While Bitcoin is surging like there’s no tomorrow, altcoins are doing nothing but bleed. Going by the popular adage “Buy when there’s blood on the streets,” let’s look for an investment opportunity in altcoins since they have been dropping since Bitcoin started its rally. For the purpose of the same, let’s determine if the market’s...Read More
When Elon Musk was breaking Crypto-Twitter with his Bitcoin memes, most retail traders were waiting for this banter to take Bitcoin’s price discovery to the next level. While this did not happen, when observed closely, it can be seen that this interesting Twitter thread is more than just friendly banter between the two billionaires, Saylor...Read More
MicroStrategy broke the silence when it invested in Bitcoin. It changed how institutions viewed Bitcoin from an investment perspective. From skeptics criticizing [critiquing] Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy’s investment decision to the very same people dipping their toes in Bitcoin investments, things have changed for the better in the last quarter. However, was MicroStrategy’s decision good?...Read More
Bitcoin’s price movements are critical to Bitcoin’s adoption and price trend, especially since many new traders are just entering the market on spot exchanges. While seasoned traders may be looking for a place to park funds, make trades, and identify the right exchange that facilitates such a trade, their trade decisions are based on key metrics...Read More
Price discovery beyond $20,000 was a pipe dream for both institutional and retail traders two weeks ago. Now, with Bitcoin trading at $23,511 at the time of writing, there is a lot of anticipation around further price discovery. Interestingly, Bitcoin’s mean transaction volume (2d MA) has fallen significantly in the past 24-hours, with the current...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 has seen a good surge since September began. In fact, the price surge has been more than a hyperbole since 12 December. Although not surprising, this surge could be something to be wary...Read More
Bitcoin’s decoupling with Gold and its inverse relationship with stocks has been covered widely by mainstream media. The missing link is its impact on U.S Government bonds. Previously considered to be a non-issue, the negative yields on government bonds have got on-chain analysts and investors thinking about this perspective. Preston Pysh is one of them,...Read More
Michael Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy and the man who put $800 million in Bitcoin this year, is possibly one of the strongest advocates for the bullish narrative around Bitcoin, despite his skepticism about the same a few years ago. Unsurprisingly, today he is of the opinion that more institutions should make allocations to the crypto-asset,...Read More
With Bitcoin trading above $23,000 emerging to become the new normal, institutions and Bitcoin whales are driving price discovery into previously unchartered territories on the price charts. This doesn’t come as a shock to maxis and on-chain analysts, however, with Willy Woo recently quoted as saying, “$100,000, I would rate as very conservative, probably overly...Read More
What does Bitcoin’s latest hike tell us about its investors? Bitcoin has been in the news for all the right reasons lately. With 2020 drawing to a close, the coin has managed to do a repeat of the 2017 bull run and in the process, it has managed to create a new ATH by quite...Read More
An interesting observation recently made by Willy Woo on the 18th of December 2020 was that over a period of 11.2 years, $1 invested in Gold appreciated to $1.82 whereas Bitcoin appreciated to $2,98,31,200. Now, there is enough literature associated with how Gold and Bitcoin are correlated and how the correlation drops periodically. However, this...Read More
The bulls are here and Bitcoin’s price is once again raging. The market’s top cryptocurrency successfully marked a new all-time high at $23,777 a few days ago. In fact, despite corrections, BTC’s value was continuing to hold above $22k with a press time price of $22,863 and a market cap of $425.68 billion. So, what...Read More
When Bitcoin’s price crossed $23,000, the market volatility dropped. With Bitcoin’s price trading within its newly-discovered price range, it seemed to be closely bound to the $22,500-level. In fact, at the time of writing, Bitcoin was valued at well over $23,000. In such a scenario, $22,300 comes across as the support level, an observation supported...Read More
Only a week after the launch of Apple Pay as a new payment option for Bitcoin purchases on Lumi Wallet, in-wallet transactions have risen by over 200%, according to a report shared with AMBCrypto. The introduction of Apple Pay has reportedly led to a simplification of the crypto-purchase procedure, with the time involved in the...Read More
In a recent interview, Mizuho Securities analyst, Dan Dolev said that nearly 20% of PayPal users have started trading Bitcoin using the payment giant’s latest services. The Japanese investment banking firm surveyed about 400 PayPal users and found that 50% of them reported increased engagement with PayPal’s new bitcoin services. According to this survey, bitcoin...Read More
