Derek Chu
On-Chain Analyst & Technical Analyst
On-chain data
Holder cohorts
Exchange flows
Technical analysis
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, and reads price structure alongside it — support and resistance, trend and volume — so the chart and the chain are checked against each other rather than one used to confirm the other: who is buying, who is selling, and at what cost basis — with the chain, not vibes, as the source of record.
24/7
his own full node, synced since 2019
6 yrs
building UTXO-level analysis pipelines
NEW
joined the Almanack July 2026
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 →