Bitcoin price crashed by around 7.7% as of Thursday after experiencing a similar crash of 9.5% the day before. Unlike yesterday, today’s crash seems to be whales dumping their holdings and this is happening on Coinbase. Bitcoin price crash: What caused it? Source: CryptoQuant Bitcoin whales have begun depositing their holdings on to exchanges since...Read More
After suffering its first weekly loss since September 2020, Bitcoin failed yet again to consolidate its position above the $36,500-mark. From a low of $33,833 on 17 January, Bitcoin rallied to breach the $36,300-$36,500 range on the charts. However, this was brief, and the crypto-asset soon re-traced back under its resistance level. Source: BTC/USD on...Read More
Bitcoin‘s price was trading at $35,500 after a correction of 7% in 24 hours, at press time. However, such a correction might just be the beginning of a much larger correction, one that might push BTC to $25,000. Although a lot of investors are in disbelief about the bull run and are expecting it to...Read More
When it comes to investing in Bitcoin, investors are always trying to calculate a correct entry. Whether it is at the start of a bull run or at the start of a correction, the debate is always on. While the endgame remains to make a profit, the idea of stacking sats is also predominantly based...Read More
When the third halving took place on 11 May 2020, Bitcoin and Gold were correlated. Today, on the 12th day since Bitcoin hit a new ATH on the price charts, Bitcoin and Gold are uncorrelated. The reversal in the said correlation is incredible, but there is a historical precedent here too. After all, this is...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following analysis are the sole opinions of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice Bitcoin’s price was trading above $35,000 at press time, with the cryptocurrency aiming to head higher as it bounces off a consolidation pattern on the charts. This pattern suggests that the consolidation might keep...Read More
Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis found that cryptocurrency-related crimes fell by more than 53% last year and that crypto activity that was connected to crimes was a mere 0.34% of transaction volume or $10 billion worth of transfers. This is still much lower than criminal activity numbers reported in 2019, which represented 2.1% ($21.4 billion) of...Read More
A new survey by Deutsche Bank recorded investors’ opinions on Bitcoin. Respondents were asked specifically about the digital asset as well as electric car company Tesla. More than half of people surveyed (about 56%) now think that Bitcoin and Tesla are more likely to halve than double in value. Source: Twitter A majority of respondents...Read More
Bank of America’s monthly survey revealed that the long position in Bitcoin is the most crowded trade as of January this year. This would be the first time that the leading asset has replaced ‘long tech’ from the first place. Additionally, short US dollar is the third most crowded trade according to the survey. Trade...Read More
Over the past week, a couple of market contradictions shook the Bitcoin industry. After a rally that had been ongoing since Q4 of 2020, BTC finally recorded a weekly loss for the first time since September 2020. However, while the crypto-asset consolidated under the resistance level of $36,500 for a majority of the time, its...Read More
While Bitcoin’s price has more than doubled from its previous all-time high of $19,666 for the first time in almost 3 years, not a lot seems to have changed for India. For a country with 1.35 billion in population and a GDP of $2.7 trillion, getting on board with cryptocurrency aka digital/virtual currency seems to...Read More
Cybersecurity research company Gemini Advisory found that Joker’s Stash, a dark web carding marketplace will reportedly shut down by next month. Their blog carried a note from the infamous marketplace’s administrator who claimed that he was now retiring. The reason behind the sudden decision to close the forum remains unknown. However, Gemini Advisory’s research team believed...Read More
A cryptocurrency trader based in Australia filed a complaint against two local banks in the region for systematic discrimination practices after these entities allegedly closed his bank accounts without issuing any warning. The trader named Allan Flynn has filed for proceedings against commercial banks ANZ and Westpac and wants compensation of about $192,000. Flynn claimed...Read More
Bitcoin price seems ready for a drop leading to increased volatility and a revisit of $30,000 or a drop of 10% to 12% cannot be ruled out. Not just one but many indicators point to the bearish drop for bitcoin in the near term. Bitcoin on-chain indicator The SOPR indicator is a classic on-chain indicator...Read More
The support of top payment giants like PayPal is promising for building the case of mainstream Bitcoin payments. However, Bitcoin’s rapidly increasing price in the USD poses a tough challenge for the adoption of Bitcoin denominated payment systems. A number of altcoins are rallying alongside Bitcoin, and making payments in cryptocurrencies may not be the...Read More
