The first nation to legally adopt bitcoin now owns 700 coins after a new purchase, updated the president of the country. This has become another “buy the dip” moment, as BTC’s price dropped to $45,000. El Salvador’s president – Nayib Bukele – took it to Twitter on September 20th to inform that the nation has...Read More
Cathie Wood has predicted that Bitcoin prices will rise tenfold to reach $500,000 in 5 years. The bold forecast came while the Ark Invest chief executive was speaking with CNBC anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin at the SALT fintech conference in New York on Sept. 13. She added that this prediction is dependent on companies and...Read More
Another Chinese province has decided to follow the example and halt cryptocurrency mining and trading. While this continues to be the ongoing trend coming from China this year, the price of bitcoin has not dumped this time, as it did during the previous set of adverse developments. One More Chinese Province Goes After Crypto The...Read More
The third-largest bitcoin wallet has been busy buying the dip. During the current market downturn, the whale entity added almost 500 BTC to its stash. The mysterious third-largest Bitcoin whale bought 490 BTC when it was exchanging hands at around $46,800 in a transaction with a face value of $23 million. WhaleAlert reported that it...Read More
The CEO of blockchain forensics firm Chainalysis is optimistic that the bitcoin price will rise above $100,000 before the end of 2021. $100k by December 2021 In a Bloomberg interview on Thursday (September 3rd, 2021), Michael Gronager, who is also the co-founder of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, asserted that bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market, in general,...Read More
This week saw Bitcoin’s price surging past $50,000 on a few occasions, while altcoins have been charting double-digit gains all along. Let’s start with BTC. The primary cryptocurrency is up about 7% over the past seven days, and it’s currently sitting above the coveted $50K mark. However, it took it a few attempts to go...Read More
Kevin Wadsworth – co-founder of the technical analysis company Northstar & Badcharts – opined that the current cryptocurrency bull market would “conclude before the end of the year” and bitcoin would reach a price of around $100K. The top executive also stated that the primary digital asset’s USD value might exceed $1 million in 2025....Read More
The mysterious BTC whale, who was recently frequently sending lots of coins to Coinbase, has changed the strategy on the largest cryptocurrency. On-chain data shows that they have accumulated more than 500 bitcoins on Thursday and Friday. Bitcoin Whale Back to Buying CryptoPotato has previously reported some of this particular whale’s behavior – whose Bitcoin...Read More
Australian detectives from the Criminal Proceeds Squad have seized a record-breaking haul of bitcoin worth nearly A$8.5 million (more than $6 million) in Victoria. Local media reported Friday that the seizure was the largest amount of cryptocurrency ever confiscated by police in Australia and was part of an investigation into online drug trafficking on the...Read More
On-chain analytics provider, Glassnode, has reported that Bitcoin exchange flows have returned to the dominance of outflows through August as investors withdraw the digital asset. It added that the market has transitioned through a number of phases of exchange flow dominance over the last year. The previous outflow dominance was last seen in late 2020,...Read More
According to ‘PlanB’, the brainchild behind the highly debated Bitcoin stock-to-flow model, the bull market is not over yet. In a tweet on August 18, the analyst posed an update of the model showing that target white line and on-chain pricing signals indicate that we are still in the middle of this cycle. The target...Read More
A few hours ago during early trading in Asia, Bitcoin prices tapped $47,200 according to Tradingview. It is the highest the asset has changed hands for since May 15. The move has built upon the momentum that began in late July when BTC broke out of its range-bound channel to the upside. At the time...Read More
There has been a fair bit of profit-taking since Bitcoin prices topped $42K over the weekend. The asset has declined 9% since then, and on-chain behavior can be analyzed to get a better outlook on overall market sentiment. Analytics provider Glassnode has been doing just that in its latest on-chain report. The key question is...Read More
Though the Justice Department declined to comment for the article, Bloomberg was able to report last week that the DOJ is investigating U.S. banks and the backers of popular stablecoin USDT. There is some ongoing speculation about how this might affect bitcoin’s price. What’s Supposedly Going on With Tether and the DOJ? The Justice Department...Read More
Bitcoin has initiated another leg up, resulting in charting a new two-month high of just over $42,000. Apart from Chainlink, most alternative coins trail behind, and BTC’s market dominance has increased to well above 48%. Bitcoin Taps a 2-Month High As reported earlier this week, bitcoin went on a tear after dabbling with the $33,000...Read More
