{"id":32754,"date":"2022-10-22T03:35:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T03:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=32754"},"modified":"2022-10-22T03:35:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T03:35:47","slug":"litecoins-whale-transactions-spike-but-what-could-it-mean-for-retailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=32754","title":{"rendered":"Litecoin&#8217;s whale transactions spike, but what could it mean for retailers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The week so far has been marked by a significant spike in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/predictions\/litecoin-price-prediction\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"noopener\">Litecoin\u2019s [LTC]<\/a> address activity and whale transactions, according to the data from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/santimentfeed\/status\/1583209265241546755?s=46&amp;t=eW72QTKBWsp2PDZubbrdNQ\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">Santiment<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whale transactions valued above $1 million clinched their highest daily count so far this year during the trading session of 20 October. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#x26a1;&#xfe0f; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Litecoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">#Litecoin<\/a> has been quietly under the radar in 2022, but address activity &amp; whale transactions have exploded this week. Particularly with $1m+ valued transactions on the network, the timing of these spikes happened just as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24LTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">$LTC<\/a> began rising vs. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">$BTC<\/a>. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jtQYW7mHuP\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/jtQYW7mHuP<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/brIzjj6lFF\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/brIzjj6lFF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Santiment (@santimentfeed) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/santimentfeed\/status\/1583209265241546755?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">October 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the analytics firm, the surge in daily active address count and whale transactions occurred when the price of LTC started to rise against that of the leading coin Bitcoin [BTC].\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>LTC in the last 24 hours<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Per data from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/currencies\/litecoin\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">CoinMarketCap<\/a>, LTC traded at $51.00 at the time of writing. Its price had declined by 1.10% in the last 24 hours. With just $274 million total in trading volume, its trading volume was down 3.13% within the same period.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At its current price, the asset traded at its November 2020 level. It was also 87.64% far from its all-time high of $412.96, which it recorded on 10 May 2021. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On a year-to-date basis, the price of the #20 largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization has fallen by 65%.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the persistent fall in the price of LTC in the past few weeks, buying pressure had weakened on a daily chart. As a result, at the time of writing, the asset\u2019s Relative Strength Index (RSI) was positioned in a downtrend at 41. It fell from a high of 62 on 5 October.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Toeing a similar path of decline, LTC\u2019s Money Flow Index has spent the past few weeks dropping. The MFI was pegged at 41, beneath the 50-neutral region at press time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Furthermore, the dynamic line (green) of the asset\u2019s Chaikin Money Flow (CMF) rested below the center line. Posting a negative -0.04. It indicated that selling pressure was growing, at the time of writing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_265602\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LTCUSDT_2022-10-21_09-07-08.png\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-265602\" class=\"wp-image-265602 size-full\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LTCUSDT_2022-10-21_09-07-08.png 2560w, https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LTCUSDT_2022-10-21_09-07-08-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LTCUSDT_2022-10-21_09-07-08-1024x475.png 1024w, https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LTCUSDT_2022-10-21_09-07-08-768x356.png 768w, https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LTCUSDT_2022-10-21_09-07-08-1536x712.png 1536w, https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LTCUSDT_2022-10-21_09-07-08-2048x950.png 2048w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" src=\"https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LTCUSDT_2022-10-21_09-07-08.png\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-265602\" class=\"wp-image-265602 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LTCUSDT_2022-10-21_09-07-08.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LTCUSDT_2022-10-21_09-07-08.png 2560w, https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LTCUSDT_2022-10-21_09-07-08-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LTCUSDT_2022-10-21_09-07-08-1024x475.png 1024w, https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LTCUSDT_2022-10-21_09-07-08-768x356.png 768w, https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LTCUSDT_2022-10-21_09-07-08-1536x712.png 1536w, https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LTCUSDT_2022-10-21_09-07-08-2048x950.png 2048w\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-265602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: TradingView<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3><strong>Worrying stats<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The unending decline in LTC\u2019s price has plunged many of its holders into losses, data from Santiment revealed. Since April, LTC\u2019s market-value-to-realized-value (MVRV) has been situated below the center line. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As prices fell, the ratio of LTC holders in loss and those that held at a profit continued to widen. As of this writing, its MVRV ratio was -44.11%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to its unprofitability, a large amount of LTC tokens have laid dormant in wallet addresses since July\u2019s end. The position of the asset\u2019s Mean Coin Age confirmed this. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A continued stretch in this metric would mean inactivity for a chunk of the asset, thus making it hard for the price of the coin to climb\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As for investors\u2019 bias, this was negative at press time.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_265604\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Litecoin-LTC-09.16.05-21-Oct-2022.png\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-265604\" class=\"wp-image-265604 size-full\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Litecoin-LTC-09.16.05-21-Oct-2022.png 2560w, https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Litecoin-LTC-09.16.05-21-Oct-2022-300x102.png 300w, https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Litecoin-LTC-09.16.05-21-Oct-2022-1024x347.png 1024w, https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Litecoin-LTC-09.16.05-21-Oct-2022-768x260.png 768w, https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Litecoin-LTC-09.16.05-21-Oct-2022-1536x520.png 1536w, https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Litecoin-LTC-09.16.05-21-Oct-2022-2048x693.png 2048w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" src=\"https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Litecoin-LTC-09.16.05-21-Oct-2022.png\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-265604\" class=\"wp-image-265604 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Litecoin-LTC-09.16.05-21-Oct-2022.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Litecoin-LTC-09.16.05-21-Oct-2022.png 2560w, https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Litecoin-LTC-09.16.05-21-Oct-2022-300x102.png 300w, https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Litecoin-LTC-09.16.05-21-Oct-2022-1024x347.png 1024w, https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Litecoin-LTC-09.16.05-21-Oct-2022-768x260.png 768w, https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Litecoin-LTC-09.16.05-21-Oct-2022-1536x520.png 1536w, https:\/\/statics.ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Litecoin-LTC-09.16.05-21-Oct-2022-2048x693.png 2048w\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-265604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Santiment<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiXmh0dHBzOi8vYW1iY3J5cHRvLmNvbS9saXRlY29pbnMtd2hhbGUtdHJhbnNhY3Rpb25zLXNwaWtlLWJ1dC13aGF0LWNvdWxkLWl0LW1lYW4tZm9yLXJldGFpbGVycy_SAQA?oc=5\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The week so far has been marked by a significant spike in Litecoin\u2019s [LTC] address activity and whale transactions, according to the data from Santiment. Whale transactions valued above $1 million clinched their highest daily count so far this year during the trading session of 20 October. &#x26a1;&#xfe0f; #Litecoin has been quietly under the radar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[43],"tags":[3495,8896,1760,1766,2121],"class_list":["post-32754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-litecoin","tag-litecoins","tag-retailers","tag-spike","tag-transactions","tag-whale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/adrien-olichon-Ou2skZXuNIU-unsplash-1-1000x600.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32756,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32754\/revisions\/32756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}