Bitcoin’s price surge in the last 3 to 4 months has been exponential without a doubt. However, it is relatively less exponential when compared to the 2017 bull run. The 2017 bull run saw a 228% surge in 34 days while the current bull run has seen a 125% surge in 27 days. BTCUSD TradingView...Read More
Bitcoin price is currently facing a correction that has caused the crypto asset to drop a whopping 20% in the past 24 to 48 hours. This drop has caused liquidation worth more than $2 billion. At press time, bitcoin is testing the support at $33,900 while also being in a state of limbo. Bitcoin 4-hour...Read More
Bitcoin undergoes correction and while it should not astonish anyone, the rate of decline has taken the market by surprise. Over the past 24-hours, Bitcoin has depreciated from a high of $41146 to a low of $32330. BTC/USD on Trading View The registered drop was over 20% and it is currently the largest drop since...Read More
The Bitcoin futures platform launched in 2018 by Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has entered into a “definitive agreement” for business cooperation that will lead to becoming a publicly-traded company with an enterprise value of over $2 billion. The company has also appointed a new CEO. Reports emerged last week suggesting that Bakkt was negotiating a strategic...Read More
Bitcoin has surged a whopping 100% in the last 30 days, however, the recent crash might indicate that the top is in, or at least an interim top. While the investors were FOMO-ing, bitcoin’s on-chain indicators flashed sell-signals. The main reason why this crash took place is due to bitcoin miners. In fact, bitcoin’s recent...Read More
Scott Minerd, the CIO of the Wall Street behemoth Guggenheim Partners that recently decided to allocate funds in BTC, said that bitcoin’s recent price increase was unsustainable in the short term. Furthermore, he advised that it was time to take some money off the table, but speculations arose if this is part of Minerd’s master...Read More
The alt season of 2017 was an accessory to Bitcoin’s bull run. Once Bitcoin’s price rallied to a new ATH, investment started pouring in for altcoin projects. This meant there wasn’t much independence in altcoin rallies. Besides, short-term BTC tops were followed by altcoin rallies as investment flowed in and out faster, in altcoins. However,...Read More
Bitcoin isn’t the only cryptocurrency in the market’s good books right now. In fact, Ethereum is bullish too, with the world’s largest altcoin going past $1,300 on the charts weeks after plans for ETH 2.0 went underway. Look beyond the two What about the rest of the market though? Well, you have your Bitcoin, and...Read More
Bitcoin, at the time of writing, was priced at just under $40,500. In fact, just over 24 hours ago, the world’s largest cryptocurrency was hovering under the $42,000-mark. Let that sink in – $42,000! Just over a month ago, the cryptocurrency was valued at $18,500, with the all-important question on people’s minds being – Will...Read More
With the recent spike in Bitcoin’s price, its market capitalization is nearly 7% that of Gold. On-chain analysts and crypto influencers on Twitter have been calling for Gold Flippening and this could be the first step in that direction. Back in October 2020, when Bitcoin’s network momentum was increasing steadily, Bitcoin’s correlation with Gold was...Read More
In a recent Twitter reply, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX admitted that he wouldn’t turn out getting paid in Bitcoin. His statement came as a reply to Ben Mezrich, the author of Bitcoin Billionaires. Ben Mezrich and Elon Musk on Bitcoin A couple of days ago, Ben Mezrich, the author of Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story...Read More
The cryptocurrency market has been reaching new heights almost every other day. Ethereum the second-largest crypto has been noting its network fees rise in sync with its surging price. The transaction fees for the digital asset reached an all-time high on 4 January when the altcoin was trading above $1,000. According to data provided from...Read More
With Bitcoin’s price crossing $41000 and hitting a new ATH, there are several stories on the internet examining the similarity between the current and the bull runs in 2013 and 2017, which may just be a desperate effort to predict the price trend. However, there are a few metrics that support this comparison. One of...Read More
Most Bitcoin price predictions by technical and on-chain analysts on Crypto Twitter are pointing towards further price discovery beyond $41000 and top on-chain analyst Willy Woo commented on this debate in a twitter thread arguing that BTC may never ever see the $20k price range again, as it currently settles above the $40k level. Source:...Read More
The Bitcoin mining difficulty was adjusted today with a massive 11% rise. As per data provided by BTC.com, this 11% increase will push the mining difficulty over 20 Trillion for the first time. Source: BTC.comThe last time the mining difficulty had hit 20 Trillion was on 17 October 2020. However, after this adjustment, BTC’s price...Read More
