Derek Chu

Derek reads the chain the way the markets desk reads the tape: every claim traced to a transaction, address cluster, or cohort chart you can verify. He has run his own full node and UTXO-level analysis pipeline since 2019, and builds the on-chain datasets behind our coverage.

A former quant developer at a market-making firm, he joined Bitcoin Almanack in 2026 to cover the on-chain beat: who is buying, who is selling, and at what cost basis — with the chain, not vibes, as the source of record.

HOW I REVIEW

Every on-chain claim in my stories can be checked against the public blockchain, and I say which metric and which provider it came from. Cohort data is approximate by nature — clustering heuristics, not census — so I report trends, not decimal points, and I flag the error bars. No price predictions, ever. Our full methodology →

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The sellers are the faithful: two-thirds of exchange inflows are long-term holders taking a loss NEWS · JUL 2026

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DISCLOSURES

Derek holds a disclosed long-term bitcoin position in cold storage and does not trade around his own coverage. Reviews may contain affiliate links, which never affect scores. Some drafts are prepared with AI assistance and are fact-checked and edited by the author before publishing.

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