This Bitcoin Range The Next Key Resistance, Analytics Firm Says

The market intelligence platform IntoTheBlock has revealed where the next major obstacle for Bitcoin could lie, according to on-chain data.

In a new post on X, IntoTheBlock has discussed about how the various BTC price ranges are looking in terms of on-chain resistance and support. In on-chain analysis, the strength of any support or resistance range is assumed to lie in the amount of supply that was last purchased/transacted by investors at price levels falling in said range.

That is, strong support/resistance ranges carry the cost basis of a large number of addresses. The reason behind this is that to any investor, their break-even level is naturally a special level, so when retests of it happen, they are probable to make some kind of move.

Holders who were in loss prior to such a retest may be tempted to sell, as they would at least recoup all of their investment. Investors who were in profit, however, may decide to buy more instead, as they could believe the same acquisition level would end up paying off again in the future.

Naturally, just a few investors showing this buying/selling would have no effects on the cryptocurrency’s price, so the range would need to contain the cost basis of a significant amount of addresses if it has to act as a resistance or support boundary.

Now, here is the chart shared by the analytics firm, that shows how the Bitcoin supply is distributed at ranges around the current spot price:

In the graph, the size of the dot correlates to the amount of coins that the investors purchased inside the corresponding range. It would appear that one range ahead of the current price particularly stands out in terms of the size of its dot: $95,400 to $98,200.

At these price levels, around 2.29 million addresses purchased a total of 1.66 million tokens. Given that the range is above the asset’s price at the moment, all of these investors would be in the red.

Bitcoin has recently gone through a rollercoaster where it plunged below $80,000 and recovered back above $90,000, all within the matter of a few days. As such, these underwater holders may be especially eager for the price to get back to their cost basis.

“Fearful sentiment can trigger these holders to sell at break-even prices, thus providing resistance,” explains IntoTheBlock. It now remains to be seen whether demand would be enough to outpace these potential sellers, if BTC can rally far enough to retest this range.

Bitcoin neared the $95,000 level during the latest price rally, but it seems its price has since faced a retrace as it’s now back to $90,700.