Crypto derivatives exchange Deribit just added Bitcoin options with a $300K strike price and December 2021 expiry. And here we go. We thought those 36k options for $BTC were crazy. Oh man build it and they will come right? 👏 https://t.co/zSOofJpQJL — NekoZ (@CryptoNekoZ) January 8, 2021 This move is hugely bullish for Bitcoin, as...Read More
There is no denying that institutions and the big players have been the catalyst for this current crypto market cycle and that notion has been reaffirmed by Morgan Stanley’s latest acquisition. According to reports, Morgan Stanley’s investment management arm boosted a stake in Bitcoin vehicle MicroStrategy Inc. to more than 10% late last year. The...Read More
As Bitcoin’s price rallies there are a few traders wishing for one last price drop so they can fill their bags. This isn’t what retail traders would conventionally ask for, but back in 2017, there were nearly 7 opportunities for buying more Bitcoin, before the price skyrocketed to the ATH. 2020 didn’t exactly see a...Read More
Bitcoin’s market cap, briefly, went past Tesla’s, as the cryptocurrency’s price surged to a new ATH of $41,940. Despite BTC falling at press time owing to a wave of corrections, bullish sentiments claim Bitcoin will be heading towards higher figures amid the U.S dollar’s weakness and growing institutional demand. While some metrics anticipate a coming...Read More
With Bitcoin touching new ATHs every other day, many have an opinion about how high the world’s largest cryptocurrency might go. Morgan Creek Digital’s Anthony Pompliano is one of them, with the exec recently sharing some thoughts on where Bitcoin will be heading, especially in comparison with other assets. In an interview with CNBC FastMoney,...Read More
Over the past seven days, Bitcoin gained more than $11,000 to break above the coveted mark of $40,000. Meanwhile, the entire cryptocurrency market cap surged above $1 trillion for the first time in history. The week started off with bitcoin’s price trading around $29,000, but no one was expecting what happened next. Day after day,...Read More
2020 has been a very consequential year for Bitcoin and it went past its previous ATH established in the infamous bull run of 2017. Taking a cue from the past year, the past 7-days of 2021 have been no different. Bitcoin has been repeatedly in the news for outdoing itself by surging all the way...Read More
When the volatility in the cryptocurrency market is high enough to gain over 12% in price in 24 hours, there is a persistent fear of making mistakes. Bitcoin’s price chart has broken nearly all ceilings to hit the new ATH of $41780 on most top exchanges. While price discovery beyond the new ATH is yet...Read More
After an unplanned four-year holding of nearly 2,000 bitcoins, Finland’s Customs has decided to sell them now. Local authorities seized most of them after Darknet drug-trafficking investigations in 2016, but their value has expanded by about 100x since then. The Right Moment to Sell Finland’s Customs is planning to sell 1,981 bitcoins, most of which...Read More
Since the inception of Bitcoin, people in the community have classified Bitcoin’s rally in terms of its halving period. One cycle is considered from the 1st halving to the 2nd and so on and so forth. We are presently in the 3rd cycle of Bitcoin’s rally and based on the previous 4-year period, users are...Read More
Bitcoin’s active addresses reached a new all-time high, according to data from on-chain analytics platform Glassnode. Source: Glassnode The previous cycle that saw a record number of active addresses was during the bull run in late 2017, which saw a significant amount of interest from retail traders. Many have postulated that this bull run is...Read More
The bitcoin market hit a new all-time high at $40k on 7 January keeping up with its ‘new-day, new- peak’ motto. As traders saw this new price of the world’s largest crypto, it resulted in large scale activity in the derivatives market. Following the market frenzy on Thursday, BTC futures volume hit a peak at...Read More
Bakkt, the Bitcoin futures platform owned and operated by Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), is reportedly planning to go public after a merger with the Chicago-based blank-check company VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings. Bakkt To Go Public? By citing “people with knowledge of the matter,” Bloomberg reported the news earlier, saying that the Bitcoin futures platform is already...Read More
The prominent cryptocurrency exchange platform, Bakkt may be going public as it has been reported to be in preliminary talks with VPC Impact Acquitision Holdings. Bakkt, owned by Intercontinental Exchange Inc., may go public through a merger with the blank-check firm, as per Bloomberg’s sources. The transaction is set to value the combined entity at...Read More
Bitcoin is currently trading at around $38,200 as it pulls back slightly after blasting past $40,000 during late trading on Thursday, January 7. At current prices, the asset is up 33% since the same time last week and it still doesn’t look like it is ready to correct yet. Looking at centralized exchange movements could...Read More
