The crypto space is curiously waiting for the Consumer Price Index (CPI) data which is scheduled to be released today, Jan 12 2023. The crypto market sentiment ahead of CPI release seems to be quite positive as the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap, Bitcoin has surged beyond $18,000 levels. Bitcoin price rally has influenced...Read More
American billionaire hedge fund manager Marc Lasry said he should have bought “a lot more” Bitcoin (BTC) a few years ago. During a CNBC’s Squawk Box interview, Lasry commented on BTC’s performance and 2020’s bull run. He regrets not buying more as the price surge happened a lot quicker than he thought —mainly due to...Read More
By Dmitriy Gurkovskiy, Chief Analyst at RoboForex Earlier today, Bitcoin updated its all-time high once again. However, the correction that took place on February 15th, 2021, made over 300 thousand traders close their positions with a total loss of $2 billion. Almost all these positions were long – traders are in a hurry to buy the...Read More
Bitcoin’s price rallied to $37900 and as momentum built up, the asset was ready to cross $40000 with a 17.8% increase in a single day. However, a sell-off led to a price drop to $33000 level. As Bitcoin rallied there were metrics that offered buying opportunities and shorting opportunities throughout the rally, on the way...Read More
eToro faced some technical issues today on 27 January. Several users took to Twitter to complain that they were unable to use the app. This was later confirmed by the eToto team which acknowledged the matter and said on Twitter: We’re aware that some users are unable to close positions on eToro. We’re aware that...Read More
The collective crypto ecosystem exhibited a significant decline on the 21st of January. Bitcoin dropped down to $28,880 and after registering a new all-time high, Ethereum dropped down to $1081. However, while Ethereum and other altcoins have managed to recoup higher levels in the charts, Bitcoin is still struggling below its immediate resistance range. At...Read More
After suffering a massive correction on the 21st of January, the rest of the crypto industry has been able to register a pullback in the upward direction. However, for Bitcoin, it hasn’t been the same. Assets like Chainlink, Polkadot, and Ethereum are above their last resistance levels but it has been a slow recovery for...Read More
For a while now, Bitcoin has remained above the $30,000 range even though the asset saw one of the most “dramatic drops” compared to altcoins, over the past week. While some traders gave into FUD, others thought BTC could fall as low as $26,000. But a significant number of people in the space are waiting...Read More
After an action-packed week, Bitcoin is trading at $35468 after having endured a flash crash. However, the price action left traders asking why the flash crash in Bitcoin took place? Also, does this mean the rally is over and it was over-extended? As per the data, there may have been excessive speculation in Bitcoin’s price,...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
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
Erik Voorhees, who founded ShapeShift believes that it will take less than six months for the cryptocurrency market capitalization to reach $2 trillion. Voorhees, a Bitcoin maximalist took to Twitter on 7 January and said: Crypto Market Cap: $1 Trillion Took ten years. It will take less than six months to get to $2 Trillion.https://t.co/X4HCHcbEKs...Read More
The circulating supply of Bitcoin, at press time, was 18,591,375 ~ 18.6 million. That is close to 88.6% of the total supply. Now, even though each token is worth close to $31k, understanding the state of liquidity gives a better perspective of its value. According to Glassnode’s latest report, illiquidity is on a rise in...Read More
Comparing Bitcoin with the traditional asset class and commodity assets such as gold has been a common theme in 2020. However, while most assets were unable to compete with Bitcoin’s ascendency in terms of RoI, Tesla did it better. In fact, almost 3 times better. In order to understand the dynamics on a grander scale,...Read More
New research indicates 78% of the circulating Bitcoin supply, which is 14.5 million BTC, as being illiquid. According to analysts Kilian Heeg and Rafael Schultze-Kraft at Glassnode, increased perception of Bitcoin as a store of value and hodling activity is reducing liquid bitcoin. Illiquid Bitcoin has been increasing this year, which means there will be...Read More
Not many can deny that bitcoin is in the final leg of the 2020 bull run before it hits the $30,000 mark. In fact, bullish 2021 predictions expect bitcoin’s price to range from $36,000 to beyond $300,000. With regard to the digital asset’s price surges, Jeremy Allaire, of Circle spelled out key drivers for this...Read More
