The reported selling is attributed to Bitcoin’s long-term holder cohort, the wallets that have held coins long enough to be classified as durable, low-velocity supply. For related coverage, see Malone Lam Pleads Guilty in $245 Million Bitcoin Case .
Long-term Bitcoin holders sold 539,000 BTC in the $77,000 to $80,000 price range this year, according to unconfirmed reports attributing the figure to on-chain analytics firm CryptoQuant. The claim, which speaks directly to the behavior of Bitcoin’s most patient cohort, could not be traced to an original CryptoQuant report and should be treated as unverified.
CryptoQuant Says Long-Term Bitcoin Holders Sold 539,000 BTC
The reported selling is attributed to Bitcoin’s long-term holder cohort, the wallets that have held coins long enough to be classified as durable, low-velocity supply. A single circulating report ties the 539,000 BTC total to CryptoQuant, but the original analysis, chart and methodology were not accessible for this article. For related coverage, see Malone Lam Pleads Guilty in $245 Million Bitcoin Case.
The available context describes the timeframe only as “this year.” It does not identify a calendar year, a measurement cutoff, or the specific holding-period threshold used to define the long-term holder cohort, so those details remain unconfirmed. For related coverage, see Revolut Reportedly Exposes KYC Data and Bitcoin Histories.
Cohort composition matters when interpreting figures like this. A Glassnode report noted that recent top buyers aging into long-term-holder status can raise the unrealized losses carried within that group, a dynamic Glassnode documented in its April 16, 2025 analysis. That same report found roughly 75% of circulating Bitcoin supply in profit at the time, a historical reading rather than a current one, echoing later coverage of how much of the supply sits in profit.
The Reported $77,000–$80,000 Bitcoin Price Range
The reported sales are placed within a band running from $77,000 to $80,000. The figure connects that range to the same long-term holder selling, but the supplied context does not establish how the sales were distributed across the band or whether those levels represent execution prices rather than cost basis.
For reference, Bitcoin traded at $77,349 in a separate market snapshot retrieved September 12, 2026, up about 0.55% over 24 hours, with a market capitalization near $1.55 trillion and 24-hour volume around $32.9 billion. This spot reading is a distinct retrieval and does not confirm the holder-sales claim or the price at the time of the reported CryptoQuant analysis.
Bitcoin spot price · USD
$77,349
Broader market sentiment sat in Greed territory, with the Fear & Greed Index reading 63 on September 12, 2026. That gauge measures the market as a whole and is not a reaction to the reported holder selling.
What the Reported Sales Figure Does Not Establish
The supplied context carries no methodology, no historical comparison and no buyer-demand data, so the reported selling cannot on its own point to a future Bitcoin price direction or a causal market impact. Without a baseline, it is also impossible to say whether the volume is unusually large relative to earlier periods.
Nor should the figure be equated with exchange deposits, a net change in holder balances, or realized losses, none of which the available evidence confirms. Related on-chain reporting frames the cohort differently: crypto.news cited a 30-day average long-term-holder SOPR of 1.18 on January 13, 2026, below an annual average near 2.0, with a brief dip in the underlying metric below 1.0.
How committed holders behave feeds directly into Bitcoin’s monetary properties, the same lens through which analysts weigh corporate accumulation, such as Strategy tying its Bitcoin buys to capital costs, and steady institutional demand via spot ETF inflows. Until CryptoQuant’s original series and cohort definition are published, the 539,000 BTC figure remains a claim to verify rather than an established fact.
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