The aggregate open interest in Bitcoin futures is up 43% since the beginning of October. Based on data from Skew, cyclical drops in Bitcoin’s open interest on top derivatives exchanges occur every 45-50 days. BTC Futures Aggregated open interest || Source: Skew In the past year there were 3 peaks of open interest above $5.5...Read More
Bitcoin equaled its 2019 highs by retesting $13,880 over the past 24-hours. While most of the market is currently rejoicing Bitcoin‘s current price of $13,000-$14,000, there might be a little bit of unrest between CME Futures and Options traders. A bullish trend can never be bad for the derivatives market but at the moment, CME...Read More
While Altcoins are struggling to improve by a buck, Bitcoin registered its new 2020 high recently. Leading a serious sense of awakening in the space, the developments elsewhere have been instrumental as well. However, keeping price out of the picture, Bitcoin’s demand is now improving in a multi-directional facet, here’s how. Investment Demand and Fundamental...Read More
From Microstrategy’s $500 Million investment in Bitcoin to PayPal’s integration of crypto, in the past three months, we have seen it all. November 2020 is unlike any month since 2018. Bitcoin is trading above $13k and the top 10 altcoins have gained 10-12% in the past week. Additionally, BTC, ETH, and USDT reserves are the...Read More
As governments across the world stipulate the launch of CBDCs, crypto Twitter is exploding with chatter about the bullish sentiment in Bitcoin. While the launch of a CBDCs is exciting, given that they are digital currencies, the fundamental difference is the centralization. In an interesting thread on Crypto Twitter, Global Macro Investor Raoul Pal commented...Read More
The Crypto Fear and Greed Index stood at 56 as Bitcoin held onto the $11,300 price level. The narrative of “Bitcoin is a hedge against inflation” was just one of many reasons that giants in the financial services sector or other investors acquired Bitcoin. Bitcoin serving no “singular” purpose, but multiple ones were bullish for...Read More
Will Ethereum Soar as it happened before? The much-awaited bitcoin rally occurred with the price crossing $11000 and recording $11,384 at the press time with a gain of 4.5 percent in 24 hours. This surge is speculated mainly due to Jack Dorsey announcing Square purchasing Bitcoin and probably also due to the US announcing some...Read More
Have you been missing the price action in Bitcoin markets across exchanges lately? Based on WooBull’s Bitcoin volatility chart, 60-day volatility is 5.65 and 90-day volatility is 8.95. The recent drop in volatility can be attributed to the reduced inflow of Bitcoin into exchanges. Bitcoin Volatility || Source: Woobull Charts Trade volume on spot exchanges...Read More
Bitcoin is once again testing the $10,700 level of resistance after witnessing a 0.8% drop in the afternoon session. However, with an overall upward trend maintained another price surge could be expected. Dash maintained a neutral view, as consolidation possibilities became clearer from its technical indicators that may hold true for the next few days. ...Read More
The $3 Trillion Hedge Fund industry is likely to suffer more blow-ups than the 2008 financial crisis in the next few quarters. In the midst of the pandemic, hedge funds lost 7-8% in a month in March 2020. This drop left the 2008 crisis behind. The resulting dynamics have affected Bitcoin’s price and traders’ portfolios....Read More
A total of $29.85 billion has been erased from Bitcoin’s market capitalization since the last peak on August 18, 2020. This decline has led to speculation if the ongoing market is bullish and wild price swings have come from BitMEX or other top exchanges, or is it bearish. Bitcoin’s price is in the $10.3-$10.6k range...Read More
Bitcoin‘s price has moved an awful lot in the past 24-hours but the entire community was on market watch. With analysts tracking different metrics and changes in volume, CryptoQuant CEO observed a bit of activity from the whale’s side, or dare I say, a lack of activity. Ki Yong Ju indicated on twitter that the...Read More
In light of rising institutional interest and Bitcoin’s press time RoI of 53.17% YTD, it may be the right time to evaluate what comes after 60/40. Once the mantra of Wall Street Bulls, 60/40 is now a passé strategy. Allocating 60% broadly to stocks and 40% to bonds assured relatively good returns with low-risk exposure...Read More
Singapore authorities have sentenced a man for robbing a Bitcoin investor of S$365,000 (U.S $267,097) in cash, to three years in prison, and 12 strokes of the cane yesterday, according to a report in The Straits Times. The accused, Jaromel Gee Ming Li, 29 pleaded guilty to engaging in a conspiracy to commit robbery along...Read More
Hodling as a strategy to drive up prices is still as relevant as 2016 and early 2017. A third of UK companies had stockpiled Bitcoin in 2016, well ahead of the anticipated bull run. Their reason was protection against hacking and ransomware attacks, however, the risk is higher with Bitcoin’s involvement. This Hodling incident was...Read More
