A week ago, Bitcoin dropped by 8 percent in an hour, minutes after it surged over $12,000 for the first time in 14 months. On August 2, between 0400 to 0500 UTC dropped from $12,000 to under $11,000 and considering the history of the cryptocurrency markets, this bleeding was pegged to continue. Quite surprisingly, not...Read More
Bitcoin is currently trading at $11,700 and has a market cap of $216 billion. The coin’s surge has been undone in the last 24 hours; however, with the way bitcoin is set up, the price might shatter the $12,000 level or head lower. With price stagnating near $12,000, a lot of people might FOMO-in if...Read More
Cryptocurrencies have had a conflicting Q2 and a dormant beginning to Q3. As the price of Bitcoin [BTC] moved sideways, most of major cryptos followed its lead due to their high correlation with BTC. However, there were various alts in the market that have been successful in grabbing more attention than Bitcoin and Ethereum. As...Read More
For most investors, the crypto-market is no longer uncharted territory. Thanks to increasing regulatory clarity and mainstream adoption, institutional investors are now flocking in. With the industry maturing over the past decade, it would seem that North America has emerged to become a very important market, something evidenced by the fact that it has more...Read More
Since it was created, Bitcoin’s aim has always been to prove traditional finance wrong. Now, it seems like this aim is being fulfilled. With every passing day, Bitcoin’s price is either holding firm, surging ahead, or surviving a fallout. Its price performance over the past 3 months is a testament to the same, and this...Read More
This past week, over 231,000 Bitcoin [~$2.54 billion] and 3.5 million Ether [~$1.05 billion] acquiring profit of over 25 percent were sent, according to the latest market intel report by blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. This is a bullish market, one where the king coin is priced at over $11,500 (Its highest price since August 2019)...Read More
The cryptocurrency market has been waiting for a rally since the beginning of the year. However, while the bulls were all set to push the market north, events such as the COVID-19 pandemic intervened to restrict the movement of crypto-assets. Now, once again, analysts are highlighting the bullish signs in the market, with the world’s...Read More
After having struggled below the $10,000 mark for a long time, Bitcoin managed to go past it recently after it broke out of its rather long consolidation phase. While Bitcoin is often accused of exhibiting alarmingly high volatility, during the course of the past month, its volatility dropped substantially to the dismay of many traders...Read More
The crypto-market has been noting a lot of momentum lately, especially in light of price volatility making a comeback. With prices heading north, Bitcoin and many of the market’s altcoins have offered great returns for investors. However, while traditionally many have leaned on Bitcoin, traders may now be eyeing altcoins for the long-term over the...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article analyze the present volatility in the market after Bitcoin’s recent breach of $11,500 After perfectly moving in line with the rest of the crypto-market, Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, finally registered a rally of its own after BTC surged over the crucial $11,500-mark. While many expected BTC to...Read More
Bitcoin market witnessed large sell-off taking place within an hour on 2 August. This selling pressure caused the price of BTC to dip from $12,100 to $10,559. However, the asset immediately bounced back in the following hours and was valued at $11,148 at press time. Traders have been taking advantage of this bullish market. As...Read More
July marked the first month of the Q3 2020 and after an unenthused period in the market, Bitcoin and Ethereum made huge strides in the final 9-days of the month. According to Deribit’s Institutional Newsletter, Bitcoin and Ethereum registered a price jump of about 22% and 48%, respectively, creating a stir in the derivatives market...Read More
The struggle with $9,000 and even the $10,000 levels were taxing on bitcoin but the journey ahead might not be the same. The bull run of 2016-17 blew past the ATH of 2013 bull run. Hence, we can assume that $20,000 will not be a huge level of resistance. As for the important level, the...Read More
In the last 950+ days, bitcoin has encountered the $9,000 level a few hundred times. Undoubtedly, this level seems like the one that matters the most, not just for its “Vegeta memes” but also due to the technical reasons behind it. More often than not, the most popular reason given for “why bitcoin tests this...Read More
‘Bitcoin’ and ‘Ponzi schemes,’ at one point were used interchangeably. When the cryptocurrency first started making waves early in the previous decade, all everyone could talk about was the price. Only a few years after Bitcoin was more than just a ‘pet project’ in a small cypherpunk circle, it skyrocketed to $1,000, giving its early...Read More
