So, MicroStrategy bought millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin, without moving the price in any direction. Isn’t that a little surprising? At least for an asset where manipulation is said to be easy and present on a huge scale. It is weird how the news of a publicly-stated company buying $425 million worth of Bitcoin...Read More
Bitcoin is worth much more than what it is today. That’s not a rhetorical statement; in fact, it’s a practical one. If the metric you’re measuring Bitcoin against is potentially infinite, then to put a finite value of $10,600 on a cryptocurrency which has a fixed supply doesn’t make sense. Every fiat currency can be...Read More
With many speculating the future of DeFi, given the rapid growth in the ecosystem, investment firm, Pantera Capital has announced that its Digital Asset Fund will actively invest into DeFi assets more, as Pantera Capital believed that DeFi was the future of finance and the sector is expected to grow as crypto prices go up. ...Read More
Four years after the infamous Bitfinex hack that resulted in one of the largest bitcoin thefts since the Mt Gox incident in 2014, notifications published by the Whale Alert twitter account today, stated that approximately 1,190 BTC ($12,645,059) of stolen funds from the BitFinex hack in 2016 has been moved to an unknown wallet. Whale...Read More
Have you been missing the price action in Bitcoin markets across exchanges lately? Based on WooBull’s Bitcoin volatility chart, 60-day volatility is 5.65 and 90-day volatility is 8.95. The recent drop in volatility can be attributed to the reduced inflow of Bitcoin into exchanges. Bitcoin Volatility || Source: Woobull Charts Trade volume on spot exchanges...Read More
When it comes to the DeFi ecosystem at large, there seems to be a lot of eagerness with regard to the growth of Bitcoin’s DeFi space and on those lines, another startup has taken up the expansion of BTC-backed DeFi products. RSK Infrastructure Framework (RIF), a Bitcoin-powered smart contract platform will make MakerDAO’s ERC-20 DAI...Read More
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the U.S Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) have yet again provided clarity on the cryptocurrency and blockchain regulations in a webinar. In the webinar, SEC Chairman, Jay Clayton, said that SEC’s “door was wide open” for entities to understand how to “tokenize the ETF...Read More
A total of $29.85 billion has been erased from Bitcoin’s market capitalization since the last peak on August 18, 2020. This decline has led to speculation if the ongoing market is bullish and wild price swings have come from BitMEX or other top exchanges, or is it bearish. Bitcoin’s price is in the $10.3-$10.6k range...Read More
September was an eventful month for the crypto-market, to say the least, with the month seeing a major crypto-exchange hack among a host of other developments. However, despite the quarter ending as it did, Bitcoin did witness its second-best Q3 close in history. $150M drained from KuCoin: BTC down 1% BitMEX charged by DOJ, CTO...Read More
Bitcoin’s price responded to the CFTC’s charges against BitMEX by losing $300 of its value in a single day. While the anticipated corrections did take many by surprise, Bitcoin’s price soon steadied itself, with the cryptocurrency trading around the $10.5k range, at press time. That’s not all, however, as Open Interest hit new lows on...Read More
What’s the point of a safe-haven asset? Well, for starters, it’s to keep one’s portfolio safe. Gold has long been seen as the traditional safe-haven asset among traditional investment avenues. Despite Bitcoin being a year into the financial world, it still hasn’t managed to budge the yellow metal. But, is gold doing its job? Let’s...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be considered investment advice After CFTC brought charges against BitMEX for allegedly violating the Bank Secrecy Act, Bitcoin tumbled down the charts and fell by 4%. However, BitMEX took a much harder hit as its OI has since...Read More
Every quarter of the year 2020 has posed a new problem for the cryptocurrency market. With the last quarter now underway, it would seem that the problem in question has surfaced sooner than usual. This, after American regulators entered the game once again and caused panic to seep into the market. After charges against BitMEX...Read More
Let’s be honest – 2020 is not going the way you thought it would. If you had taken a look at the calendar before the start of the year, what would you have reckoned would be the monthly volatility of Bitcoin? How do you think the largest cryptocurrency in the world would’ve navigated what was...Read More
Romania’s National Agency for the Management of Seized Assets (ANABI) announced today that it would begin auctioning off bitcoin and ether, that were confiscated as part of an undisclosed fraud case. The starting price for 0.97 ETH is 1670 Romanian Lei ($ 401) and for 0.6 BTC – 30,535 lei ($ 7347). A local news...Read More
