Looking back at 2019, the cryptocurrency industry witnessed the entry of several mainstream companies into its ecosystem. However, Facebook’s Libra project was the one that garnered the most attention. Even though the buzz around the project seems to have sobered down, it still is a hot topic of discussion. China wasn’t far behind, as the...Read More
Ranked 19 on the crypto assets leaderboard, NEO is also known as the Chinese version of Ethereum. Although being 96 percent down from it’s an all-time high of ~$200, the token still has been a hit amongst traders off late. The question is can NEO really prove to be a winning investment next year? Let’s...Read More
2019 was an interesting year for cryptocurrencies. Some would say it wasn’t as bad as the crypto winter in 2018 and others would note it wasn’t as great as bull run 2017. One thing’s for sure, ever since the all-time price highs, interest in cryptocurrencies has been waning. According to data from Google Trends and...Read More
Following the recent freezing of around US$9 million of donations to the Hong Kong protest movement, demonstrators have now turned their attention towards financial censorship. With hostility against the banking industry rising, Bitcoin, as a censorship resistant asset, may well stand to benefit.The most recent manifestation of the ongoing civil disobedience has seen thousands of...Read More
Blockchain Capital Partner, Spencer Bogart, has been talking to Bloomberg about his predictions for Bitcoin in 2020. TL;DR – things will go vertical, and though he isn’t specifically referring to BTC price, that may well follow. The End Of The Horizontal Competition Era Bogart’s most anticipated element of cryptocurrency industry development in 2020 is to see...Read More
Is the bottom in? Since Bitcoin (BTC) fell precipitously to $6,600 late last month and $6,400 just days ago, analysts have been asking if the leading cryptocurrency has finally found a price bottom after a multi-month downturn.Related Reading: Eat My Shorts: Everything You Need To Know About The Bitcoin Bart PatternAnalysts have understandably divided over the...Read More
Every four years, the block reward for Bitcoin miners are cut by half. The previous halving took place in July 2016 and the next halving is expected to take place in May 2020. While the price of Bitcoin has been moving sideways without any major surge or fall, the community believes that the halving could...Read More
BitMEX is currently the dominant trading platform across the cryptocurrency market, and often speaks to or makes predictions about the state of Bitcoin with enough authority that people do indeed listen up intently.The post appeared first on NewsBTCRead More
The introduction of bitcoin derivatives has skewed the pricing mechanism of the top cryptocurrency, analyst says. In this environment, there’s no guarantee that the upcoming bitcoin halving will have a positive impact on price. | Image: shutterstock.com Bitcoin Asset manager claims most firms looking to speculate on bitcoin will use derivatives market instead of the...Read More
The general sentiment among the traditional financial markets is at extremely high levels of greed, according to the Fear and Greed Index. At the same time, the chart suggests mostly fearful feelings among the cryptocurrency market, but could those emotions be an indicator of a trend reversal? Greed Sentiment In The Stock Market The Fear...Read More
Could the price difference between Bitcoin price on spot platforms like Coinbase and Tether-based platforms like Binance offer investors insight into if the crypto asset is currently a buy or a sell?The post appeared first on NewsBTCRead More
We’re almost in another halving year. The third Bitcoin halving is slated to be one of the biggest events since the inception of the cryptocurrency. Scheduled for 14, May 2020, the reduction of the block rewards is expected to lead to a price increase owing to the principles of supply and demand, but on the...Read More
Bitcoin’s daily close yesterday confirmed that there will not be any more upside, at least, nothing above $7,600. Moreover, the indicators that exhibited bullish trends have slowed down; they are on the verge of a reversal. Moreover, the price also got rejected by the centerline of a major descending channel seen on the daily time...Read More
Data shows that Bitcoin’s hashrate has just hit a new all-time high of 111 EH/s, which represents a 170.73% increase since January 1, 2019. Bitcoin Hashrate. Source: Blockchain.com Hash rate measures the amount of computing power used by miners to generate new blocks every 10 minutes, keeping the Bitcoin network running at all times, a...Read More
Many are pinning their hopes on next year’s bitcoin halving as the catalyst for another bull rally. There may be wider issues at large though, especially with regards to bitcoin mining. Bitcoin Halving 141 Days Away The countdown continues to bitcoin’s halving which has now been estimated on May 14, 2020. The widely anticipated event...Read More