Ricardo Salinas Pliego, a Mexican billionaire businessman believes that bitcoin is his best investment ever. In a recent interview, Salinas said that he first heard about Bitcoin from a Grayscale representative who gave a talk about how Bitcoin was “going to take over.” After the conference, the businessman said that he invested a small amount...Read More
Grayscale Investments’ assets under management (AUM) are now worth $19 billion in crypto according to founder Barry Silbert. CEO of Digital Currency Group took to Twitter to announce that as of 29 December, Grayscale’s AUM has tripled from 1 November, when it had $7.6 billion in assets under management. The firm has also seen significant...Read More
2020 is drawing to a close and is leaving us with another important milestone. On 16th December, Bitcoin reached a new all-time high in the charts, registering a valuation above $20,000. At press time, it was as high at $23,200 but surprisingly certain attributes of Bitcoin failed to register many distinctive changes. While the price...Read More
Bitcoin’s dominance is one of the biggest drivers behind its institutional interest and mainstream adoption. However, in anticipation of an altcoin rally, it was observed that Ethereum and XRP’s dominance rose 1.1% and 2.6% respectively, based on data from CoinGecko’s report. Against Bitcoin’s gradual price rally, Ethereum’s price increased by over 50% in November and...Read More
American businessman and best-selling author of “Rich Dad Poor Dad,” Robert Kiyosaki, took to Twitter today to state that the oldest and leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin as well as precious metals such as gold and silver, had a “bright future.” He also explained why he thought Bitcoin will soon be heading toward the $50,000 range in...Read More
Cynthia Lummis, an American politician who is the US Senator-elect from Wyoming, believes that Bitcoin will be crucial in the event that the fiat system crashes down. In a recent episode of the “What Bitcoin Did” podcast, Lummis told Peter McCormack: If we reach the point where we have overspent so much that things start...Read More
The entire asset class is tied together. Whenever Bitcoin rises there is a certain inevitability of other altcoins rising along with it. It happened in 2017 and now it is happening in 2020. Over the past 8 weeks, Bitcoin has been on a climb, accelerating through multiple resistance, while other assets like Ethereum have followed...Read More
After reaching the $17,000 mark on 17 November, Bitcoin has now breached the $18,000 range across some major crypto-exchanges today. Whilst Bitcoin dipped by 0.7% in the last hour, BTC prices hiked by over 4.7%, in a 24 hour period at the time of writing. Overall, Bitcoin was up by 14.6% in the weekly timeframe....Read More
Over the past few weeks, Bitcoin has been leading the crypto rally and is continuing to do so. The world’s largest cryptocurrency has returned to another new high of 2020, as it finally breached the $17,000-mark across some major crypto-exchanges. In the last hour alone, Bitcoin hiked by over 2.2%, on the charts. Additionally, BTC...Read More
At the moment, analyzing Bitcoin’s price chart is like taking aim in the dark. It is an unfamiliar trading range and it was last witnessed during January 2018. With the current market being extremely bullish over the last month, correction still awaits BTC’s market hence we will analyzing a couple of scenarios that may play...Read More
After its third-retest within a period of 7-days, Bitcoin finally breached above the $14,000 and it is currently consolidating above $14.5. The current price is at an extremely unfamiliar trading zone, last witnessed in the first week of January 2018. At the moment, there wasn’t any particular resistance to look out for, but the trend...Read More
With some minor price adjustments to the downside seen in Bitcoin over the last 48 hours, the alt market was once again painted in red. However, the technical indicators for Bitcoin while showing little price recovery progress, maintained mixed signals on volatility and price action. While the short-term trend for Tron and Compound continued to remain...Read More
For BitMEX, it hasn’t been the best of years from a popularity perspective. First, it faced massive criticism during the March 13th crash, when traders lost money due to an alleged DDOS attack, and recently Arthur Hayes, CEO of the exchange faced charges over violation of anti-money laundering policies. It hasn’t been smooth sailing and...Read More
The aggregate open interest in Bitcoin futures is up 43% since the beginning of October. Based on data from Skew, cyclical drops in Bitcoin’s open interest on top derivatives exchanges occur every 45-50 days. BTC Futures Aggregated open interest || Source: Skew In the past year there were 3 peaks of open interest above $5.5...Read More
