Fifty Billion Dollars Went Into BTC And This Is The Result.
The numbers defy logic. We have tracked nearly $50 billion flowing directly into $BTC this year—ETFs alone vacuumed up $22 billion, and Saylor’s MicroStrategy added another $20 billion. Yet, the price action remains flat, even slightly negative year-to-date. This is the great institutional paradox of 2024.
If $50 billion of demand entered the market, where did the supply come from? The reality is that this massive absorption was necessary simply to maintain the current price structure. Long-term holders and miners have been relentless distributors, using the institutional bid as an exit liquidity event. Furthermore, much of the initial ETF inflow was offset by the massive, front-loaded selling pressure from the conversion of GBTC shares, which acted as a synthetic supply shock. The market is absorbing historic supply distribution while simultaneously setting a new baseline of institutional demand. Once this distribution cycle exhausts itself, the true effect of $BTC scarcity will become impossible to ignore.
This is not financial advice.
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