Bitcoin institutions bought more BTC than miners added to the supply in the first week of 2026 as a classic BTC price bull signal began to repeat.
Bitcoin (BTC) buying is back in 2026 as institutions acquire more BTC per day than miners produce.
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Institutions are now “net buyers” of Bitcoin for eight days straight, a dedicated tracking metric reports.
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Sustained net buying has resulted in average BTC price upside of nearly 110% since 2020.
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Bitcoin is due a relief bounce after three months of losses.
Institutions buy 76% more BTC than miners add
The latest data from quantitative Bitcoin and digital asset fund Capriole Investments shows institutional buys beating mined supply by over 75%.
After a period of uncertainty over the new year that followed two months of demand breakdown, major corporate players are interested in BTC exposure again.
Capriole’s Net Institutional Buying metric, which includes purchases by corporate treasuries and the US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), has now recorded eight “green” days in a row.
This means that on each of those days, net institutional buying appetite was more than the BTC added to the supply by miners. On Monday, this “excess” demand totaled 76%.
“Institutions are once again net buyers of Bitcoin,” Capriole founder Charles Edwards commented in response to the data in a post on X.
Edwards revealed that historically, BTC/USD has seen significant gains in the period after institutional buying flips positive versus newly-mined supply.
Since 2020, the average increase has been 109%, with the previous flip sparking 41% upside.
BTC price due $100,000 comeback in January
Continuing, network economist Timothy Peterson added to the optimistic takes on BTC price performance going forward.
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History, he agreed, is on the bulls’ side after a near 40% drawdown against October’s $126,200 all-time highs.
“History favors a return above $100,000 for Bitcoin this month. Bitcoin has had 3 consecutive months of declines. That has only happened 9 times since 2015,” Peterson wrote on X Tuesday.
“What happens next? 1 month later, Bitcoin was positive 67% of the time. However, the 3 negative instances were all in 2018 and marked the end of that bear market.”
Peterson calculated a smaller average gain as a result of the phenomenon, coming in at 15%.
BTC/USD returned to $94,000 after Monday’s Wall Street open, going on to see its highest levels since mid-November.
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