Will Bitcoin's Price Go Up Again? Yes, According to On-Chain Analytics - Ep.244

Willy Woo, on-chain Bitcoin analyst and writer of the Bitcoin Forecast, a market intelligence newsletter, and Rafael Schultze-Kraft, co-founder and CTO of Glassnode, discuss Bitcoin and what the on-chain metrics tell us about the price. Here to discuss is. Episode highlights:
what factors pushed the price of BTC down in May why Elon’s Twitter account hold so much sway over the market why Willy believes Bitcoin is good for renewable energy who sold during the last month which type of BTC investors stopped purchasing in Feb/March what trends Willy and Rafael have noticed from coins moving to/from exchanges their thoughts on exchange-traded products, like GBTC and Canadian ETFs how derivatives trading has played a role in Bitcoin’s price why stablecoins were trading above their peg in the months leading up to the Coinbase direct listing how Willy values Bitcoin (specifically using NVT ratio) whether the trend of corporate treasuries investing in Bitcoin will continue how they expect Ethereum's adoption of a deflationary monetary policy to impact the price of Bitcoin when the market could turn bullish once again and predictions for the rest of the year
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Episode Links

Willy Woo
Twitter: https://twitter.com/woonomic Substack: https://willywoo.substack.com/ Charts: http://charts.woobull.com/
Rafael Schultze-Kraft
Twitter: https://twitter.com/n3ocortex  Glassnode Blog: https://insights.glassnode.com/author/rafael/ Medium (no posts in 2021): https://medium.com/@neocortex
Glassnode
Website: https://glassnode.com/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/glassnode  Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/glassnode
Willy on BTC trends:
NVT 2021 re-hash: https://twitter.com/woonomic/status/1399644889596370950  User growth on BTC network: https://twitter.com/woonomic/status/1396716391940575232  Exchange flows are bullish: https://twitter.com/woonomic/status/1395350421187690500  The movement to strong holders is unprecedented: https://twitter.com/woonomic/status/1391209800252358658  BTC undervaluation: https://twitter.com/woonomic/status/1389145220432859144
Rafael on BTC trends:
Investors becoming fearful: https://twitter.com/n3ocortex/status/1394922200923312132 Bear market?: https://twitter.com/n3ocortex/status/1394312942678679559 Why on-chain exchange metrics are difficult to analyze: https://insights.glassnode.com/exchange-metrics/  BTC ownership is not highly concentrated: https://insights.glassnode.com/bitcoin-supply-distribution/  BTC illiquidity: https://insights.glassnode.com/bitcoin-liquid-supply/
Glassnode on BTC trends:
May 31 recap: https://insights.glassnode.com/the-week-on-chain-week-22-2021/  May 24 recap: https://insights.glassnode.com/the-week-on-chain-week-21-2021/  December buyers approaching cost basis: https://twitter.com/glassnode/status/1399757635512066052  Battle of Bulls vs. Bears: https://twitter.com/glassnode/status/1399231089764360192  Grayscale discount: https://twitter.com/glassnode/status/1397059742019686400 Deleveraging futures market: https://twitter.com/glassnode/status/1395771367958581251