels above $58,000 Thursday morning, slipping to $56,700 and trading flat on the day.

Per data from CoinGecko, the price of Bitcoin is currently $56,794, up 0.6% in the past 24 hours and down 4.7% on the week.

Even as Bitcoin dropped to a little below 20% under its all time high, a new analysis has revealed a growing growing risk factor in the crypto market—short-term holders who are currently underwater on their investments could potentially trigger significant market volatility if they decide to cut their losses.

Despite the average Bitcoin investor remaining in a profitable position, those who have recently entered the market or acquired Bitcoin in the last six months are facing substantial unrealized losses. This dynamic creates a potentially volatile situation that could impact the broader crypto market.

“The Short-Term Holder cohort remains heavily underwater on their holdings, making them a source of risk for the time being,” a report by blockchain intelligence firm Glassnode states. This group’s financial stress is evident in key metrics, with their unrealized losses dominating the overall market picture.

The report cautions that this overall stability could be disrupted if short-term holders decide to exit their positions en masse. The $51,000 price level is identified as a critical support that must be maintained to preserve the current market structure.

The average cost basis for these investors ranges from $59,000 to $65,200, significantly above the current market price.

This situation is reminiscent of the choppy market conditions seen in 2019, rather than a full-scale bear market, the report’s authors noted. However, it still presents a considerable risk.

“Until the spot price reclaims the STH [Short-Term Holder] cost basis of $62.4k, there is an expectation for further market weakness,” the report stated.

The implications of this stress on short-term holders extend beyond their individual positions. Their potential selling pressure could trigger broader market volatility, especially given the current low levels of overall profit and loss-taking activities.

Interestingly, while short-term holders grapple with losses, long-term investors appear to be in a more stable position.

The report indicates that long-term holders have slowed their profit-taking activities, and coins accumulated during the recent all-time high run-up are gradually maturing into long-term holdings.

 

Source: https://decrypt.co/248179/bitcoin-price-flirts-with-55000-as-etfs-see-seventh-day-of-outflows

 

Anndy Lian is an early blockchain adopter and experienced serial entrepreneur who is known for his work in the government sector. He is a best selling book author- “NFT: From Zero to Hero” and “Blockchain Revolution 2030”.

Currently, he is appointed as the Chief Digital Advisor at Mongolia Productivity Organization, championing national digitization. Prior to his current appointments, he was the Chairman of BigONE Exchange, a global top 30 ranked crypto spot exchange and was also the Advisory Board Member for Hyundai DAC, the blockchain arm of South Korea’s largest car manufacturer Hyundai Motor Group. Lian played a pivotal role as the Blockchain Advisor for Asian Productivity Organisation (APO), an intergovernmental organization committed to improving productivity in the Asia-Pacific region.

An avid supporter of incubating start-ups, Anndy has also been a private investor for the past eight years. With a growth investment mindset, Anndy strategically demonstrates this in the companies he chooses to be involved with. He believes that what he is doing through blockchain technology currently will revolutionise and redefine traditional businesses. He also believes that the blockchain industry has to be “redecentralised”.

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Top 10 PEPE Holders: Who Owns the Most PEPE Coins Today?

Top 10 PEPE Holders: Who Owns the Most PEPE Coins Today?

Meme coins are on a bullish run this week, with some of the biggest names on the market, including Dogecoin (DOGE), Shiba Inu (SHIB), and PEPE, seeing massive gains. Although this price rally may not be directly linked to the meme coin frenzy itself, crypto analysts are speculating it is linked to the performance of Bitcoin (BTC), the world’s most popular digital asset.

At the start of February 2024, BTC started to rise and has since gained over 55% of its value, according to data provided by CoinMarketCap. The hike is speculated to have been aided by the recent approval of Bitcoin ETFs as well as the upcoming halving.

PEPE, the third biggest meme coin by market capitalization, saw its price surge by 254% in the past week  —up from $0.000002100 levels to currently sitting at around $0.000007480 as of March 5, 2024, according to CoinMarketCap.

