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On-Chain Note: SpaceX’s $88 Wallet Ping Lands as LTH Loss Share Hits 43%

BTC trades at $62,449.99 as long-term holder realized losses hit four-year highs and SpaceX's dormant treasury shows its first movement in six months.

Aisha Rahman · ·upd ·2 min read
On-Chain Note: SpaceX’s $88 Wallet Ping Lands as LTH Loss Share Hits 43%

BTC last printed $62,449.99, down 1.73% on 24-hour volume of $16.6 billion, per COINOTAG DATA. Perpetual positioning shows longs at 65.8% versus 34.2% shorts, funding at +0.0047% favoring longs, and open interest at $12.19 billion. The Fear & Greed Index reads 22.

Realized Losses Signal Capitulation Zone

The share of total realized losses coming from holders sitting on coins 155+ days has climbed from roughly 15% in early February to 43% currently — a sharp shift in the loss-realization profile. The 30-day moving average of realized losses recently hit approximately $280 million per day, the highest reading since December 2022.

BTC has now traded below the average acquisition cost of active investors for five straight months, a condition often labeled “deep value” that has historically preceded cycle lows. The market-wide realized price sits near $53,000, a level that has repeatedly acted as a bear-market floor. Technical structure shows resistance at $62,558, $63,787 and $67,369, with support at $61,894, $60,656 and $57,800; RSI(14) reads 45.8 in a downtrend, and COINOTAG’s model scores the $61,868 support at 70/100.

ETF and Options Flow Diverge

Spot Bitcoin ETF flows remain net negative, with daily volumes ranging $650 million to $950 million — roughly 80% below the October 2025 peak, which itself sat well under Bitcoin’s all-time high. Institutional demand has yet to stabilize across BTC or the broader alt complex.

Options positioning tells a split story: the put/call ratio has fallen to 0.56, the lowest print of 2026, implying roughly two calls per put. But 25-delta skew remains elevated, showing traders are still paying up for downside protection despite the bullish call skew.

SpaceX Wallet Activity Reopens a Custody Debate

Against this backdrop, SpaceX’s Bitcoin wallets logged their first outbound movement in six months — an $88 transfer between company-controlled addresses. It’s too small to be a liquidation signal on its own, and reported holdings remain unchanged at 18,712 BTC, but it lands on top of a pattern traders have been tracking since 2025.

In October 2025, SpaceX moved 2,495 BTC — then worth about $257 million — into two freshly created wallets after a long dormancy. In July 2025, roughly $300 million in BTC was routed to Coinbase Prime, a venue the company has used historically ahead of position changes. A May 21 S-1 filing separately revealed 10,427 BTC that on-chain trackers had never previously flagged, against a prior visible-balance estimate of just 8,285 BTC — meaning public data had captured under half the firm’s real position before disclosure. The stake’s value has eroded with the market, from an initially reported ~$1.45 billion to approximately $1.2 billion. Tesla’s separate 11,509 BTC treasury, by contrast, hasn’t moved since 2024.

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