So far, April had been a blessing for Bitcoin. The primary cryptocurrency was trading slightly around the $6,000 mark on April 1st, but since then, there was only one way. There is only one disadvantage in this short-term positive trend: Bitcoin price is back to the recent positive correlation with the global stock markets. Satoshi’s...Read More
The Tezos Foundation has collaborated with several Swiss-based cryptocurrency companies to tokenize Bitcoin. Called tzBTC, it gives holders the ability to interact with Tezos smart contracts while pegging to the value of Bitcoin. Tokenized Bitcoin On Tezos Blockchain The Bitcoin Association Switzerland announced launching the tzBTC digital token in a press release shared with CryptoPotato....Read More
Bitcoin’s price is no stranger to volatility and the period between the second half of 2017 and the first half of 2018 is a clear example. The price went from about $2,600 to its all-time high of $20,000 in December 2017 and all the way down to $6,000 in July 2018. At the time, though,...Read More
There’s something curious unfolding in global markets this month. While COVID-19 rages across the planet and the economy has ground to a halt, equities have actually been rallying. Global stock prices have been on their way up for two weeks now. It appears like Wall Street’s doing great. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has increased...Read More
Quick recap: March 12, 2020, following the global markets’ crash, Bitcoin experiencing its worst day ever, while clearing over 50% of its value. Some blamed the BitMEX liquidation system; some thought Bitcoin was going to zero. The daily high, which was recorded on that day, was $7969 on Bitstamp, while the daily low was $3850....Read More
The month of April so far seems bullish for Bitcoin. After starting the month at around $6200, the Bitcoin price quickly elevated to $6600 (April 1st) and built a ‘baseline’ around this price zone. At the same time, $6800 provided a tough resistance from the other side, and most of the time, Bitcoin was trading...Read More
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID19) caused serious turmoil in the global financial markets. According to a report by VanEck Global, an ETF and Mutual Fund Manager, during this crisis so far, gold correlates with Bitcoin increasingly in the short-term. Gold Correlates With Bitcoin Amid Coronavirus Outbreak Gold and Bitcoin are two assets that...Read More
The past days were promising for Bitcoin: After finally succeeding in breaking the $6800 resistance mark, Bitcoin price had seen a decent run of $400 to the reach $7236 as the highest price since the March 12 collapse. As mentioned in our previous price analysis, while Bitcoin was trading around $6700: “we already identify bullish...Read More
Yesterday we analyzed the current situation of BTC’s price. On the 4-hour chart, the symmetrical triangle pattern was about to break-down once reaching the lower ascending trend-line. However, Bitcoin held the support line nicely and since then, surged $600 in just a few hours. The triangle formation indeed broke-out but in favor of the bulls....Read More
Over the past two days, we saw Bitcoin losing momentum following the global markets. After reaching the $6600 resistance, Bitcoin price failed to break the symmetrical triangle as can be seen on the following 4-hour chart. From there, Bitcoin found temporary support upon the $6400 boundary, before continuing the 3-day plunge to the lower angle...Read More
Bitcoin price had a wild weekend: After losing the $6,000 support, Bitcoin plunged onto the next mentioned support level, and since then, saw a decent come-back to the price area the plunge started from. To conclude this, it was a wild ride going back to the same destination. Following our most recent price analysis, we...Read More
After three days of dull price action inside a $200 range ($6600 – $6800), Bitcoin saw a huge plunge back to the $6000 area, more than 10% were lost in a matter of hours. If you followed us here, we mentioned reasons why Bitcoin was looking more bearish than bullish, and we also stated that...Read More
Over the past day, we saw the Bitcoin price trading inside the tight range between $6600 and $6800. A few hours ago, Bitcoin finally seemed to break successfully to the upside touching $7000; however, the primary cryptocurrency got rejected very quickly, plunging $400 immediately back inside the described trading range. Over the past weeks, we...Read More
Two days ago, while Bitcoin was consolidating around the $6000 level, we had anticipated a huge price move coming up. Looking at the following 4-hour chart, we can see that Bitcoin had found support upon the mentioned 4-hour MA-50 line (~$5700, marked pink), and following another Fed’s announcement, broke above the short-term descending trend-line. In...Read More
Over the past three days, we saw Bitcoin breaking above the $6,000 milestone, and even succeeding in breaking the next significant resistance at $6400 for a few hours, including toping above $7K on some exchanges. However, Bitcoin got quickly rejected and retraced back to the $6K range, yes, the same price range from the second...Read More
