Bitcoin (BTC) miner balances began at 1.82 million BTC at the start of the yr. Regardless of peaks of capitulation and important selloff quantity, BTC miner wallets nonetheless sit at a flat 1.8 million BTC.

Mining rewards held in BTC miners’ wallets noticed a pointy decline beginning in August, possible because of the Poolin exodus. This yr noticed the third-largest BTC selloff by miners over a 30-day interval, with 112% of mined provide plus treasury being spent. In distinction, the primary and second-largest selloffs occurred in the course of the 2013 and 2021 bull runs, as miners bought their BTC at a revenue slightly than a loss.

The invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 triggered a world power disaster, leading to excessive prices for BTC miners and wiping out potential earnings.

The miner steadiness presently stands at 1.8 million BTC and has remained flat over the previous 5 years, excluding Patoshis cash. This implies important promote stress if miners proceed to wrestle into 2023.

Whereas BTC miners have been offloading their holdings, that is merely miners shifting to completely different wallets slightly than sending the BTC to exchanges to be bought.

Roughly 200 BTC has been spent day by day since 1000 BTC was bought in late November.

Via 2022, miners promoting to exchanges has remained minimal, with roughly 57,000 BTC bought via the yr.

With solely 57,000 BTC being bought out of a complete of 1.8 million BTC and rising promote stress, it’s price contemplating whether or not BTC miners are getting ready to promote in 2023.

Amid BTC mining firm chapter, record-breaking whale BTC selloffs and miner profitability disaster — 2023 miner capitulation is geared in direction of main selloffs if promote stress continues to mount.