According to data published on Twitter by Lookonchain, the surge in PEPE’s price could have been driven by whale accumulation, as two whales bought $4.9 million worth of PEPE tokens earlier today. But who has the most PEPE to capitalize on the rally?

Let’s look at the largest PEPE holders and where the cryptocurrency could be headed in the future.

Key Takeaways

  • Memecoins, including DOGE, SHIB, and PEPE, have experienced significant gains, potentially driven by the recent surge in BTC’s price and favorable market conditions.
  • PEPE has seen a remarkable 254% price surge in the past week, which could be partly attributed to whale accumulation.
  • Recent whale activity showed five wallets, assumed to be controlled by the same entity, selling 970 billion PEPE coins, making substantial profits since purchasing the digital assets.
  • The top 10 PEPE owners collectively hold over 45% of the total token supply, a significant portion indicating potential influence over price movements.
  • Celebrities like Elon Musk have historically influenced meme coin ownership through endorsements and online activity.

Who Owns the Most PEPE? Top 10 PEPE Holders

PEPE holders were exceptionally active on March 5, 2024, according to data provided by Lookonchain.

Anndy Lian, the author of NFT: From Zero to Hero, speculated that PEPE’s recent price jump might have been driven by a combination of factors, including a surge in demand and popularity of meme coins and the viral marketing and social media campaigns put out by the PEPE team and community.

Lookonchain found that five wallets, that are assumed to be the same person, sold 970 billion PEPE tokens, making around $5.66 million in profit since purchasing the tokens on January 15, 2024, for $1.18 million at the time.

 

According to the provided data, which was collected through Etherscan, these are the five wallet addresses:

  • 0x570cFE86ec71Cdae2D104a5A8F316d20de3C26F1
  • 0xFB37D526991EBeb92EE0C9B6D7EbD4a5C9c24f02
  • 0xd0dcf500901D9296a1F3489955857B0367103AF1
  • 0x43d9325467e3EdA336C7fa34cbA0991E9A38fAAF
  • 0x5c77655D1C768d6f6386Bc4CD85aeCB9F8f714b2

Additionally, another PEPE holder with the following wallet address 0x522e48ce64d357743935d932f4854b31e0928472 deposited 200 billion tokens (amounting to $1.48 million) to Binance for profit, according to data on Etherscan, holding onto an additional 400 billion ($2.91 million) tokens.

But are these the biggest PEPE holders?

The total number of PEPE tokens in circulation as of March 5, 2024, surpasses 420 trillion coins, according to data published on CoinMarketCap.

As of the same date, CoinCarp noted that PEPE was held by 171,107 individual wallets. The top 10 PEPE owners held over 45% of the total token supply, and the top 100 held over 73%, showing that these whales could yield significant influence over where the price of the cryptocurrency could be headed.

Ethercan provided similar data but noted that the total number of PEPE holders stands at around 171,956 individual wallets.

# Address name Quantity  %
1 0xf977814e90da44bfa03b6295a0616a897441acec
Binance8 
86,937,371,231,577 20.67
2 0x6cc5f688a315f3dc28a7781717a9a798a59fda7b
OKX
23,359,359,502,097 5.55
3 0x5a52e96bacdabb82fd05763e25335261b270efcb
Binance28
19,793,289,492,570 4.7
4 0xf89d7b9c864f589bbf53a82105107622b35eaa40
Bybit: Hot Wallet
15,497,168,347,419 3.68
5 0x16b2b042f15564bb8585259f535907f375bdc415
Kraken33
9,592,676,526,587 2.28
6 0xf3b0073e3a7f747c7a38b36b805247b222c302a3
Crypto.com6
9,090,087,727,861 2.16
7 0x28c6c06298d514db089934071355e5743bf21d60
Binance14
8,767,537,942,522 2.08
8 0x835678a611b28684005a5e2233695fb6cbbb0007 7,242,850,000,000 1.72
9 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dead 6,917,069,267,049 1.64
10 0xd6216fc19db775df9774a6e33526131da7d19a2c
KyCoin6
5,635,658,884,120 1.34

 

According to the data provided above, the top 10 PEPE owners hold trillions of tokens, meaning that the whales conducting most major token movements earlier today are much lower on the list. The wallet holding 400 billion PEPE tokens is the 83rd biggest PEPE billionaire, according to CoinCarp.