Going through the recent week and touching the $40K mark, there are some promising signs in on-chain data that could lead to a further price recovery in the market. However, some metrics still make an immediate rally back to the all-time high a questionable probability. Let’s explore the bull and the bear case for Bitcoin’s...Read More
Bitcoin Bitcoin saw an impressive 20% price hike this week as it reached the $40K resistance level. The cryptocurrency penetrated above a descending wedge formation last Thursday and continued above the 20-day MA level last Friday. Since breaking the wedge, BTC surged higher inside an ascending price channel as it broke the 50-day MA level...Read More
BTC’s recent 9 daily candle streak to the upside has been very impressive. We have been tracking the third-largest BTC whale wallet and found interesting activity and signals. The whale entity, at one point, held over 116,841 BTC. Its current total BTC holdings stand at 113,841. The recent sales from this address since April 2021...Read More
After gaining $6,000 in a few days, bitcoin’s price has calmed around the coveted $40,000 mark. Some alternative coins have outperformed their leader in the past 24 hours with notable gains from XRP, UNI, LINK, and SOL. SOL Rises 14% as ETH Touches $2.4K The past several days have been highly bullish for the alternative...Read More
According to data from on-chain analytics provider Glassnode, Bitcoin exchange balances have dropped to the lowest levels since the deep crypto winter of late 2018. Market analyst, Will Clemente, has observed the metric noting there have been two more large outflows over the past 24 hours. “Two massive outflows today: one worth 23,530 BTC this...Read More
Bitcoin is up by an impressive 22% this week as it currently battles with the $40K resistance area. As mentioned before, for the past two months, bitcoin’s price was trading between $30K and 42K. This week saw its highest point since June 15 ($41.3K according to BItstamp). The past week has been promising for BTC,...Read More
PlanB, a quantitative Bitcoin analyst and the creator of the popular stock-to-flow (S2F) model, is still very much bullish about the future of the leading cryptocurrency. The drop in bitcoin’s price within the last three months has raised many questions among crypto traders and analysts on whether or not the bull market is still intact....Read More
New data from Cambridge University shows that the geography of Bitcoin mining has drastically changed over the last six months in the wake of China’s massive crackdown. CNBC has been gathering the opinions of industry experts to get their take on the great miner migration and how it has altered the environmental impact of the...Read More
After another week of consolidation for bitcoin, with a drawdown to $31k, investors look to the weekend for a sigh of relief as the GBTC shares unlock continues. On-chain analysts detected an unusually large inflow of 41,000 BTC over a few transactions into Coinbase Pro Exchange, in just one hour. The immediate reaction from Crypto...Read More
It was a tough week price-wise in the cryptocurrency market. The total capitalization lost around $100 billion as every single coin from the top 20 is in the red. Some lost more than others, but we’ll get to that later. Kicking it off with Bitcoin. It had a relatively calm week, and even though it’s...Read More
On-chain analytics provider, Glassnode, has detailed the current state of the Bitcoin network which appears to be fundamentally strong, despite the lethargic price action. Labeling it an “impressively quiet week” the company confirmed that volatility is diminishing as BTC remained range bound between roughly $34,900 and $32,500. “It is starting to feel like the calm...Read More
CryptoPotato had the opportunity to host a discussion with Lennix Lai – the Financial Markets Director at OKEx. Established in 2017, OKEx is one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges in the world by means of trading volume and is also a big player in China. We took the opportunity to discuss, first hand, what’s currently...Read More
With Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) biggest BTC unlocking event scheduled to happen in the middle of July, many market analysts and traders are worried about the potential effects of this event on bitcoin’s price and the crypto market in general. However, crypto trading firm, QCP Capital, believes the unlocking will not pose any significant threat...Read More
BTC continues the drawn-out phase of consolidation as it trades sideways inside a short-term symmetrical triangle pattern. It looks as BTC awaits the next huge move as the apex of the triangle draws near – in a matter of days or even hours, and the trading volume decreases, which typically happens before a massive move....Read More
Bitcoin investors have halted depositing their assets onto cryptocurrency exchanges and have actually started to withdraw substantial quantities, says on-chain data. Furthermore, it showed that most of the withdrawals came from retail investors, but whales and institutions have also accumulated BTC lately. Exchange Withdrawals to Early Highs Data from CryptoQuant highlighted the recent trends in...Read More