What saw Bitcoin recover from $4,000 to $9,000 in Q2 2020 is now returning, much to the dismay of other macroeconomic assets. Two weeks ago, prior to the breakout which took Bitcoin over $12,000 for the first time over a year, the worry for the markets was a rising tide of slumping volatility. Between early...Read More
The relationship between Bitcoin and Ethereum has always been an intriguing one. They are, undoubtedly, two of the market’s most important crypto-assets due to their dominance in the space. Although Ethereum is quite far behind in terms of market cap, in terms of technology, may argue that the altcoin is miles ahead. Owing to the...Read More
After ascending all the way to $12,000 on 1 August, Bitcoin registered its most significant daily pullback since the 8.24 percent drop on 10 June, with BTC depreciating by 10.57 percent yesterday. While such movement did see Bitcoin’s rally stop in its tracks, over the past few hours, the crypto-asset seemed to hold on to...Read More
With the cryptocurrency’s price recovering from yesterday’s crash, Bitcoin finds itself in a pickle with an important resistance preventing its march higher on the charts. With over a billion dollars in positions liquidated, the Open Interest and the volatility have all dried up. While BTC’s price has been slowly trying to head higher, despite it...Read More
Bitcoin’s Sunday surprise was a blow-off, and if similar moves by other asset classes are to go by, it was a positive move. On 2 August, between 0400 and 0500 UTC, Bitcoin’s price dropped by 8 percent in an hour, with many expecting its breakout, which began on 23 July, to have come to an...Read More
After hitting levels [$12,100] last seen a year ago, bitcoin witnessed a crash that dumped the price to $10,559. Not only did this cause liquidation of positions worth a billion-dollar but also reset market sentiment from extremely greedy to greedy. Trading just above $11,000, there seems to be a visible fear among bulls as the...Read More
In addition to Binance going haywire, other exchanges also faced a few abnormal incidents with today’s bitcoin drop. FTX users were among those exchanges that experienced slippage and ADLs. On FTX, users were unable to put up trades or modify existing orders with some experiencing untriggered stops and unnecessary ADLs. The drop that took a...Read More
On Binance, bitcoin quarterly futures hit a high just shy of $100,000 – $99,964. While sudden moves like these aren’t new, it had been forgotten due to the slow, sideways moving price devoid of volatility. With over a billion dollars worth of positions liquidated in a minor $1,400 move by Bitcoin, volatility is back. While...Read More
A week after Bitcoin’s $10,000 resurgence, the first inklings of a reversal, if not a dump, are visible. Between 0400 UTC to 0500 UTC on 2 August, Bitcoin’s price dropped by over $1,000 an 8 percent price drop in the hour. Only a few hours before this dump Bitcoin had broken the $12,000 ceiling. The...Read More
Over the past week, the crypto-market seemed to gain a new lease of life after the world’s largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, went past its crucial resistance at $11k. In fact, 2020 has proved to be, in more ways than one, a key year for digital assets, including Bitcoin. However, as more users find cryptocurrencies and digital...Read More
Bitcoin’s push over $10,000 was long-awaited. After nearly three months of trading flat, Bitcoin jumped out of its most stagnant trading period since March 2019 with an ascent over $10,000. Now, it looks like this move has awakened a sleeping giant that was waiting to pounce on a bullish market. According to a recent report...Read More
Bitcoin‘s price broke out of its stagnant market trend and surpassed its immediate resistance at $10k a few days back. Since then, BTC hasn’t looked back, with the value of the cryptocurrency surging to breach its resistance at $11,400 while reporting a 2020 peak of $11,600. At press time, the world’s largest cryptocurrency had managed...Read More
Bitcoin has not looked back since it surged over $10,000 almost a week ago. Trading at close to $11,500 a pop, the cryptocurrency’s highest price since September 2019, the market is rife with immense trading activity. Thus the question arises – is it likely to sustain? While some would say that this rise from $9,500...Read More
On 27 July 2020, Bitcoin surged by 11% in a single day, a surge that pushed its price from $9,933 to $11,417. This type of surge was last seen in April 2020, a time when BTC surged from $7,700 to $8,900, a 13% surge. However, since then, the price had been moving along with the...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following analysis should materialize over the next 24-hours Bitcoin has been brimming with bullish momentum lately, but the world’s largest digital asset could be reaching the end of its rope. Between 21 July 7:00 UTC and 27 July 22:00 UTC, Bitcoin’s price literally spiked within the parabolic curve illustrated below...Read More