A terrible past week saw the largest digital asset take a massive hit on its apparent bull run. Bitcoin, as we speak had dropped down by $2000 in a span of 48-hours, dropping from $12,048 to $9890 during the 1st week of September. At press time, Bitcoin was valued at $9954 but speculations were still...Read More
Stablecoins have added $100 million a day in market capitalization over the past three months. Tether has contributed to this market cap with a trading volume that is 1.84 times that of Bitcoin as of September 7, 2020. However, this is only the tip of the iceberg. Tether reserves on exchanges, that were primarily used...Read More
Bitcoin is currently nestled right above $10,000, playing a game of tug-of-war with the resistance. Although it briefly went under $10k over the past hour, there is a feeling none of the price positions are permanent at the moment. With price exhibiting extreme turbulence, market sentiments were consequently changing as well on certain exchanges. Source:...Read More
A judge in the Seoul Central District Court today announced a ruling regarding a lawsuit filed by three users of Bithumb Korea who claimed $126,000 and $38,000 for damages citing data leaks during a 2017 Bithumb hack. The ruling is said to hold Bithumb partially liable for the damages claimed by the users. Local news...Read More
Bitcoin crossed $12,000 and slid under the range, yet again. Speculation with respect to an imminent bull run is almost unavoidable at the moment. With every key metric turning plush green every day, for more proponents, the next big rally for Bitcoin is seemingly around the corner. Bitcoin’s Short-Term Holder metric conveyed the same sentiment at...Read More
U.S government agency, CFTC or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, today charged 20 entities, among which some were crypto traders and exchanges, for making false claims of having CFTC registration and National Futures Association (NFA) membership. These are mandatory registrations that allow exchanges to offer services related to trading in digital assets, derivatives, and forex...Read More
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency research development group, Chaincode Labs has hired developer and co-founder of Blockstream, Pieter Wuille, who will now work on protocol improvements to Bitcoin. The coder and engineer posted a tweet in which he said he would continue to collaborate with the research team at Blockstream. Very excited to announce I’m joining Chaincode...Read More
BTC futures were first launched in December 2017, and their initial performance was contrary to the hype that surrounded it. Market expectations ranged from a sudden climb in BTC spot price to increase liquidity on spot exchanges. However, the two most popular Bitcoin futures exchanges – CME and CBOE faced two different fates. Before CME’s...Read More
Daemon Technologies, a firm based in Hong Kong, will now drive the adoption of Stacks technology to support cryptocurrency mining communities in Asia according to its launch tweet. Excited to announce my next chapter in the @blockstack and #stacks ecosystem! https://t.co/JRdZPeDwhi — Xan Ditkoff (@XanDitkoff) August 31, 2020 The firm stated that Asian mining communities were...Read More
At the time of writing, Bitcoin seemed to have briefly reclaimed the $11,500-mark, before dipping into the mid-$11,400’s, again. The world’s largest cryptocurrency showed some bullish signals on the charts, however, and could reclaim $11,800 if buyers seize control. Similarly, IOTA appeared to have broken out of its downtrend and looked ready to initiate an...Read More
Theory Behind $500K Bitcoin Bitcoin price prediction is the most desired topic for most of the crypto followers, and also the most-watched too. The very first reported Bitcoin Billionaires, Winklevoss brothers, puts out the most bullish ever prediction. The logic behind the prediction is pretty uncomplicated, he believes Bitcoin would overtake the market by surpassing...Read More
SBI Holdings, a financial services company based in Japan announced addition of CFDs for premiere cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and XRP. The trading will begin on 31 August on SBI FX which is SBI Holdings’ retail forex brokerage platform. These contracts for differences or CFDs allow traders to settle the differences between the...Read More
Since the start of 2020, Bitcoin market cap dominance has been challenged valiantly by the altcoins. Their performance, led by the likes of Ethereum, Chainlink, and Cardano, cannot be undermined, and neither can DeFi’s growth be ignored. Source: Arcane Research According to Arcane Research, Bitcoin’s dominance is currently at a yearly low since amassing a 70%...Read More
Are these Surging Defi Tokens Bitcoin Competitors? The demand for Defi expanded as Decentralized Finance which is an Ethereum-based blockchain platform designed for lending has skyrocketed in recent days. Specifically, the price of one Defi tokens, YFI has also outperformed the trading value of the largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. Moreover, a wave of Defi projects have...Read More
Back in May 2019, Bitcoin started at $4000 and came close to $14000 however the momentum could not be sustained and there was a subsequent fall in the price. There were signs of a bull run in the first half of 2020 in anticipation of the upcoming halving and the event acted as a potential...Read More
