post<\/a> on X (formerly Twitter) on Dec. 13, Philip Swift, creator of statistics resource Look Into Bitcoin, showed profit-taking surging as BTC\/USD hit its latest 19-month highs.<\/p>\nHe flagged the Value Days Destroyed (VDD) Multiple metric, which multiplies Coin Days Destroyed by the current BTC price and tha on Dec. 11 hit its highest level since May 2021.<\/p>\n
\u201cValue Days Destroyed has now reached levels seen at previous Early Bull local highs as some HODL’ers take profit,\u201d part of commentary stated.<\/p>\n
VDD seeks to quantify Bitcoin selling activity at a given price point based on the length of time at which the newly-reactivated supply was previously dormant. <\/p>\n
As Cointelegraph reported, recent selling has been driven by short-term holders, or STHs \u2014 the more speculative cohorts among the Bitcoin investor base.<\/p>\n