Bitcoin Bottom-Fishing Indicators Collectively Fail, $45K May Be Final Support Line

Bitcoin reversed course again after eight consecutive daily gains, continuing to decline from $76,000 and currently trading at $69,200. For players eager to bottom-fish, the biggest confusion is: how did those indicators that never failed before suddenly stop working?

The Ahr999 index has been lingering in the bottom-fishing zone below 0.45 for nearly 50 days. In the past, this would have been a time to enter with eyes closed, yet the market kept falling anyway. The MVRV Z-Score hasn't fared better either—previously, touching negative values signaled a golden opportunity, but this cycle's low only reached +0.26, and the so-called "green zone" never appeared. The STH-SOPR staying below 1 has set a record for the longest duration since October last year, displaying typical bear market characteristics, yet there's no sign of reversal.

What's the problem? To put it plainly, Bitcoin's pricing logic has changed. After the spot ETF approval, institutional holdings, derivatives arbitrage, exchange internal settlement, and even U.S. macro monetary policy become the dominant forces controlling prices. Those traditional indicators based on on-chain address behavior have had their foundational assumptions completely shattered. The MVRV Z-Score's denominator is artificially inflated by massive ETF holdings; Ahr999's mean reversion logic appears powerless before liquidity contraction; SOPR sees no true panic capitulation because long-term holders' unrealized gains are too substantial.

So what should we look at now? The industry is turning its attention to several indicators more aligned with current market conditions.

The CVDD model, developed by analyst Willy Woo, tracks Bitcoin's cumulative holding weights across different price ranges, constructing a "historic iron bottom" curve that has never been breached. In December 2018 and November 2022, the market approached this line twice and reversed both times. Currently, CVDD shows the iron bottom around $45,000.

The NUPL indicator measures net unrealized profit/loss across the network; falling into negative territory typically indicates fear or capitulation, a potential bottom signal. The last time this occurred was June 2022 to January 2023. Currently, this value hovers around 0.2, suggesting chip cleaning remains incomplete.

Stablecoin exchange net inflows may be the most direct leading indicator—price rebounds without stablecoin return flows are merely leverage-driven technical bounces. USDT and USDC are currently experiencing continued outflows, indicating we're still some distance from a true bottom.

综合来看，taking a comprehensive view, the market may be in an awkward stage: valuation bottoms have emerged, but capital bottoms and sentiment bottoms haven't arrived yet. What needs watching next is whether the $45,000 iron bottom line on CVDD can hold and when stablecoin inflows resume.

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