On-chain data says Bitcoin price at $60k is cheap, but buyers are still nervous

Last night, Bitcoin price was trading at $59,537, down through the $60,000 level that had been the market's line in the sand and nearly $18,000 below its late-May peak of $77,623.

Glassnode's on-chain data frames the move as a demand failure, with spot markets leading the selling, ETF investors pulling capital across six consecutive weeks of outflows, and a stronger dollar and rising yields keeping buyers on the sidelines.

As of press time, Bitcoin has recovered to around $61,600.

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What drove the break

Glassnode tracked Spot cumulative volume delta (CVD) falling faster than Futures CVD in the days before the break, with open interest staying subdued and funding staying positive even as price dropped, a profile consistent with real holders reducing exposure.

A leverage flush can reverse once liquidations drain the system. Spot-driven selling is harder to clear because holders can keep reducing exposure until conviction buyers absorb the supply.

US spot Bitcoin ETF net flows averaged nearly negative $300 million per day at the worst of the June drawdown, and six consecutive weeks of outflows have now pulled roughly $6 billion from the products.

That pace includes the largest single-day redemption of 2026, when BlackRock's IBIT alone shed $388 million on June 2. This correction pushed ETF holders toward the exits, reversing the dip-buying pattern that had cushioned previous drawdowns.

A strong US jobs report in early June led money markets to fully price a Fed rate hike by year-end, a reversal from the rate cuts markets had previously expected.

Two-year Treasury yields jumped 12 basis points to 4.16%, the dollar rose to a one-year high, the Nasdaq 100 dropped roughly 5% in a single session, and a chipmaker gauge fell 10%, pulling Bitcoin lower alongside the broader risk-off trade.

That pressure has compounded through June, with the dollar index climbing to 101.15 on June 23 and BTC now breaking through $60,000 as the accumulated weight of weak flows and hostile macro conditions takes hold.

Glassnode's macro section flagged the dollar's return above its 200-day moving average as a headwind for BTC, noting Bitcoin was trading well below its own 200-day average while equities had recovered above theirs.

What Glassnode sees in the data

Glassnode places Bitcoin's True Market Mean at $77,000, putting current prices roughly 23% below that level.

Glassnode uses the True Market Mean as the threshold separating broader bull and bear market regimes, which means Bitcoin has moved deep into what it describes as structural bear territory: discounted relative to the average cost basis of active investors and sitting within a weak demand regime at the same time.

The 90-day average net realized profit/loss is around-$205 million per day, confirming sustained loss realization across the market.

That loss-dominant environment pulls Bitcoin's center of gravity toward the Realized Price near $53,400, well below the True Market Mean at $77,000, making the downside reference point the more operative level for now.

The short-term holder cost basis has fallen to $71,400, which Glassnode reads as a constructive early step: newer buyers are accumulating below the broader cyclical mean for the first time, repricing the average entry point of recent participants downward.

Glassnode notes that Coinbase Spot CVD has returned to positive territory while Binance's has held negative, pointing to US institutional buyers stepping in at the margin while offshore traders hold back.

The overhead problem

The clearest structural obstacle to any recovery is a dense cluster of short-term holder supply between $66,800 and $70,700.

These are recent buyers now sitting underwater, and Glassnode's data shows they represent a meaningful concentration of potential sellers into any rally back toward their breakeven levels.

The real recovery test is whether BTC can absorb that overhead supply between $66,800 and $70,700 without rolling over.

Above that zone, the short-term holder's cost basis at $71,400 becomes the next checkpoint. A move back to that level would test whether buyers who accumulated during the drawdown can hold their positions against sellers who bought earlier and are now trying to exit near breakeven.

Above $71,400, the True Market Mean at $77,000 is the regime threshold, the level at which Glassnode's structural bear reading would require revision.

Glassnode's data show a 25-delta skew rebuilt across maturities, with the one-week skew climbing from around 12% to 24% and the one-month skew rising from roughly 14% to 23%, putting puts at a meaningful premium to comparable calls.

Traders are paying to protect against another leg lower, and that posture reflects the same structural reality as the on-chain data: the market has found value at current prices, with buyer conviction still too thin to act on it.

Two paths from here

If ETF flows stabilize and the Coinbase buying Glassnode identified broadens into the offshore venues still running negative CVD, Bitcoin has the components of a recovery.

A reclaim of the $66,800 to $70,700 supply zone would show buyers are strong enough to absorb the most concentrated pool of overhead sellers. A sustained move above $71,400 would give stronger confirmation that drawdown buyers are holding rather than flipping into the first relief bounce.

June 23 saw $39.2 million in net ETF inflows, the first positive day in weeks, led by ARKB and MSBT, offering an early data point that the outflow pace may be slowing. One day resolves nothing, but it is the right kind of data point to track.

If spot selling persists and ETF redemptions resume, the on-chain gravity toward the Realized Price near $53,400 takes over.

Bitcoin has traded cheaply across every major Glassnode valuation metric for weeks, yet the market has not attracted enough buyers to act on it. Realized losses need to fade, and the ETF channel needs to flip from drag to support before that discount becomes a recovery.

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