Lian noted that whales may have different investment strategies, especially when it comes to PEPE, because the top 10 holders own a big amount of the total supply. This makes it harder for investors to predict their actions, which may not “necessarily be coordinated”.

Musk’s Impact on the PEPE Market

Celebrities have been a long-time known factor for wielding influence in memecoin ownership, with some of the most prominent names online, like Elon Musk and Mark Cuban promoting DOGE, for example.

According to the official PEPE coin website:

“$PEPE is a meme coin with no intrinsic value or expectation of financial return. There is no formal team or roadmap. the coin is completely useless and for entertainment purposes only.”

And because of this, recent price hikes and PEPE millionaire investments could be associated with people wanting to jump in on a trend and FOMO.

Lian said:

“The increasing popularity and demand for meme coins, especially after the success of Shiba Inu and Dogecoin, created a FOMO (fear of missing out) effect among investors and traders who wanted to catch the next big wave.”

A recent tweet reply by Elon Musk, stating that the entrepreneur will soon start posting memes again could have further triggered the positive movement amid top holders of PEPE.

 

Although Musk has never spoken about owning PEPE directly, his online activity has previously proven to have influenced the token’s price. On May 13, 2023, the entrepreneur posted a tweet featuring the token’s mascot, Pepe the Frog, which led the token to surge by nearly 50% in just 24 hours.

Investing in PEPE Is Simply “Fun”

Lian explained that you can never know for certain why whale accounts are buying into a certain cryptocurrency or not.

“Whales may be buying into the coin for various reasons, such as speculation, diversification, or support. Some whales may be buying PEPE as a speculative investment, hoping to profit from its price fluctuations or future growth. Others may be buying PEPE as a way of diversifying their portfolio, adding some exposure to the meme coin sector.”

On a more personal note, Lian saw the investment as a way of supporting the project and meme culture and showing appreciation for a project and its community.

“After so many years in the space, if a crypto investor would value ‘intrinsic value’ higher, I would ask him to go and buy more ‘stonks’. To me, it is fun or entertainment, enjoying the thrill or humor of investing in a meme coin that makes a bull market more exciting. Of course, none of this is financial advice.”

The Bottom Line

The recent bullish momentum in PEPE’s price reflects a good period for crypto markets. While whale movements and the concentration of PEPE coins among the 100 top holders could raise some questions about market dynamics and potential influence on price movements, the light-hearted nature of the memecoin tends to draw investors in.

 

Source: https://www.techopedia.com/who-owns-the-most-pepe

Anndy Lian is an early blockchain adopter and experienced serial entrepreneur who is known for his work in the government sector. He is a best selling book author- “NFT: From Zero to Hero” and “Blockchain Revolution 2030”.

Currently, he is appointed as the Chief Digital Advisor at Mongolia Productivity Organization, championing national digitization. Prior to his current appointments, he was the Chairman of BigONE Exchange, a global top 30 ranked crypto spot exchange and was also the Advisory Board Member for Hyundai DAC, the blockchain arm of South Korea’s largest car manufacturer Hyundai Motor Group. Lian played a pivotal role as the Blockchain Advisor for Asian Productivity Organisation (APO), an intergovernmental organization committed to improving productivity in the Asia-Pacific region.

An avid supporter of incubating start-ups, Anndy has also been a private investor for the past eight years. With a growth investment mindset, Anndy strategically demonstrates this in the companies he chooses to be involved with. He believes that what he is doing through blockchain technology currently will revolutionise and redefine traditional businesses. He also believes that the blockchain industry has to be “redecentralised”.