The premier cryptocurrency was trading near $10,612 at the time of writing and is also representing a roughly 4% decline over the past 24 hours, according to data from trading view. Prices dropped by nearly $300 in just minutes, but have bounced slightly at the time of writing; but BTC price fell roughly by $500...Read More
Bitcoin has seen a considerable surge as of today and is up 2% in the last 24 hours. Based on buyers, the price could hit $11,000 $11,100 or crash down to $10,700. The sellers could drive it as low as $10,300 too. Today’s short-term price analysis takes a look at bitcoin on an hourly time...Read More
Bitcoin’s multiple failed attempts to hit the $11,000 in the last week shows the lack of buyers’ momentum. In fact, the last time bitcoin hit $11,000 was when it fell from its local top at $11,100. Recent on-chain data suggests buyers might be ousted as short-sellers are racking up. Buyers Vs. Sellers The long to...Read More
A new survey by the Royal United Services Institute and ACAMS seems to have ruffled a few feathers, while also strengthening few of the market’s prevailing narratives. The survey found that a majority of the respondents associated with either the government or financial institutions, private or otherwise, think of cryptocurrencies as a risk, rather than...Read More
Despite high price turbulence and trend concerns, Bitcoin noted a major milestone over the past 24-hours. According to data released by Messari, Bitcoin completed its longest-ever period above $10,000, crossing its previous record of 62 days that spanned over 1 December 2017 and 31 January 2018. While comparisons with Bitcoin’s most bullish period are good...Read More
Bitcoin has been pulled out of cryptocurrency exchanges since the start of 2020, while its price has surged by 32% year to date. At first, it may seem counterintuitive that Bitcoin is being pulled out of exchanges while there is an uptrend in prices, especially since while the price has risen by 63% since 2019,...Read More
Everybody has a favorite day of the week. For the workaholics, it’s Monday, for the weekend warriors, it’s Sunday, and for everyone else, it’s Friday. Well, not really, but you get the point. There’s a day of the week for all of us. But, is there a day of the week for Bitcoin? It’s been...Read More
Bitcoin Options are holding steady, despite Friday’s expiries that amounted to over $1B. As predicted a week ago, the expiry event was a smokescreen. In fact, the outcome was the opposite of the anticipated crash on the CME, with Open Interest and Volumes remaining consistent. According to data from Skew, $7B worth of contracts expired...Read More
MicroStrategy’s $500M investment in Bitcoin, now its primary asset reserve, has consistently made the headlines for over a week. Significantly, this move was viewed as an indicator of institutional interest since it has long been considered to be an important driver of Bitcoin’s price. During the historic bull run of 2017, institutional interest was key...Read More
Bitcoin has been treading higher every day and was priced at $10,700, at the time of writing. While most of the market is still hesitant due to choppy market moves, there is an upside to this. The overall market sentiment has shifted recently from being fearful to one of neutrality, after a small Bitcoin surge....Read More
Let’s face it, no one wants to buy Bitcoin. Let me explain. What I mean is, no one wants to buy Bitcoin at its current price, whatever its price may be. We always tell ourselves, “maybe tomorrow it will have fallen some more, and then I’ll buy it.” And oftentimes, tomorrow doesn’t come. However, some...Read More
Bitcoin climbing to $10,700 may have been a fleeting moment since, at the time of writing, the price seemed to be dropping yet again below the aforementioned level. On a longer-term timeframe, it was bullish, but on a short-term timeframe, the price had just broken out of a bearish pattern at the time. Bitcoin 1-hour...Read More
On 25 September, crypto-trading firm Alameda Research minted the largest-ever quantity of Wrapped Bitcoin [WBTC]. News of the development was shared on Twitter by WBTC, with the tweet going on to note that the mint was worth 2,317 BTC, equivalent to $25 million. Source: Etherscan In fact, Alameda Research beat the previous record set by...Read More
According to a local news report, four members from the Yisrael Beiteinu political party in Israel have submitted a new bill that proposes to recognize Bitcoin (BTC) as a digital currency instead of an asset, at Knesset, the legislative branch of the Israeli government. The reason for this amendment to BTC’s current regulation stemmed from...Read More
Binance Futures was launched a year back and today, as per CoinGecko’s ranking of top derivative exchanges, it stands third. The exchange has been popular among users due to its active listing of in-demand products like Chainlink [LINK] quarterly 1225 coin-margined contracts with leverage of 75x. At the time, LINK wasn’t being significantly affected by...Read More