The latest headlines are filled with posts about Bitcoin’s halving and its impact on Bitcoin’s price. These are popular facts and repeated several times as arguments for Bitcoin’s recent price rally. The repetition may have become so cruel, that memes on these facts are doing the rounds on Crypto Twitter. But the real question one...Read More
Neither Bitcoin nor any of the market’s popular altcoins are the best bets to yield maximum returns. Yes, Bitcoin has more than tripled in the last year and yes, it is expected to do something similar over the next bull run, but it won’t do as much as the backbone of the Bitcoin industry –...Read More
The comparison between Bitcoin and Gold is as mainstream as Bitcoin itself. However, despite the decoupling of the two assets, the group of interested and active investors in both is nearly the same and there is an overlap. In fact, traders and analysts on Crypto-Twitter have been going on about the two assets for over...Read More
The ongoing Bitcoin price rally has most traders stopping and staring at their portfolios, refreshing their windows every few minutes to capture the unrealized profit/loss. Understandably, the thrill of the price rally is accompanied by the fear of losing out on unrealized profits. With Bitcoin’s price dropping over the past few trading sessions, several wallets...Read More
While most had high expectations from the crypto-market for the year 2021, it’s safe to say that the market has well and truly exceeded these expectations. Not only did the world’s largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, breach the $40,000-mark, but the industry’s cumulative market cap also went past $1 trillion. Source: CoinMarketCap The market and its largest...Read More
Bitcoin’s rally to its latest ATH in the first week of January may have made the headlines, but what’s in it for your portfolio? Let’s go further – The burning question is, what is the role of HODLers in this bull run and how do they influence the returns on your portfolio? Do they influence...Read More
Bitcoin has been in the news a lot lately, mostly due to its exponential price performance over the past few weeks. However, at the time of writing, BTC was trading at a level that was nearly 8% lower than its ATH of $41,941, based on data from CoinMarketCap. While BTC has repeatedly attempted to breach...Read More
In what is a fairly troubling development, reports have revealed that days before an angry alt-right mob stormed Capitol Hill, many of its activists received payments in Bitcoins. On 8 December, 22 different virtual wallets received a simultaneous transfer of 28.15 Bitcoins, which was worth $500,000 at the time. According to the aforementioned reports, most...Read More
Not long after the President of European Central Bank called Bitcoin a “highly speculative asset” and that it was used to conduct money laundering, Mike Novogratz took to Twitter to criticize the official’s statement about Bitcoin. The Galaxy Digital founder pointed out that over the years, several major banks in Europe had been fined...Read More
Winklevoss twins Cameron and Tyler are thinking about taking their crypto exchange Gemini public. However, the cofounders of the New York-based regulated exchange clarified that they have not finalized the decision of having an initial public offering, yet. President of Gemini, Cameron Winklevoss said in a recent interview that the company would remain open to...Read More
The dropping Bitcoin reserves led to the rally of 2021, breaking the previous ATH and hitting a new high above $41000 level. Bitcoin reserves started dropping in October 2020 and continued well into 2021. When the price crossed $30000, reserves increased to an extent before dropping again. Currently, as the price is above $38000, BTC...Read More
Institutional buying that started when Bitcoin’s price was as low as $19000 has continued well into the $40000 level. Institutions like Grayscale have consistently added to their Bitcoin holdings irrespective of the price rally and the subsequent correction. Based on data from the Coinbase chart, there is a possibility that institutional investors have bought $BTC...Read More
Wallet security exploits have resulted in losses amounting to millions of dollars, which many believe hinders mainstream adoption of Bitcoin and other crypto-assets. Recently, data compiled by Ngrave’s team projected that crypto users’ assets are not as secure as they believe them to be. According to the hardware wallet maker’s ongoing survey on crypto...Read More
With Bitcoin rising up the valuation ladder in 2021, there has been aggressive demand for stablecoins since the first of January. In fact, the collective market cap of all stablecoins, at the time of writing, amounted to ~$33.5 billion, after the supply added $4 billion in the past 12 days alone. Source: Coinmetrics CoinMetrics‘ data...Read More
Bitcoin’s activity on Twitter is edging closer to its 2017 levels, based on data from Arcane Research. In fact, the 7-day average of tweets mentioning Bitcoin is back at its December 2017 high, with the number of Twitter users mentioning Bitcoin already surpassing its old peak, based on data from Arcane Research’s chart on Bitcoin...Read More
