
The SOPR, that arcane metric of market sentiment, compares the price at which coins were last moved to their current expenditure. When it dips below 1, as it has done with alarming frequency, it signals that investors are selling at a loss-a financial harakiri, if you will. Since March 11, RugaResearch reports, the Bitcoin LTH SOPR has breached the 0.80 mark seven times, with such ignominious lows as 0.639 and 0.753. These long-term holders, once the backbone of the market, are now realizing losses equivalent to 25% of their cost basis. A spectacle, indeed, of fiscal despair.