The media revealed a new metric that could portend a drop in bitcoin

ByteTree analytic startup has developed an indicator to assess miners' confidence in market growth. If miners sell more than they mine, then the value of the MRI is above 100%. If vice versa - below. Some analysts believe that the indicator is able to portend market movement.

ByteTree explains that MRI below 100% speaks ofthe uncertainty of miners that the market will withstand massive sales. If the indicator is above 100%, this supposedly suggests the opposite - the market is strong enough and absorbs any sales volume.

The head of the company Charlie Morris said that this is confirmed historically.

In January, MRI fell to 79% - the lowestindicator for the last two years. This allegedly spoke in favor of the formation of a bull trap in the market. Already in mid-February, the price of the first cryptocurrency began to decline.

At the end of January, miners mined 53,955 BTC, and only 42,451 BTC were sent to exchanges. This is more than a quarter of all bitcoins sent to exchanges that month.

Mined bitcoins (in blue) versus those sent to exchanges (in yellow), CoinDesk data

The share received by the bitcoin exchanges by the source of the sender, CoinDesk data

According to Poolin, bitcoin mining on such popular ASIC miners as AntMiner S9 and Avalon 851, is now on the verge of profitability.

Miners focus on the medium andlong-term periods, including including halving in May. Not only the historical maximum of the hash of the network, but also the update of the line of devices from Bitmain and Whatsminer indicates the preservation of optimism.