In a bull market, everything is good. With Bitcoin climbing to new highs every month, no matter which indicator, analysis, data-point you look at, everything will tell you to buy or hold. But, what if the markets weren’t so bullish? At the time of writing, Bitcoin was trading at a level a little over $16,000,...Read More
Paxos, PayPal’s liquidity provider, has seen its trading volume move up quite considerably over the past few weeks after crypto-trading went live on the platform to great acclaim. So for anyone looking to track crypto volumes going through PayPal…given Paxos (ItBit) is their liquidity provider, and the exchange was doing ~$3mln a day before, here’s...Read More
Bitcoin has tapped the $16k-level twice and still, it is yet to sustain a breach or a capture of this level. What does this mean? Well, one can argue that this shows the market’s bulls are weak and ready to be farmed by the bears. “Ready to be farmed?” Yes, ready to be farmed. After...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice 16.78% and 48.22% – That’s how much Bitcoin has surged since 1 November and 1 October, respectively. Suffice to say, Bitcoin has been on a roll in the last quarter [since September – 34%]....Read More
Let’s be honest, you were more surprised than anything seeing Bitcoin trade at over $16,000. You probably thought to yourself, “How long will this last?” With the cryptocurrency trading at its highest point since January 2018, and up by over 120 percent since the beginning of the year, the sentiment is firmly bullish, but that...Read More
As Bitcoin’s price crossed $16,000 on spot exchanges, one expected that institutions would unload their bags and book profits. However, based on the Map of unspent Bitcoins from Whalemaps, inflows to whale wallets above $12,000 remain unspent. In fact, institutions seem to be buying and HODLing at the same time. The chart attached herein highlights...Read More
When Bitcoin was launched back in 2009, experts believed that it was launched to tackle the global financial crisis. The banking crisis was at the heart of it, and Satoshi’s vision may have been to decentralize what we know as money. Despite regulatory clampdown in the first 7 to 8 years of its existence, Bitcoin,...Read More
Bitcoin’s price rallied from $15,500 to $16,000 in less than seven days. Based on data from CoinMarketCap, the last time the price crossed $16,000 was way back in January 2018. However, notwithstanding Bitcoin’s recent price performances, the hype around the hike in 2018 was much higher than the one we are seeing today, in 2020....Read More
Electrum-based malware scam was once again highlighted by Whale Alert tracking service by drawing attention to a payment made to an address used by Electrum malware. According to the tweet, the payment involved 2.042 BTC worth about $32,876 at that time. 🚔 A payment of 2.042 #BTC (32,876 USD) was just made to a confirmed...Read More
Bitcoin’s correlation with gold has inspired many narratives over the past eight weeks. However, the correlation may be deeper than popular opinion. The halving mechanism that is coded in the asset itself, drives its shortage of supply and reduces mining rewards in half every four years. Why is the chosen number of years, specifically four?...Read More
Michael Sonnenshein, Managing Director at Grayscale Investments said in a tweet today that the Grayscale team has raked in over $115 million in bitcoin alone. The exec also pointed out that this amount came to Grayscale all in a day, yesterday, on 12 November. According to the tweet: the @Grayscale team raked in over $115...Read More
For many, Bitcoin is more than just a cryptocurrency. For most, Bitcoin is THE cryptocurrency. Why is this so? Well, there are many reasons, but the primary reason usually given by proponents is that it is the world’s biggest and its oldest. Fair enough, but is that all there is to that? Well, not quite,...Read More
The state electric company of Carabobo, one of Venezuela’s 23 states, has reportedly disconnected bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining equipment across the region. According to an anonymous crypto miner, the state electric company, Corpoelec did this in compliance with “superior orders.” The miner told a local news company that over the weekend Corpoelec had indeed shut...Read More
Bitcoin’s [BTC] price recorded its 2020 high of $16,177 today, on the 12th of November. Even though the cryptocurrency’s price had dropped under $16k at press time, the derivatives market has been underlining the active nature of the traders who are aiming for a higher price as 2020’s Q4 culminates. As the value of Bitcoin...Read More
American-Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point published a follow-up article that revealed the origin of Bitcoin ransomware that attacked several companies in Israel in the last couple of weeks. Check Point researchers partnered with Whitestream – a blockchain intelligence firm to scrutinize wallet addresses left in ransomware notes that helped them trace the ransoms to Excoino,...Read More