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Who owns the most Jasmy crypto? High concentration among top 10 holders as price of Japan’s bitcoin plumbs new depths

Who owns the most Jasmy crypto? High concentration among top 10 holders as price of Japan’s bitcoin plumbs new depths

JasmyCoin (JASMY) has been on a bear run for over a year now, falling by more than 99% since peaking for the last time in May 2021. As of 11 November, the coin was valued at $0.0041.

Despite a downfall in JASMY price action, the token has been seeing a surge in active addresses. Let’s have a closer look at who owns the most JASMY crypto.

What is JASMY?

Jasmy is a Japanese internet of things (IoT) company that aims to make data sharing safer, and more decentralised and democratised. It specialises in the safe buying and selling of personal data. It was founded in April 2016 by Kunitake Ando and Kazumasa Sato, two former Sony executives, and Hiroshi Harada, a former employee at KPMG.

Harada, who serves as the platform’s CFO, told Binance in an interview in September 2022:

“Jasmy’s mission is to create a mechanism/platform which allows all users to take ownership of their own data in a secure and private manner. Instead of letting a handful of big tech corporations take control of such sensitive data, Jasmy aims to help enable a world where everyone can feel safe and secure about the use of their own data.”

The platform allows users to:

  • Store and control their data in a safe and secure environment
  • Safely and securely manage and control their devices
  • Provide safe and secure use of their data under clear rules

Jasmy’s Personal Data Locker (PDL) provides users with full ownership over their personal data while its Secure Knowledge Communicator (SKC) is responsible for the achievement of data democracy.

The platform promises to provide its customers with an IoT platform that will help them manage their IoT data securely and efficiently; IoT devices and services that will help customers with the development and maintenance of their IoT platforms and thorough data analysis which will be used for the further improvement of the platform.

Jasmy’s native token, JasmyCoin (JASMY), is used by companies that wish to purchase the users’ data stored on the platform. The token can also be used by users as investment, for governance and metaverse utility. JASMY was built on the Ethereum (ETH) ecosystem and is an ERC-20 token.

JASMY was launched at the end of October 2021 and has been dubbed  as “Japan’s bitcoin”.

JASMY supply explained

According to data provided by CoinMarketCap, JASMY has a maximum and total supply of 50 billion coins. This makes the coin a deflationary asset, similar to bitcoin (BTC), due to the limit on how many coins can be mined.

As of 11 November 2022, the token had a circulating supply surpassing 4.7 billion and a market capitalisation of $19.4m.

JASMY was Japan’s first ever legally approved cryptocurrency as the country had imposed a strict regulation for this market. It was listed on the Japanese crypto exchange BITpoint on 27 October 2021.

The cryptocurrency was met with a lot of enthusiasm upon its launch, skyrocketing by more than 230% in four days from $1.3024 on 12 February 2021 to $4.2929 – an all-time high following its listing on the crypto exchange Gate.io.

After the fast surge, the token lost over 58% of its value falling to $1.7851 by 22 February 2021, but managed to regain 67% of its value soon after, reaching $2.9628 on 2 March 2021.

JASMY grew past the $2 barrier once again on 9 March 2021 as the platform announced it had joined GitHub, thus providing a space where its users could discuss upcoming projects, news and bugs.

JASMY to USD chart, February 2021 – November 2022

JASMY to USD chart, February 2021 – November 2022

Source: CoinMarketCap

By 5 May 2021, however, the coin lost around 50% of its value, falling to $1.0965 before seeing a mini-surge on the following day and rising to $2.1586. The bullish price action did not last long. The coin entered a bear run, falling by 95% in the following weeks and reaching $0.05456 on 20 June 2021.

Since then, the coin was unable to reach previous highs, falling by an additional 92.4% to $0.004122 as of 11 November 2022.

