On Sunday, May 23, Bitcoin (BTC) and the overall crypto market tanked following China’s crackdown on Bitcoin miners and traders. Well, owing to new regulatory policies, a lot of Chinese miners have considered shifting their base to Europe or North America.

Seeing a major opportunity here, business tycoon Elon Musk has jumped in while recently tweeting that he’s been talking to a lot of miners in North America for tapping into the renewable energy use for Bitcoin mining.

Recently, Elon Musk has been much vocal about the high energy usage associated with Bitcoin mining and transactions. Even Tesla decided to drop Bitcoin payments setting up the crypto market in a frenzy. However, it looks like Musk sees a great opportunity here in the ‘crypto and renewables’ market.

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor took the lead in hosting the meeting between Musk and North American Bitcoin miners. Saylor tweeted:

“Yesterday I was pleased to host a meeting between @elonmusk & the leading Bitcoin miners in North America. The miners have agreed to form the Bitcoin Mining Council to promote energy usage transparency & accelerate sustainability initiatives worldwide”.

Standardizing Energy Reporting for Bitcoin Mining
Since the Bitcoin mining energy consumption is the new heated debate in the market, industry players are putting efforts to bring a solution to it. As Michael Saylor, executives from some of the biggest Bitcoin mining associations joined the meeting with Musk.

This includes big names like Marathon Digital Holdings, Riot Blockchain, Argo Blockchain, Core Scientific, Hive Blockchain, Hut 8 Mining, and others. All these players decided to form an organization to standardize energy reporting associated with crypto mining.

Besides, these players will work together to pursue the industry ESG goals along with making efforts to educate the crypto-mining marketplace.

North American miners have the biggest opportunity hereafter China’s crackdown on Bitcoin miners recently. Will North America become the new dominant player to control a majority of the Bitcoin hashrate?

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Cryptocurrency exchange outflows have over the last few days, after the prices of most cryptocurrencies plunged in a market crash that saw the total market capitalization of the space drop from $2.2 trillion to $1.5 trillion. On-chain analyst Willy Woo has pointed out user growth on the network suggests the bull market hasn’t been affected.

Data shared by the analyst revealed user growth on the BTC network has surged as “no-coiners” were taking advantage of the price drop to buy BTC. Per his words, the bull market is “very much intact.”

He added that BTC’s user count has “roughly doubled every year since inception a dozen years ago,” and the peak for this year is expected to “end at levels MUCH higher than the 2017 peak.” This, he implied, suggests the market is “just warming up.”

Seemingly suggesting a recovery is coming, data from blockchain analytics firm Glassnode shows massive bitcoin outflows were seen as prices started dropping and kept on increasing steadily. The shared data seemingly suggests that some HODLers bought the dip, and moved the funds to wallets under their control to hold for a longer period.

The recent cryptocurrency market crash started shortly after Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed in an announcement that the electric car maker would no longer accept bitcoin payments over environmental concerns.

The market was seemingly over-leveraged, as prices dropped triggered a wave of liquidations that put further pressure on prices. As the market turmoil was unfolding three major payment associations in China – the National Internet Finance Association of China, the China Banking Association, and the Payment and Clearing Association of China – reaffirmed their commitment to upholding regulations from 2017 preventing financial institutions from dealing with cryptoassets.

Over the last seven days, the price of bitcoin plunged from around $45,000 to a $32,000 low before it started recovering. CryptoCompare data shows the flagship cryptocurrency is now trading at $37,600 and is up 11% over the last 24-hour period.

Glassnode’s data shows that the last time exchange outflows for the cryptocurrency surged was in March of last year, when bitcoin’s price plunged by nearly 50% in 24 hours after most major U.S. equity indices entered bear market territory and the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 breakout a pandemic.

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The prices on the Bitcoin chart reflect a struggling Bitcoin, one that has been at the mercy of the decision of a large institution: Tesla. Bitcoin seemed to be gearing up for a retest at $60,000 before the bear market pulled the price back to as low as $35,000 as of yesterday.

Although at press time, Bitcoin is correcting losses, it has done little to convince skeptics that the asset is in a safe zone. While this is the part of the market that is most visible to onlookers and even some market participants, new on-chain data presents us with many reasons why there’s more than meets the eyes.

The panic selling is massive, but long-term Bitcoin holders are committed
Last week, the market recorded liquidations of over $2 billion long positions. This was of course reflected in the 30% drop in Bitcoin’s price. However, a look at on-chain data shows that there’s more to the story than what the charts reflect.

