The latest findings by Santiment, published in Cointelegraph Consulting’s biweekly newsletter, suggest that regular users are returning to Ethereum in response to lower transaction fees.
Several influential Ethereum cohorts — including miners and some of Ethereum’s largest non-exchange addresses — have been showing signs of ongoing accumulation and increased confidence in the coin’s long-term potential.
After a period of redistribution and short-term selloffs by Ethereum’s block creators throughout August, the combined balance of Ethereum mining pools is once again on the rise, growing by 50,000 ETH (~$18,200,000 at the time of writing) over the last 30 days.
In the past, major drop-offs in the collective holdings of Ethereum miners frequently coincided with rising sell-side pressure and price regression, while periods of miner accumulation often boded well for Ethereum’s price in the near term.