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The Bitcoin price had quite an interesting performance over the past week, 
cruising to a new high above the $79,000 high early on before crashing to as 
low as $75,500 on the last day of April. However, the premier cryptocurrency 
has had a somewhat bright start to May, hovering around the $78,000 level. 
While the subtle price action resurgence suggests improving market sentiment, 
on-chain data shows that current demand is still insufficient to fuel a full 
recovery for Bitcoin — and perhaps the rest of the crypto market. BTC Apparent 
Demand Improving, But Still Not Sufficient: Analyst In a recent Quicktake post 
on the CryptoQuant platform, pseudonymous analyst Darkfost stated that the 
underlying Bitcoin market demand has remained weak despite the price rebound 
over the past two months. According to the crypto pundit, there is no current 
evidence of a shift in the price regime, despite BTC rising by more than 30% 
from its cycle lows. Drawing inferences from the Apparent Demand metric, which 
measures demand by comparing the freshly mined BTC to the amount of unmoved 
coin in over a year, Darkfost reiterated that market appetite has remained 
weak. Indeed, the metric has seen some recovery — as has price — from the 
ghastly -89,000 BTC in early April. Related Reading: Bitcoin Renko Mari-Ashi 
Reveals Where The Bottom Lies And When The Rise Will Begin Again However, 
CryptoQuant data shared by the analyst shows that the apparent demand (30-day 
sum) is still negative at -44,700 BTC. Darkfost revealed that the Bitcoin 
Apparent Demand metric has been in the red all year, except for a brief period 
in February, when BTC mining activity saw a sharp decline. Darkfost explained 
in their Quicktake post: I am excluding the brief positive shift at the end of 
February, as it was not driven by a genuine increase in demand, but rather by 
a sharp drop in BTC issuance. This was mainly due to a significant decline in 
mining activity, particularly linked to severe weather conditions in the 
United States earlier in the year. The analyst noted that while the apparent 
demand trend shows signs of improvement over the past few weeks, market 
appetite needs to improve further to create the appropriate environment to 
support a sustainable Bitcoin price recovery. As seen in previous trends, the 
price of BTC is directly related to the Apparent Demand indicator. Hence, 
investors need to watch out for when the metric turns positive. Bitcoin Price 
At A Glance As of this writing, the price of BTC stands at around $78,334, 
reflecting an over 2% jump in the past 24 hours. Related Reading: Bitcoin On 
Morgan Stanley’s Balance Sheet? The Answer Is Getting Interesting Featured 
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Bitcoin Apparent Demand Remains Weak — What This Says About Price Recovery

Fewer derivative traders are placing new bets on Bitcoin right now. Open 
interest has barely moved — up just 1.50% to $55 billion — and more futures 
positions closed than opened in the past 24 hours. Volume dropped 21% to $30 
billion. The market is waiting. Related Reading: Bitcoin’s Path To $100K May 
Happen Before Anyone Understands Why: Analyst Sellers Have Had The Upper Hand 
For Over A Year The waiting may be approaching an end, according to on-chain 
data firm CryptoQuant. Analyst Moreno published findings showing Bitcoin is 
nearing a test of two key metrics that have defined its market structure since 
early 2024. How it responds to that test, reports indicate, could determine 
the direction of the next significant move. At the center of the analysis is 
the Short-Term Holder MVRV — a metric that measures whether recent buyers are 
sitting on gains or losses. Bitcoin Is Close to Flipping the Market Structure 
“A sustained reclaim of the Realized Price, paired with the MVRV stabilizing 
and trending above 1.0, would signal a structural regime change.” – By 
@MorenoDV_ pic.twitter.com/AsxsyFEyzi — CryptoQuant.com (@cryptoquant_com) May 
1, 2026 Since early 2024, it has printed a sequence of lower highs even as 
Bitcoin&#8217;s price climbed to new records. When BTC hit roughly $72,000 in March 
2024, the MVRV peaked above 1.4. By November 2024, Bitcoin pushed toward 
$106,000, but the metric failed to reach its previous high. The pattern 
repeated in July 2025, when Bitcoin hit around $120,000 — yet the MVRV 
continued lower, tracing out a clear descending trendline. That trendline has 
acted as a ceiling on every bounce since. The MVRV is now approaching that 
same ceiling again. Buyers Need To Reclaim A Key Cost Level At the same time, 
Bitcoin is closing in on the Short-Term Holder Realized Price — the average 
price at which recent buyers acquired their coins. This level matters because 
it splits the short-term holder base between profit and loss. When Bitcoin 
trades below it, recent buyers are underwater and more likely to sell into any 
rally. When it trades above, selling pressure eases. According to 
CryptoQuant&#8217;s analysis, a confirmed move above the Realized Price — paired 
with the MVRV holding above 1.0 — would mark a meaningful change in structure. 
It would signal that recent buyers are no longer a consistent drag on price, 
giving any upward move a stronger foundation. Failure to hold above that 
level, on the other hand, would leave the existing structure intact. Related 
Reading: US CLARITY Act Moves Closer To Law After Surprise Stablecoin Yield 
Update US Spot Buyers Are Still Sitting On The Sidelines Other data points to 
continued caution. The Coinbase Premium Index — which tracks the price 
difference between Coinbase and other exchanges, often used as a gauge of US 
institutional demand — sits at -0.018%. Negative readings suggest US spot 
buyers are not driving purchases. Bitcoin has recovered from earlier lows to 
briefly touch $79,000, but has since pulled back to around $77,120. Featured 
image from MetaAI, chart from TradingView

Bitcoin Could Be One Breakout Away From A Structural Shift: Analysts

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