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Bitcoin’s weekly trend over the past six months has been concerning An investigation of its on-chain metrics revealed that BTC’s top might be a year away Bitcoin [BTC] has been on a slow downtrend since early June when it began to register lower highs and lower lows on the weekly chart. However, the Founder and CEO of CryptoQuant Ki Young Ju is confident that Bitcoin is still “mid-cycle.” Source: Ki Young Ju on X In a post on X, he highlighted that the BTC Coinbase spot volume dominance is back to its early 2024 levels, when spot ETF approval was yet to come. This was not a bullish development, and an increase in U.S investors is necessary to take Bitcoin to its highs. AMBCrypto then used on-chain metrics to see whether the cycle is really only halfway through or not, and the results were hopeful. Profit-taking behavior has long-term bullish implications Source: CryptoQuant The UTXO age bands showed the percentage distribution of realized cap across different UTXO age bands. Here, the chart represents the ratio of the realized cap of spent UTXOs that were moved. The 3-month to 2-year UTXO ages have sharper peaks and valleys in different parts of the cycle. Towards the market top, these age bands fall precipitously, forming bottoms roughly around the market top. The ensuing downtrend saw them climb higher, representing more holders re-entering the Bitcoin market as buyers. Between the cycle tops, a shallower peak and trough that lasted a few months can be seen too. That does not represent the cycle top, but does imply holders thought it was a top. We can see this during October 2013, October 2016, and April 2020. The previous two peaks came within months of BTC’s halving, showing another wave of accumulation around the halving that would…

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