After a stellar two weeks that saw the cryptocurrency hit an ATH of $41,941 on the charts, Bitcoin’s price corrected to fall to the $34,000-level. With Bitcoin valued at $34,606 at the time of writing, it is worth noting that this market cycle during this bull season has largely been a case of two steps...Read More
Bitwise Asset Management, a leading provider of crypto-index funds and ETF trends, is in the news today after it published a survey revealing how financial advisors around the United States feel about crypto. In the eyes of many, the survey’s findings validate the contention that cryptocurrencies have gone mainstream. The survey in question found that...Read More
Ever since business intelligence firm, MicroStrategy, invested $425 million of its treasury funds into Bitcoin last year, the company and its CEO have been lauded for supposedly driving mainstream BTC adoption. The onset of the Bitcoin rally allowed MicroStrategy to take advantage of market conditions and increase the value of its BTC holdings. At the...Read More
With Bitcoin trading under the $34,000 mark at press time, analysts at Fundstrat Global shed new light on the asset’s current price movement. According to David Grider at Fundstrat, BTC’s recent lows mean a temporary and healthy correction before prices resume to main market trends. Soon after BTC surged to $40,000, experts in the field...Read More
2020 will be remembered for a host of reasons, with Bitcoin volatility being one of them. After scaling up to its all-time high index during the March 2020 collapse, BTC volatility remained under nominal levels for the rest of the year. On average, Bitcoin’s volatility was lower than the S&P 500 and even Tesla, in...Read More
After making a public announcement about its new Bitcoin investment strategy, UK-based Ruffer Investment’s Chairman today detailed the reason behind the company’s 2.5% allocation of its multi-strategies fund to Bitcoin. According to Chairman Jonathan Ruffer, Bitcoin is an emerging store of value. He based his claim on the firm’s research that assessed “the danger that...Read More
The last seven days have been tumultuous for the market’s leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, with BTC climbing to touch a new all-time high of $41,941, before falling to a low of $30,305 just two days later. While the price has since consolidated, with the crypto priced at $35,000, at press time, who were the major profit-takers...Read More
After a significant period of swing action, Bitcoin, at the time of writing, was finally consolidating near the $35,000-mark. This was a relief for many, especially since in the last 48 hours, the cryptocurrency’s price dropped from $41,000 to a lower range of $32,000. While some investors feared the worst, further drawdowns were not seen...Read More
Whether Bitcoin is heading up or crashing face-first in the market, the community is always curious about its short-term future. This was the case as after having dropped down to approx. $32,000 on the price charts, Bitcoin managed to recover a position near $36,000, at press time. While turbulence is the word of the day...Read More
Bitcoin has seen unprecedented growth over the last 365 days. And yet, what must not be forgotten here is that the Bitcoin community that was formed during the 2018 bear cycle is very different from the one during the pre-2017 rally. Investors today are well-informed, financially literate enough to understand what they are getting into,...Read More
With COVID-19’s latest mutant strain filling hospital beds all around the world, it’s not surprising that people are anxious to get vaccinated. However, the administration of vaccines isn’t something that will happen overnight, especially since only a few candidates have been approved yet. It’s no wonder then that quite a few people are getting desperate....Read More
Longhash revealed that Bitcoin price predictions for “the end of 2020” were more accurate than where crypto influencers said the asset’s price would be at the beginning of 2020. The new study was based on media reports, which included predictions from 17 prominent figures from the crypto economy. These people specifically predicted prices at the...Read More
Global Chief Investment Officer of financial services company Guggenheim Partners, Scott Minerd, stated that amid Bitcoin’s parabolic rise that saw new ATHs of over $40k, the asset was “unsustainable in the near term.” He claimed that the digital asset’s price was “vulnerable to a setback”. He added: “The target technical upside of $35,000 has been...Read More
UK regulator, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) advised investors to be aware of certain, unnamed firms that offer investments in crypto assets that “promise high returns.” According to FCA, investing in cryptocurrencies, or “investments and lending” connected to the assets “involves taking very high risks with investors’ money.” On 11 January, the regulator stated: If consumers...Read More
