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Glassnode’s Week Onchain report says Bitcoin is trading below its True Market Mean, a cost-basis model the firm estimates at around $77,200. With BTC roughly 15% below that level, the report characterizes the market as still in a repair phase rather than a confirmed bullish recovery.
The True Market Mean is not presented as a direct support or resistance line. Instead, it is an onchain model intended to reflect the average acquisition price of economically active coins. Because cost-basis models track where investor cohorts sit in profit or loss, traders often use them to gauge whether sentiment has shifted from stress to recovery.
When price trades below a widely watched cost-basis band, it typically signals that a meaningful portion of active supply is under pressure. That does not guarantee further downside, but it can help explain why rallies may struggle.
Investors who are underwater may be more likely to sell into rebounds, while short-term holders may be reluctant to add exposure until breakeven levels are regained.
Glassnode’s framing emphasizes that Bitcoin can still bounce, absorb selling, and show accumulation signals while remaining below the level that would confirm broader strength. The report links this nuance to a market still digesting macro pressure, ETF flows, and shifting liquidity expectations.
The report also highlights stress among short-term holders, a segment that often drives faster market reactions. If short-term holder metrics remain below breakeven, the market can become more sensitive to negative news because recent buyers are sitting on unrealized losses.
In this context, the report points to the importance of Bitcoin’s move around the $64,000 zone. A defense of that area would suggest demand is still present, but a clean reclaim of the True Market Mean would carry a different implication—active-investor cost basis would no longer be acting as overhead pressure.
With Bitcoin positioned in a middle zone, the report describes two competing interpretations. Trading at a discount to the True Market Mean can attract value-focused buyers who view the market as oversold versus active investor cost basis. At the same time, failure to reclaim the model keeps the bearish-regime argument in play.
For now, the practical takeaway is that Bitcoin bulls need more than a relief bounce. They need sufficient demand to push price back toward higher cost-basis levels and sustain it there. Until that happens, Glassnode’s data suggests the market is still healing rather than clearly entering a new expansion phase.
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