Who owns the most JASMY crypto?

In the past two months, JASMY lost over 57% of its value, falling from $0.009717 on 10 September 2022 to $0.004122 on 11 November 2022. Despite the continued bear trend, token concertation among the top 10 JASMY holders remained high.

Data published on Sanbase showed that the number of active JASMY token addresses spiked to 673 on 30 October from 224 the day before. The number of active JASMY holders spiked once again on 9 November to 719 from a low of 273 on 7 November 2022.

So, who has the most JASMY tokens? Data provided by etherscan.io showed that there are 36,169 JASMY holders in total. The 10 biggest JASMY holders, as of 11 November, collectively owned 51.33% of the total token supply in circulation, meanwhile the top 100 owned 85.44%.

The website noted that the top account holding the most JASMY tokens was the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange Binance (BNB). Binance owned 23.43% of the total supply, which amounted to 11.7 billion JASMY coins worth around $48,500, as of 11 November. It’s likely that the exchange is holding the tokens on behalf of its users.

The second on etherscan’s top holders of JASMY list was crypto exchange Mexc.com. It owned 5.86% of the total supply, amounting to 2.9 billion tokens. Mexc.com could own JASMY tokens on behalf of its users.

The third biggest JASMY account was Jasmy Deployer which held 4.8% of the tokens’ total supply amounting  to 2.4 billion coins. The fourth and fifth biggest JASMY holders were two anonymous wallets holding 4.12% (1.34 billion coins) and 2.7% (1.29 billion coins) of the tokens’ total supply respectively.

Analyst views on Jasmy’s tokenomics

Knowing who owns the most JASMY tokens can be of use to many retail investors and traders, Anndy Lian, chief digital advisor at the Mongolian Productivity Organisation and author of ‘NFT: From Zero to Hero’, told Capital.com:

“The concentration of tokens on exchanges on leading exchanges such as Binance is a confidence booster for many retail investors.

“JASMY has gained interest from some of the biggest names in Japan’s technology industry. Pansonic and VAIO have also partnered with JASMY. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the largest call centre in Japan, Transcosmos, used JASMY to secure its data. The big names using JASMY’s technology are a really attractive selling point for retail investors.”

Lian added that for JASMY to truly grow, the firm would need to showcase its technology and focus on revenue.

“After all, they are the first legally compliant Japanese crypto coin listed on the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange. Japanese law strictly governs cryptocurrency transactions subject to Financial Services Agency inspections. Being accountable by Japanese law, they need to walk away from fluff and hype and concentrate on real business first.”

Please note that analysts’ predictions and opinions can be wrong. The information about the biggest cryptocurrency whales and ownership concentration shouldn’t be used as a substitute for your own research. Always conduct your own due diligence before trading. And never invest or trade money you cannot afford to lose.

 

Source: https://capital.com/jasmy-token-who-owns-most-jasmycoin-crypto

Anndy Lian is an early blockchain adopter and experienced serial entrepreneur who is known for his work in the government sector. He is a best selling book author- “NFT: From Zero to Hero” and “Blockchain Revolution 2030”.

Currently, he is appointed as the Chief Digital Advisor at Mongolia Productivity Organization, championing national digitization. Prior to his current appointments, he was the Chairman of BigONE Exchange, a global top 30 ranked crypto spot exchange and was also the Advisory Board Member for Hyundai DAC, the blockchain arm of South Korea’s largest car manufacturer Hyundai Motor Group. Lian played a pivotal role as the Blockchain Advisor for Asian Productivity Organisation (APO), an intergovernmental organization committed to improving productivity in the Asia-Pacific region.

An avid supporter of incubating start-ups, Anndy has also been a private investor for the past eight years. With a growth investment mindset, Anndy strategically demonstrates this in the companies he chooses to be involved with. He believes that what he is doing through blockchain technology currently will revolutionise and redefine traditional businesses. He also believes that the blockchain industry has to be “redecentralised”.

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