Yes, there is a major market selloff, but these sales are being made by impressionable new entrants who are easily influenced by the FUD. As newbies continue to sell and sustain losses, old hands remain firm, ignoring the bear trend, which they know to be temporary. As Glassnode writes in its weekly on-chain report:

“Newer market entrants have panic sold and realised significant losses on their coins. A total of 1.1M addresses have spent all coins they held during this correction, again providing evidence that panic selling is currently underway.”

Has Bitcoin hit the top?
Tales have it that Bitcoin has reached the top and that the bull run has run its course. But it might be too quick to close the curtains on the bullish cycle as on-chain data yet again reveals why the market, in comparison to historical data, still has a long way to go before the bulls call it a day. Glassnode notes that although last week saw Bitcoin make a sharp correction, it is nothing new when we flip the pages back to 2017.

“The current correction is now over 28% below the $63.6k ATH set on 13-April. This is the deepest correction of the current bull market, however it is consistent with five major pull-backs during the 2017 bull.” — Glassnode.

While the 2017 bull market ran for a full year, the 2021 bull market has only been on for about 200 days, meaning that Bitcoin still potentially has 165 days (which is over 5 more months) to move in green.

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It’s been a difficult few days for Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, with BTC falling from the $57,000-level on the 11th to $39,300 at press time.

What precipitated such a correction? Well, the overwhelming factor in everyone’s mind can be summed up by one man – Elon Musk. While DOGE remains his favorite, Bitcoin seems to have lost his favor, with Tesla announcing the suspension of Bitcoin payments recently. Understandably, BTC dropped on the charts on the back of the same. However, Musk wasn’t done yet.

A few days later, the exec seemingly implied that Tesla has sold or might sell all its BTC holdings. While Musk was quick to clarify later that the company has not sold any of its Bitcoin, the damage was already done.

Needless to say, everyone’s mad at Musk. However, what the aforementioned corrections also proved was that while developments like these have a significant short-term impact on the price performance of cryptos, the long-term bull market structure remains intact. This was the finding made by William Clemente III in a recent blog post.

Most commentaries on the impact of Musk’s tweet focused on the price charts and the fact that exchanges saw a sharp hike in inbound transfers (With transfers onto exchanges signaling assumed to be preceding a selling action most of the time). However, that’s surface information. What about the long-term? Has BTC’s bull run finally come to a halt, or will it consolidate before climbing once again?

According to the aforementioned report, it might just be the latter, with some pretty significant on-chain metrics pointing to the same as well.

Consider this – The funding rates, by and large, “haven’t gone negative in aggregate,” despite the fact that they did fall below zero on the likes of Kraken, FTX, and OKEx. According to the analyst,

“Funding rates have gone negative and marked the local bottom of every correction over the last few months.”

While not in the negative zone, press time funding rates do suggest that a bottom might finally be in. Ergo, this might just be an opportunity to buy.

The SOPR is worth looking at as well. At the time of writing, the short-term holder SOPR had fallen deep into the oversold zone, with the same dipping to levels unseen this bull run. What this finding seemed to suggest was that this might be the biggest reset of the entire bull run so far.

The latest corrections also shared a lot of similarities with the corrections back in September 2017. At the time, these corrections were followed by Bitcoin climbing to an ATH of just under $20,000. Hence, there is an argument to be made for the prediction that BTC might only go north from here onwards.

What’s more, according to the analyst, Bitcoin’s weekly RSI is now approaching a key trendline that “served as support and market a reversal for the two largest corrections of the 2017 bull run.” Last week’s price candle was also found to be sitting close to the cryptocurrency’s 21-week moving average, a level that has long served as support. Therefore, a reversal can be expected soon as well.

So yes, Bitcoin’s bull market remains intact and no, this isn’t going to be the 90% price crash some expected it to be. Did Musk’s tweets have an impact? Yes. But, the fact that it did shouldn’t even come as a surprise. After all, Bitcoin and the larger cryptocurrency market were happy to move north on the back of the Tesla CEO’s positive tweets. It’s only fair that BTC would move in the opposite direction on the back of adversarial news too.

Bitcoin isn’t and should not be an instrument of Elon Musk’s shitposting tirades. And the fact that despite its long-term strength Bitcoin’s short-term movement was dictated by the whims of one man is “embarrassing.”

Arca’s Jeff Dorman put it best when he claimed that the bulk of the media had a choice to make – “to stick with the tried and true narrative of the past 10+ years, or to make a quick buck off of Elon Musk – they chose the latter, and these actions have consequences.”

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