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Bitcoin Retail Traders Scarce as BTC Hits Highs

July 13, 2025Updated:July 13, 2025No Comments3 Mins Read
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Bitcoin has reached consecutive file highs this week, but retail traders appear reluctant to leap again into the market, in keeping with a crypto researcher.

Nevertheless, demand for spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) is surging, with Thursday and Friday recording each day inflows of over $1 billion, the primary time this has occurred on two consecutive days.

Bitcoin leg up “pushed by establishments”

Bitwise head of analysis André Dragosch mentioned in an X put up on Friday, “Bitcoin is at new all-time highs however retail is nearly nowhere to be discovered,” pointing to the shortage of Google search curiosity in “Bitcoin” regardless of the asset setting consecutive all-time highs this week.

Bitcoin Retail Traders Scarce as BTC Hits Highs
Bitwise factors out that Google search curiosity for Bitcoin shouldn’t be following the asset’s value motion. Supply: André Dragosch

“Newest leg up is usually pushed by establishments,” Dragosch mentioned.

Google world search curiosity for the time period “Bitcoin” elevated by 8% from June 29–July 5 to July 6–12, coinciding with Bitcoin breaking its earlier all-time excessive of $111,970 on Wednesday, and climbing additional to $118,780 by Friday, in keeping with Google Tendencies and CoinMarketCap information.

Google world search curiosity for “Bitcoin” is down 60% since November. Supply: Google Tendencies

Nevertheless, Bitcoin search curiosity is 60% decrease than the week of Nov. 10–16, 2024, the week after Donald Trump received the US presidential election. 

That interval was adopted by a month-long rally that propelled Bitcoin to succeed in $100,000 for the primary time ever on Dec. 5.

Bitcoiners say retail thinks they “missed the boat”

Some Bitcoin proponents are speculating that retail traders might understand the present value of Bitcoin as too excessive to enter the market.

Bitcoin commentator Lindsay Stamp mentioned, “I believe quite a lot of retail people discover out the value of one Bitcoin is 117k and assume, nahhh I missed the boat and don’t even give it a second thought.”

Echoing the same sentiment, the Bitcoin Matrix podcast host Cedric Youngelman mentioned in an X put up on Saturday, “At what Bitcoin value do you assume retail wakes up?” I’ll go first. I don’t assume they’re coming for a very long time.” 

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Supply: Will Clemente

Bitcoin onchain analyst Willy Woo mentioned Bitcoin’s uptrend is much from over. “This run has loads of legs left in it,” Woo mentioned in an X put up on Saturday.

Associated: Bitcoin value anticipated to speed up if each day shut above $113K is secured

In the meantime, spot Bitcoin ETFs had a robust buying and selling week, with $2.72 billion inflows over the 5 days, in keeping with Farside information.

Cointelegraph just lately reported on July 5 that if the top holder of a BTC ETF share is a retail consumer, it could be time to rethink how onchain information is interpreted, as this might signify the truth of retail Bitcoin demand.

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