Bitcoin to hit $100,000 two years from now at Christmas 2021? Don’t believe it, warns Bloomberg’s markets editor. | Source: Shutterstock Bloomberg Markets editor bashes the Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow model for allegedly mispredicting the cryptocurrency price. Joe Weisenthal says scarcity is not an influential factor in pricing bitcoin in the future. People only need to bid...Read More
Since yesterday, Bitcoin’s price movement has been flowing downward in a series of waterfalls, with some sideways movement in between. The daily close yesterday being rejected at the two-year moving average at around $7529 caused Bitcoin to flip from being slightly bullish to majorly bearish, causing a flurry of liquidations on BitMEX Bitcoin longs. Source: BTCUSD...Read More
Not so long ago, crypto exchanges came under fire for allegedly facilitating wash trading and trade volume manipulation. Following Bitwise’s report about exchanges faking volumes, popular data site, CoinMarketCap faced backlash for reporting false volumes. TradingView’s General Manager, Pierce Crosby explained spoofing in the equities market is similar to creating fake volumes in the crypto...Read More
There are plenty of metrics and models used to anticipate the future price of Bitcoin. A popular one is stock to flow ratio but one Bloomberg host has called it nonsense adding that coin supply has little effect on BTC prices.Bitcoin S2F Prediction Model ‘Nonsense’According to economics reference materials, stock to flow is defined as...Read More
At least six crypto Youtube channels have reported in recent hours that their content is being removed under the site’s “harmful and dangerous” policy, with one popular channel claiming Youtube pointed to a “sale of regulated goods.” Chris Dunn is one of these, whose channel has over 200k subscribers and has had multiple videos removed...Read More
Bitcoin price failed to extend gains above $7,700 and declined more than $400 against the US Dollar.The price is now trading below $7,400 and it declined close to the $7,260 support area.Earlier, there was a break below a contacting triangle with support near $7,500 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from...Read More
Bitcoin (BTC) has been caught in a firm uptrend over the past several days, which has primarily been the result of the massive upwards momentum that was sparked when it tapped lows of $6,400 earlier last week.This momentum led BTC as high as $7,700 today before it was met with significant resistance that led its...Read More
After months of brutal downtrend, it seems that bulls are returning to the Bitcoin (BTC) market. Since the leading cryptocurrency hit $6,400 earlier this month, bulls have taken control of the asset, pushing it from those multi-month lows to as high as $7,700 just this morning prior to a 4% drop.Related Reading: CME Futures Data: Institutions...Read More
Given bitcoin’s volatile price swings, one would expect there to be more interest in this currency. If the recent LocalBitcoins volume is an official indicator, that seems to be anything but the case. Many “experts’ often point out how a large amount of bitcoin trading doesn’t happen on centralized exchanges. LocalBitcoins Falls out of Favor...Read More
Ever since Bitcoin plummeted to lows of $6,400 last week, BTC and the aggregated crypto markets have been caught within a firm upwards tailwind that has led many investors to believe that the market’s recent lows will ultimately mark a long-term bottom.One key technical indicator that has historically predicted both the beginnings and ends of...Read More
At long last, Bitcoin (BTC) has started to show signs of life. Over the past 48 hours, the cryptocurrency has pressed higher, moving past the tight range in the $7,100s it was stuck in for days.Related Reading: CME Futures Data: Institutions Still Wary Despite Bitcoin’s Bullish SignsBy Monday morning, the cryptocurrency was trading as high as...Read More
According to Vision Hill Group, a trend notably observed throughout 2019 has been the major shift of crypto-asset from a currency sentiment, towards utilization of tokens for financial applications and utility. Bitcoin‘s portrayal as a store-of-value has been one of the most popular narratives in 2019 as other assets such as Ether carved a different utility...Read More
Bitcoin hash rate has been performing exceptionally this year. Miners around the world clearly see a bright future for the leading crypto asset.The same cannot be said for other big projects in the industry. Whereas Bitcoin just hit a new all-time high hash rate, the likes of Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and SV, and Litecoin have...Read More
History often repeats, and financial markets like Bitcoin and crypto regularly cycle. But past performance doesn’t always guarantee future results.The post appeared first on NewsBTCRead More
The launch of Bakkt, launch of Galaxy Digital’s brand new BTC funds, Fidelity‘s bitcoin product and TD Ameritrade’s bitcoin trading service on the Nasdaq via its brokerage platform marked some of the marquee events over the past 12 months, but according to Vision Hill’s recent report, constructive participation is yet to enter the space. Capital...Read More
