Septembers are terrible months. Historically speaking.
Take a look at this chart:
The chart above shows Bitcoin's monthly returns since 2013. And as you can see, BTC has been wildly bearish in September.
So much so, that the highest monthly gains Bitcoin has ever made in a September is 6.04% in 2016.
There is no shortage of bearish predictions on BTC. Especially now that September is here.
Bitcoin slid below $26,000 over the weekend, causing nearly $170 million in liquidations from Saturday, until Monday.
According to Binance, Bitcoin has also slid by 11% over the last 30 days, with Ethereum dropping similarly by 11.63% over the last month.
Both of these cryptocurrencies are showing red digits on hourly, daily and weekly timeframes, according to CoinMarketCap.
A good explanation for the recent decline in crypto prices overall may be the ongoing crackdown and legal struggles over crypto mining in China.
Another possibility is the insane decline in the Bitcoin network's difficulty, after hitting an ATH only two weeks ago.
In the long run, there are a few more bearish possibilities you should know about:
According to recent reports, Bitcoin and Ethereum's trading volumes were nothing to write home about for August.
There were a few disturbing reports in a recent tweet from Lars, the research director from The Block.
According to this tweet, in August, the combined adjusted on-chain volume for BTC and Ethereum fell by 6.3% to $176 billion.
In a data chart taken from The Block and attached to the tweet, the monthly volumes of BTC and Ethereum both decreased by 6.7% and 5.7%, respectively.
Lars, in another tweet, went ahead to say that the adjusted on-chain volume of stablecoins climbed by 6.8% to $520.9 billion and that this metric is down almost 35% from March's number.
If that wasn't enough, the report from Lars also shows that Ethereum's staking revenue fell by 7.5% to $130 million, while Bitcoin miner revenue fell by 6.8% to $805 million in August.
As secondary sales decreased, the monthly NFT marketplace volume on Ethereum fell by 8% to $391 million as shown below.
Other metrics like the legitimate CEX spot volume also decreased by 2.8% to $261.6 Billion, the lowest volume since October 2020.
Futures open interest also declined by 14% on BTC, and by 18% on Ethereum.
To cut a long story short, almost every on-chain metric on Bitcoin and Ethereum took massive beatings.
Even the CME open interest in Bitcoin's futures declined by several percentages, leading to a very important question:
What does September have in store for BTC and Ethereum?
If September hadn't been such a bearish month for crypto historically, it might have been easy to have some hope about BTC and Ethereum's futures during the month.
However, the reality is that September may not hold any promise for Bitcoin and Ethereum, and it may be best to keep one's fingers crossed.
At the time of writing, BTC is trading at $26,149. It is up by 1.03% over the last day and by 1.57% over the last week.
A typical sign of sideways action.
Ethereum on the other hand, is trading at $1,598 at the time of writing. The cryptocurrency is up by 0.33% over the last 24 hours and is down by 2.07% over the last seven days.
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