Is this the day we had been waiting for? Bitcoin completed an 18% price surge over the past 24 hours. But not just that. Yesterday, we mentioned that despite the massive crash in the global markets, Bitcoin’s showing stability above the $5,000 price mark. That stability of yesterday, was the first time after weeks, that...Read More
Quick recap: for the past few weeks, Bitcoin had been following the crashing global markets. While the S&P 500 and Nasdaq lost more than 30% over the past month, Bitcoin followed them but with a little bit of leverage. The primary cryptocurrency is now trading at a 50% discount from the highs of mid-February, when...Read More
While the US stock market saw its steepest one-day sell-off since Black Monday in 1987, Bitcoin saw its steepest one-day sell-off in its ten-year history, just a few days before. But don’t worry, that was institutional money running from everything Thursday. Of course, it ran from the risky cryptocurrency industry. Don’t forget that institutional investors...Read More
The Federal Reserve made an unexpected announcement at 5 PM U.S. Time Sunday afternoon. Along with another $700 billion immediate injections – $500 billion in treasuries and $200 billion in mortgage-back securities, the Fed is cutting the rate to zero. Donald Trump fires all the guns he has at an early stage of the coronavirus...Read More
Bitcoin has tough days. The primary cryptocurrency had lost 40% of its value over the past four days. The fact that the price of Bitcoin is positively correlated with the global stock markets had been a surprise to many in the crypto community, who waited eagerly to see Bitcoin price exploding amid the emerging coronavirus...Read More
It’s safe to say that unless unexpected things happen, this will be the worst week for Bitcoin since 2013. During the second week of December 2013, Bitcoin had seen a plunge from $864 to $382, more than a 50% decline. Those were the days when MT.Gox was the only major Bitcoin exchange out there. Just...Read More
As a seemingly endless stream of reports continues to pour in surrounding the coronavirus, many are becoming increasingly concerned over the effect this global pandemic could have on the global financial system in the future. The outbreak is shaping up to potentially cause one of the worst financial crashes of all time. The current pandemic...Read More
The last few days have been quite terrible as the cryptocurrency market shreds every single gain it has amassed since the start of the year. Bitcoin even slumped to as low as $3,700 for an hour for the first time in 12 months. The price crash left traders in dismay, with many scratching their heads...Read More
This is not the Bitcoin halving the crypto industry was talking about in 2020. The Bitcoin price crashed on the worst day for equities markets in 33 years. The Dow Jones plummeted 9.99% during trading, the S&P 500 lost 9.51%, and the NASDAQ took a 9.43% dive. Even spot gold declined by some 4% Thursday,...Read More
When Satoshi Nakamoto sat down to write the whitepaper of Bitcoin, he (or she) prepared precisely for today’s coronavirus situation. The idea of Bitcoin was born after the latest devastating real-estate financial of 2008. All experts were eyeing this day. However, over the past weeks, Bitcoin is attaching its value to the global markets. This,...Read More
President Donald Trump announced a ban on all travel from Europe Wednesday. The ban will go into effect on Friday at midnight and remain in effect for 30 days. The president did announce an exemption for travel from the United Kingdom. Announcing a rare Oval Office address from Mr. Trump, he said: “After consulting with...Read More
Euro Pacific Capital CEO and chief global strategist Peter Schiff warned the coronavirus recession would be worse than the 2008 financial crisis. Furthermore, in a terrifying tweet Wednesday, the US dollar bear and gold bull diagnosed the underlying problem in both crises. He argued the coronavirus pandemic and the crashing housing market were the pins...Read More
The constant expansion of the coronavirus continues to harm the global economic markets. Monday’s severe stock sell-off pushed the UK to cut the interest rates, a week after the US did the same. As a result, Europe stocks are in the green as of writing these lines. Wall Street’s major indexes opened Wednesday’s trading in...Read More
Bitcoin was rejected on a few occasions near $7,260 and $7,300 against the US Dollar.The price is currently declining and it remains at a risk of more downsides below $7,000.There is a declining channel forming with resistance near $7,180 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken).Ethereum is also struggling below...Read More
Bitcoin price is slowly declining and recently tested $7,100 against the US Dollar.The price is currently recovering, but likely to face hurdles near $7,280 and $7,320.There was a break above a major bearish trend line with resistance near $7,185 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken).The pair might slide further...Read More
