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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure On-chain data shows the Bitcoin short-term holder whales have been taking significantly more profits than the diamond hands in this rally. New Bitcoin Whales Are Participating In Notable Profit-Taking In a new post on X, CryptoQuant author Axel Adler Jr. discussed how profit-taking has recently looked from the two major Bitcoin whale cohorts: the short-term holder and long-term holder whales. The short-term holders (STHs) and long-term holders (LTHs) are two broad divisions of the BTC network done on the basis of holding time, with the cutoff between them being 155 days. Similarly, ‘whales‘ are also a classification of the asset’s investors, but in this case, the criterion is holding balance. More particularly, whales are defined as holders with more than 1,000 BTC. As such, the STH and LTH whales would refer to the big-money members of the STH and LTH groups, respectively. Now, here is the chart shared by the analyst that shows the trend in the total amount of profit realized by these groups during the past few months: Looks like the STH whales have shown some large profit-taking spikes in recent weeks | Source: @JA_Maartun on X As displayed in the above graph, both of the groups have participated in some degree of profit-taking recently. Still, clearly, the new whales who got into the market in the past five months have been the ones making up for the majority of this selling. This trend is different from how it was in January, when the profit realization was more balanced across these cohorts. Historically, the STHs have tended to be reactive to market events, while the LTHs have shown resilience. So, the whales falling to the temptation of profit realization in the recent rally may not…

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