In what would be a crypto-dream come true, a student claimed to have found decade-old private keys to a crypto account that held 127 Bitcoins; he is now a millionaire. On 22 December 2020, the holder apparently stumbled upon the keys in question on an old computer and apparently sold all 127 Bitcoin. The student...Read More
Bitcoin price is currently facing a correction that has caused the crypto asset to drop a whopping 20% in the past 24 to 48 hours. This drop has caused liquidation worth more than $2 billion. At press time, bitcoin is testing the support at $33,900 while also being in a state of limbo. Bitcoin 4-hour...Read More
Bitcoin has surged a whopping 100% in the last 30 days, however, the recent crash might indicate that the top is in, or at least an interim top. While the investors were FOMO-ing, bitcoin’s on-chain indicators flashed sell-signals. The main reason why this crash took place is due to bitcoin miners. In fact, bitcoin’s recent...Read More
The alt season of 2017 was an accessory to Bitcoin’s bull run. Once Bitcoin’s price rallied to a new ATH, investment started pouring in for altcoin projects. This meant there wasn’t much independence in altcoin rallies. Besides, short-term BTC tops were followed by altcoin rallies as investment flowed in and out faster, in altcoins. However,...Read More
Bitcoin isn’t the only cryptocurrency in the market’s good books right now. In fact, Ethereum is bullish too, with the world’s largest altcoin going past $1,300 on the charts weeks after plans for ETH 2.0 went underway. Look beyond the two What about the rest of the market though? Well, you have your Bitcoin, and...Read More
Bitcoin, at the time of writing, was priced at just under $40,500. In fact, just over 24 hours ago, the world’s largest cryptocurrency was hovering under the $42,000-mark. Let that sink in – $42,000! Just over a month ago, the cryptocurrency was valued at $18,500, with the all-important question on people’s minds being – Will...Read More
With the recent spike in Bitcoin’s price, its market capitalization is nearly 7% that of Gold. On-chain analysts and crypto influencers on Twitter have been calling for Gold Flippening and this could be the first step in that direction. Back in October 2020, when Bitcoin’s network momentum was increasing steadily, Bitcoin’s correlation with Gold was...Read More
As Bitcoin’s price rallies there are a few traders wishing for one last price drop so they can fill their bags. This isn’t what retail traders would conventionally ask for, but back in 2017, there were nearly 7 opportunities for buying more Bitcoin, before the price skyrocketed to the ATH. 2020 didn’t exactly see a...Read More
Bitcoin’s market cap, briefly, went past Tesla’s, as the cryptocurrency’s price surged to a new ATH of $41,940. Despite BTC falling at press time owing to a wave of corrections, bullish sentiments claim Bitcoin will be heading towards higher figures amid the U.S dollar’s weakness and growing institutional demand. While some metrics anticipate a coming...Read More
With Bitcoin touching new ATHs every other day, many have an opinion about how high the world’s largest cryptocurrency might go. Morgan Creek Digital’s Anthony Pompliano is one of them, with the exec recently sharing some thoughts on where Bitcoin will be heading, especially in comparison with other assets. In an interview with CNBC FastMoney,...Read More
When the volatility in the cryptocurrency market is high enough to gain over 12% in price in 24 hours, there is a persistent fear of making mistakes. Bitcoin’s price chart has broken nearly all ceilings to hit the new ATH of $41780 on most top exchanges. While price discovery beyond the new ATH is yet...Read More
While Bitcoin’s price nosedived by 17% on Monday, at press time, it had recovered considerably, with the cryptocurrency noting gains of 10.82% in a single 24-hour window. These statistics are not enough, however, considering Bitcoiners’ activity on exchanges – their buying and selling patterns, their compulsions, and their withdrawal capacity. Along those lines, Bitcoin exchange...Read More
Galaxy Digital founder and CEO, Mike Novogratz cautioned investors because he believed that Bitcoin prices are currently correlated to risk assets, at least in the short run. He sees the digital asset’s prices falling instead of increasing if S&P stocks go down. In a recent interview at CNBC’s Squawk Box, the billionaire executive predicted: If...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
Since December 2020, Bitcoin price has become synonymous with all-time highs. The coin remained true to this trend and hit another ATH at $40k on 07 January 2021. The largest cryptocurrency has surged over 35% year-to-date. The digital asset has been in the overbought zone for a while. With the existing CME gaps, BTC has...Read More
Amidst Bitcoin’s increasing activity, the idea of a short-term top is lost like noise. What must be remembered, however, is that a short-term Bitcoin top is still likely, if and when inflows from institutions like GrayScale drop. With Bitcoin trading at $37,290 at press time, the premium on exchanges like Coinbase is not as significant....Read More
