JP Morgan’s take on Bitcoin turned 360 degrees in 2020. This was understandable, however, as it wasn’t just Bitcoin’s price rally that caught the eye of institutional investors and banks, but it’s decoupling with gold too. According to one of the world’s biggest banking institutions JP Morgan Chase & Co., the rise of cryptocurrencies in...Read More
The current Bitcoin bull run, or more appropriately labeled ‘price rally,’ has been initiated by large investors and institutions, not by retail traders. It is evident from the trade volume and activity on spot exchanges that institutions are buying and HODLing. There are big spot buyers and the correction in Bitcoin’s price, like the recent...Read More
Bitcoin’s price has been in a state of constant fluctuation over the past few weeks, dropping to a low of $17.6k before recovering to climb above $19k, at the time of writing. The drop in price witnessed earlier was a cause for concern for many investors who believed that the market was headed for a...Read More
Bitcoin cycles have evolved over the past decade, a development that has been pretty similar to Bitcoin’s own evolution as an asset. Also obvious is the maturity of not just the market’s investors, but the perception of Bitcoin as an asset class. If 2020 has proved something, however, it is that Bitcoin is a resilient...Read More
Bitcoin’s last 2 quarters in 2020 have been quite volatile. Rather, that has been the case for most of 2020. In fact, each quarter had something important like the Pandemic-induced crash in Q1, the V-shaped recovery in Q2, the institutional buying in Q3, followed by the rapid explosion in price in Q4. While institutions have...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, was hovering in the $17,000-range 24-hours ago. However, the price did seem to have appreciated considerably since. At press time, Bitcoin looked toppy, with its price recorded to be...Read More
The corrections in the U.S stock market earlier this week fueled a fear among many that a pullback in Bitcoin’s price may be incoming too. Such fears were later validated, with the crypto-asset trading below $18,500, at press time. Bitcoin has been in an unfavorable position since it dropped below $19,000. After the price dropped...Read More
After DeFi, “institutional investors” has probably been the buzzword for the crypto-market, especially following the likes of MicroStrategy and Square jumping in. Looking at institutions going on a Bitcoin buying spree, many analysts have had their say on what this means. Popular American computer scientist Paul Graham is the latest one after he tweeted, “Possible...Read More
Michael Saylor’s latest plans to raise cash for investing in Bitcoin may be controversial to the T. MicroStrategy’s treasury strategy is working as planned, and the timing of the move to buy Bitcoin and replace it as the treasury asset may have been the key driver of MicroStrategy’s growth in the first half of the...Read More
Bitcoin’s price has dropped by over 6% in the past seven days. The crypto-asset, at the time of writing, was trading at $18,368, falling fallen to as low as $17,800 before recovering. However, BTC’s press time price was still well below the $19,000-level from earlier in the week. So, where is Bitcoin headed? Is the...Read More
2020 has been an incredible year for many firms trying to incorporate Bitcoin into their larger financial systems. Grayscale took the leap first, in the minds of many, with Coinshares and Bitwise making noise as well. These Crypto-Index Funds are regulated and their main focus has been the market’s institutional investors. For context, Grayscale currently...Read More
After hitting a high of $19,918 on 1 December, Bitcoin has completely stagnated to consolidate between the ranges of $18k and $20k. Yesterday, a low of $17,610 was registered, but a quick bounce back above $18,000 was soon recorded on the charts. With respect to its price, CME’s derivatives market is now going through a...Read More
When MicroStrategy and Michael Saylor invested close to $425 million in Bitcoin back in August-September 2020, the sole purpose was to preserve its cash reserves’ purchasing power by converting it to Bitcoin. While the benefits were initially highly incremental for the company, MicroStrategy seems to be raising its game now. MSTR’s growing capital in Bitcoin...Read More
2020’s week 50 is upon us right now, with Week 49 being rather quiet for Bitcoin from a price perspective. Between 2 December and 8 December, Bitcoin’s price movement was restricted between $19,800 and $18,400. While the movement on the 8th remained the most significant, the cryptocurrency’s price did remain above $18,800 for the 6...Read More
Bitcoin demand is not only expanding among individual traders and crypto enthusiasts, but has also managed to attract institutions, hedge funds, and corporates. Many traditional financing institutions have included Bitcoin in their portfolios and are increasing their hold on Bitcoin. Now that there is less than 2.434 million Bitcoin left to mine, the race to...Read More
