Bitcoin realized price today ← is the bottom in?
Realized price is the realized cap divided by circulating supply: the average price at which every bitcoin last moved on-chain. It is the market's aggregate cost basis.
How it's computed
Price ÷ MVRV, using Coin Metrics market and realized cap data since 2010. The signal fires while the daily close is below the realized price (MVRV under 1).
Reading it
Price closed below its realized price at the 2015, 2018-19 and 2022 lows and for six days in March 2020. It did not in 2026; the June low stayed about 11% above the cost basis.
At past bottoms
| Jan 2015 | FIRED |
| Dec 2018 | FIRED |
| Mar 2020 | FIRED |
| Nov 2022 | FIRED |
| Jun 2026 | missed |
Within 30 days of each cycle's lowest daily close.
Questions
Why does realized price act as support?
Below it the average holder is at a loss, and history shows that state resolves within months: either sellers are exhausted or a new cycle begins.
How is realized price different from the 200-week MA?
The 200-week MA is a price average over time; realized price is a volume-weighted cost basis from the blockchain itself. They tend to sit close together at bottoms.