Over the past few years, Bitcoin’s popularity has taken flight, with the cryptocurrency a well-known asset in the financial industry today. While it has become fairly common to talk about Bitcoin, fundamentally, it remains dissimilar to any other asset class. One factor that completely distinguishes Bitcoin from other asset classes is its supply distribution that...Read More
What are your top 3 answers to the question, “Why would institutions even want to invest in Bitcoin?” Bitcoin has a good track record and it outperforms equitiesYeah, Bitcoin has outperformed almost every asset out there that has a history. It has done this within a span of a decade, give or take 2-3 years....Read More
While most of 2020 meant uncertainty and consolidation for Bitcoin, the past few weeks saw the cryptocurrency in good stead from a trading price point of view. Not only did Bitcoin’s price manage to stay above the crucial $15k-price level, but it also briefly breached the $16k-mark, before falling again. Source: Coinstats While there has...Read More
Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, after much prevarication, finally breached the $16,000-mark across some major crypto-exchanges. In the last hour alone, Bitcoin hiked by over 1.5%, with the cryptocurrency gaining by over $150 on the charts. Additionally, BTC was up by 4% and 11% on the daily and weekly timeframes, respectively. Source: BTC/USD on TradingView...Read More
Bit Digital, a NASDAQ-listed Bitcoin mining company headquartered in New York, has entered into several asset purchase agreements to acquire $13,903,088 worth of Bitcoin miners with a total hash power capacity of 1,000 Ph/s. The agreements also involve an offering of 4,344,711 ordinary shares at a price of $3.20 per share. After this transaction closes,...Read More
MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor has been in the news since MicroStrategy’s purchase of $500 Million worth of Bitcoin, right off of the company’s balance sheet. The spotlight on crypto Twitter has been on Michael Saylor and recently he tweeted about the debate between Bitcoin and Gold and how one would end the other, his choice of...Read More
Asset managers are riddled with low-yield fixed-income allocations, however, they are constituents of most portfolios. The role of fixed-income allocations is to deliver consistent returns, though the overall impact on the portfolio’s ROI is low. To improve this ROI, some fund managers turned to Bitcoin for exposing their funds to a higher risk-adjusted return. Traditionally...Read More
ETC Group’s Bitcoin exchange-traded crypto has become the first cryptocurrency exchange-traded product (ETP) that boasts $100 million in assets under management since its launch in late June, according to ETF Stream. CEO of ETC Group, Bradley Duke, said that by reaching the $100m AUM milestone in just over four months, the Group feels that the...Read More
The most recent Bitcoin rally was good, even though we did not hit $16,000 or go beyond it. This was a much-needed pump after the much-anticipated Bitcoin halving and the Black Thursday crash back in March. However, an interesting takeaway from the rally, if one were to look closer, was the identity of who helped...Read More
In what is a surprising development, Professor Nouriel Roubini, dubbed ‘Dr. Doom’ by many in the crypto-community because of his skeptical remarks about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, seems to have softened his stance on Bitcoin. During a recent interview, Roubini said that Bitcoin can be considered a partial store of value because it cannot easily be...Read More
Every dollar increase in Bitcoin’s price is a testament to its worth in the cryptocurrency pie. Despite there being over 2000 coins in the market, Bitcoin’s undeniable importance is underlined by its share in the entire coin market. According to the October report from cryptocurrency data analytics company CoinGecko, among the top cryptocurrencies by market...Read More
Bitcoin’s rally to $16,000 has fallen short, however, it was enjoyable nonetheless. The market’s altcoins, in particular, suffered during this brief rally, before going on the road to recovery again. This brings us to the next question(s)- What of Bitcoin? Is the top in? Well, it is simple. We will see either of the two...Read More
With the Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index noting a reading of 88 on the charts, based on data from Alternative, the trade volume of Tether was noted to have dropped by nearly 4%. In fact, the drop was pretty noticeable on the price charts too as Tether hit a low of $0.99 for the first...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following analysis are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice Bitcoin’s dramatic surge to ~$16,000 was a good run, however, the fuel seemed to have exhausted itself, with the market’s bulls now running on fumes. At press time, BTC was trading at $15,142, $800...Read More
Bitcoin, at the time of writing, was trading at a 112.5 percent premium to its price at the beginning of the year, a 282.5 percent premium to its lowest price in the year, and 28 percent off its highest price ever. Even with all the fervor around the price rally, one question needs to be...Read More