Bitcoin has established itself as a profitable investment asset and it is becoming more evident as more institutions flock to include the digital asset in its portfolio. According to Bitcoin Treasuries, companies including, Grayscale, MicroStrategy Inc., Square Inc. together own a sum of 0.888 Million BTC or 888k BTC. This value is expected to only...Read More
Bitcoin’s price seems to be losing its foothold as the price suffered a drop of 5% in the last 8 hours. Considering the situation more of this could follow. How much? Perhaps, an average drop of 30% can be expected, especially during bull runs. Bitcoin Corrections Historically, bitcoin seems to correct during bull runs and...Read More
Why Bitcoin will replace US Dollar as the World’s Reserve Asset is as much a story of the United States Dollar, as it is of Bitcoin. It started when United States GDP was a third of the world’s GDP and even larger when it comes to the manufacturing sector, at the close of the second...Read More
Traders who witnessed Bitcoin’s 80% drop in price following the 2017 Bull Run to ascent from $1000 to new ATH of $19891.99 on Coinbase in 2020 have seen it all. The rally of massive volatility, the quiet rally and the quietest ever rally. Despite the media attention, a certain degree of hype on social media,...Read More
Another weekend for Bitcoin’s price action has passed quietly. The entire week, as Bitcoin’s price hit new ATH, there was the anticipation of the price crossing $20000. There was an increase in percent active supply and the increasing liquidity by whales was balanced by retail and institutional buying. In the past week, the price increased...Read More
With Bitcoin’s price trending closer to $20,000, on-chain analysts are suggesting that an upcoming correction may soon become inevitable. This is a strong possibility, despite the consistent buying and demand generation by institutions and whales. While retail/institutional traders may not be bearish just yet, according to popular on-chain analyst Willy Woo, “Bitcoin on-chain structure saying...Read More
Major cryptocurrencies Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether have all got a mention on the Season 11 premiere of the long-running American comedy-drama television series “Shameless” which features on Showtime. The first episode – ‘This Is Chicago’ shows how Kevin (Steve Howey) is confused about the plight of one cryptocurrency user who says: My Bitcoin. It’s down...Read More
2017, the year of the historic bull run, was also the year of extremes. On the contrary, 2018 was the year of the big drop while 2019 was the year when the brave HODLed and weak hands sold Bitcoin. Source: Coinstats The year 2020, however, may go down in Bitcoin’s history as the year of...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinions of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, briefly tested the $18,500-mark again on 5 December as the king coin continued to consolidate higher up the charts. While the recent collapse down to $16,200 on 26 November...Read More
When Bitcoin’s price hit a new ATH on most cryptocurrency exchanges, traders expected it to hit $20,000 quickly. However, the crypto-asset soon faced a wave of corrections following the same, even as its market cap crossed $354 billion and it became the 7th largest currency in the world. To many, the $20,000-level may seem unattainable...Read More
Bitcoin, at the time of writing, was trading well above $19,000 on the charts. However, while that is a bullish observation, a closer look at Bitcoin’s fundamentals would reveal a contradiction of sorts. Curiously, the active supply of Bitcoin has hit both an ATH and an ATL. This contradictory position is possible entirely due to...Read More
When Bitcoin decoupled from Gold in November 2020, on-chain analysts predicted that it was gearing up to hit a new ATH on the charts. As it happened, that’s exactly what happened. However, the sentiment on the part of the market’s retail traders was mostly mixed after the Bitcoin-Gold correlation dropped so dramatically. The “store of...Read More
It’s been a good few weeks for Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency. Not only did BTC climb to a new ATH recently, but it has also emerged to become the world’s fastest adopted asset. This was recently brought to light by a tweet authored by popular on-chain analyst Willy Woo. The tweet in question compared...Read More
Bitcoin’s rapid institutionalization has raised many eyebrows, around the world. In addition to this, it has also raised the interest and investment of institutional investors, family offices, and HODL waves from retail. In the latest episode of the Pomp Podcast, Raoul Pal takes us to conversations that happened behind closed doors between Macro guys from...Read More
American entrepreneur Erik Voorhees who founded ShapeShift said that any asset manager today who remains ignorant of Bitcoin “needs to seriously check their premises.” He took to Twitter to make this remark after retweeting data shared by analytics platform Messari co-founder Dan McArdle that showed how Bitcoin has outperformed everything over the last ten years....Read More
