After an action-packed week, Bitcoin is trading at $35468 after having endured a flash crash. However, the price action left traders asking why the flash crash in Bitcoin took place? Also, does this mean the rally is over and it was over-extended? As per the data, there may have been excessive speculation in Bitcoin’s price,...Read More
Neither Bitcoin nor any of the market’s popular altcoins are the best bets to yield maximum returns. Yes, Bitcoin has more than tripled in the last year and yes, it is expected to do something similar over the next bull run, but it won’t do as much as the backbone of the Bitcoin industry –...Read More
The comparison between Bitcoin and Gold is as mainstream as Bitcoin itself. However, despite the decoupling of the two assets, the group of interested and active investors in both is nearly the same and there is an overlap. In fact, traders and analysts on Crypto-Twitter have been going on about the two assets for over...Read More
The ongoing Bitcoin price rally has most traders stopping and staring at their portfolios, refreshing their windows every few minutes to capture the unrealized profit/loss. Understandably, the thrill of the price rally is accompanied by the fear of losing out on unrealized profits. With Bitcoin’s price dropping over the past few trading sessions, several wallets...Read More
Ethereum was valued at $1,170 at the time of writing, with the world’s largest altcoin continuing to consolidate as it attempted to surge to a new ATH on the charts. However, Ethereum reserves on exchanges have been dropping. Based on data from Glassnode, in the past 2 days alone, reserves have dropped by over 10%....Read More
Tether’s market cap hit $25 billion today, with Bitcoin trading below $40,000 on the price charts. In fact, the stablecoin has been one of the most traded assets in all of crypto, with its trading volume surpassing even that of Bitcoin. Source: CoinMetrics Tether’s growth was stupendous in 2020, with the stablecoin enjoying a 72%...Read More
Following their January 1st announcement, the Navcoin Core team has made available the final version of the Navcoin Core 6.0 binaries, which includes support for its new private coin xNAV based on their self-developed blsCT cryptographic protocol. The latest release of the privacy-focused cryptocurrency brings improvements to governance, and security, and also allows Navcoin to...Read More
Bitcoin’s rally to its latest ATH in the first week of January may have made the headlines, but what’s in it for your portfolio? Let’s go further – The burning question is, what is the role of HODLers in this bull run and how do they influence the returns on your portfolio? Do they influence...Read More
In what is a fairly troubling development, reports have revealed that days before an angry alt-right mob stormed Capitol Hill, many of its activists received payments in Bitcoins. On 8 December, 22 different virtual wallets received a simultaneous transfer of 28.15 Bitcoins, which was worth $500,000 at the time. According to the aforementioned reports, most...Read More
The dropping Bitcoin reserves led to the rally of 2021, breaking the previous ATH and hitting a new high above $41000 level. Bitcoin reserves started dropping in October 2020 and continued well into 2021. When the price crossed $30000, reserves increased to an extent before dropping again. Currently, as the price is above $38000, BTC...Read More
With Bitcoin rising up the valuation ladder in 2021, there has been aggressive demand for stablecoins since the first of January. In fact, the collective market cap of all stablecoins, at the time of writing, amounted to ~$33.5 billion, after the supply added $4 billion in the past 12 days alone. Source: Coinmetrics CoinMetrics‘ data...Read More
Bitcoin’s activity on Twitter is edging closer to its 2017 levels, based on data from Arcane Research. In fact, the 7-day average of tweets mentioning Bitcoin is back at its December 2017 high, with the number of Twitter users mentioning Bitcoin already surpassing its old peak, based on data from Arcane Research’s chart on Bitcoin...Read More
After crossing the $1,300-mark on the 10th of January 2021 to touch $1,339 on the price charts, Ethereum fell. However, while ETH has since recovered, the said recovery has been slower than anticipated, with the latest correction in Bitcoin’s prices possibly being a reason for the delay. In fact, Ethereum’s correlation with Bitcoin has always...Read More
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
GateHub, a U.K-based hot wallet company that allows users to store and trade cryptocurrencies on its platform, has come out in support of Ripple and XRP amidst the latter’s legal troubles with the United States’ SEC. According to a statement released by the platform, GateHub will continue to list XRP until the SEC’s complaint against...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
Chainlink was one of the top performers last year before Bitcoin and Ethereum stole the show in Q4 of 2020. While the altcoin has managed to retain a position above $10 for a majority of the last 6 months, it hasn’t really participated in the market’s price rally over the past few weeks. Interestingly, the...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
Popular crypto-exchange Bakkt recently announced its plans to go public via a SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company), with an initial valuation of over $2 billion. This deal would make Bakkt the first-ever publicly traded crypto-company, a development that would be an important milestone for the industry. With the Coinbase IPO soon to follow, many analysts...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 value of Litecoin is currently at a range last witnessed during the 1st week of May 2018. A price above $185 can be dated back to March 2018, so LTC was testing major resistance levels. The week on week performance since 14th December has been exceptional and its price recovery is leading to positive...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
Most Bitcoin price predictions by technical and on-chain analysts on Crypto Twitter are pointing towards further price discovery beyond $41000 and top on-chain analyst Willy Woo commented on this debate in a twitter thread arguing that BTC may never ever see the $20k price range again, as it currently settles above the $40k level. Source:...Read More
The price of XRP, one of the world’s largest altcoins, has been rather volatile over the last couple of months. While for a brief time in late November 2020 hodlers did expect XRP’s prices to surge, all hope was lost after the Securities Exchange Commission sued Ripple for an illegal securities offering. Not only did...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
The 2021 alt season may have kicked off with Ethereum’s high OI. Currently, the open interest in Ethereum is higher than $3.5 Billion. It is a rare occurrence that a bullish trend emerges so clearly in Ethereum, but Bitcoin’s price rally has supported the trend. During the past weekend, the OI broke all records and...Read More
The price of Ripple’s native crypto, XRP has seen much volatility over the last couple of months. Holders expected a late November 2020 surge in XRP prices, but all hope was lost after United States Securities Exchange Commission sued Ripple for an illegal securities offering, calling into question the status of the crypto. Many have...Read More