Mark Cuban, American television personality and entrepreneur, still remains unimpressed by the current Bitcoin rally. In a recent interview, the billionaire entrepreneur believed that a banana had more utility than the cryptocurrency. He said: BTC is what it is, something that enough people have agreed upon is an investable asset. A banana has more utility,...Read More
NiceHash announced completion of its repayment program after almost three years. The firm repaid 4,640 Bitcoins to its users who were targeted in the 2017 hack. The firm had expected to complete reimbursement sooner; however, poor crypto markets made it difficult for the company to do so. The repayment now coincided with the current Bitcoin...Read More
Bitcoin has been in the news lately as prices breached the $23,000-mark, a major psychological level. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong shared a message today about “crypto market rallies.” While the CEO lauded the current rally and how news organizations covered the Bitcoin price surge, he believed that crypto was “a game-changing innovation.” Armstrong urged customers...Read More
It looks like there’s no stopping Bitcoin, at least not today, after the world’s largest cryptocurrency breached the $21,000-mark within hours of breaching the $20,000-mark. At the time of writing, BTC was trading at a price of $21,274, having gained by 9.18% in the last 12 hours. Source: BTC/USD on TradingView The aforementioned developments came...Read More
Some users of two major crypto exchanges – Binance and Coinbase – reportedly experienced technical issues and were unable to log in to their accounts on the exchanges. Confirming the same, CEO of Binance ‘CZ’ took to Twitter to acknowledge the issues that surfaced in the past few hours: Still some latency issues here and...Read More
Kraken has announced that it plans to integrate Lightning Network sometime in the first half of next year and that the exchange was also hiring a team to focus on Lightning infrastructure. At first, Kraken will reportedly begin its Lightning support with API access-only withdrawals. Following this, Kraken will focus on user-interface access withdrawals and,...Read More
Grayscale Investments caught the media’s attention this week, after breaking above $10 Billion in digital assets under management. Interestingly, as Grayscale investment’s news broke the Internet, the trade volume on spot exchanges cooled off dropping below the $550 million price level based on data from Skew. BTC Aggregate Daily Volume || Source: Skew Retail traders...Read More
Bitcoin’s dominance is one of the biggest drivers behind its institutional interest and mainstream adoption. However, in anticipation of an altcoin rally, it was observed that Ethereum and XRP’s dominance rose 1.1% and 2.6% respectively, based on data from CoinGecko’s report. Against Bitcoin’s gradual price rally, Ethereum’s price increased by over 50% in November and...Read More
In an update that was sent to shareholders about the company’s performance this year, Ruffer Investment Company revealed its new Bitcoin investment strategy. Ruffer allocated what is currently worth approximately 2.5% of its multi-strategies fund to Bitcoin. This amounts to a $15 million purchase according to Alex Krüger an economist and a crypto analyst. However, the...Read More
American businessman and best-selling author of “Rich Dad Poor Dad,” Robert Kiyosaki, took to Twitter today to state that the oldest and leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin as well as precious metals such as gold and silver, had a “bright future.” He also explained why he thought Bitcoin will soon be heading toward the $50,000 range in...Read More
When Gold’s price drops, does Bitcoin have something to do with it? Gold’s price dropped by over 1.5% today while Bitcoin was down by over 2%. Over the previous week, Gold’s price dropped by 0.69%, while Bitcoin’s price was down by 0.84%. While things are different over longer periods, both these assets are different. From...Read More
This article isn’t going to be one that talks about bitcoin’s deflationary model, its store of value, and how it is an uncorrelated asset that acts as a hedge in case of a crash in the traditional market. The article also doesn’t talk about bitcoin’s superior returns as compared to the long-standing assets in the...Read More
Cynthia Lummis, an American politician who is the US Senator-elect from Wyoming, believes that Bitcoin will be crucial in the event that the fiat system crashes down. In a recent episode of the “What Bitcoin Did” podcast, Lummis told Peter McCormack: If we reach the point where we have overspent so much that things start...Read More
Ihor Kolomoyskiy, a Cypriot-Ukrainian billionaire business oligarch, and former governor of one of Ukraine’s provinces, is reportedly running a Bitcoin mining operation at a steel factory in Kentucky. The factory, CC Metals & Alloys (CCMA) is owned by the Ukrainian tycoon Ihor Kolomoyskiy and his business partner Hennadiy Boholyubov. An anonymous former employee of the...Read More
Bitcoin’s consolidation phase continues to take place at a higher trading range, with the price climbing back above $19,000 again. In fact, every time BTC has gone down below the $19k-mark, bearish concerns have resurfaced across the industry. Source: Coinstats This is the reason why the price re-discovering its position above $19k again is a...Read More
