March 2020 became truly historic for bitcoin miners – bitcoin hashrate exceeded 136,24 EH/s. The block release interval has been reduced to 7 minutes from the default of 10 minutes resulting in the situation when the expected order of block release has accelerated in more than 100 blocks. One of the upcoming mining trends is...Read More
The altcoin market continued to see red as Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, traded just under the $11,000-mark, with an eye on $11,200. Further down the crypto-ladder, Tron has been trending south recently, with TRX likely to continue to do so, alongside Algorand. Compound, however, noted a bullish divergence and a bounce can be expected...Read More
Bitcoin and Ethereum have long been the two most-popular cryptocurrencies in the market. While Bitcoin has remained top of the charts, for most of the time, Ethereum has been the cryptocurrency following it. This, despite the fact that a number of altcoins have taken a jab at ETH’s position over the years. Spoiler – None...Read More
The Total Value Locked figures for DeFi have reached $9.76B. In fact, over the past 90 days, the space has unlocked 477.5% in growth, with the same showing no signs of stopping. While the SushiSwap incident did contribute to a dip in DeFi’s TVL, there was near-instant recovery, with the figures surging back to its...Read More
Chainlink slipped beneath yet another important level, with the crypto likely to post further losses over the next week or two. Further down the cryptocurrency charts, Polkadot and Decred‘s movements suggested that the bears were continuing to dominate the crypto-market. Chainlink [LINK] Source: LINK/USD on TradingView The Awesome Oscillator registered bearish momentum for LINK. Using...Read More
To the investment world, Bitcoin just doesn’t make sense. An asset with no financials, no quarterly earnings reports, no management to speak for it on investor calls, no valuations, no annual report, no head office, nothing. How does one value something like this in order to invest in it? There’s a simple answer – They...Read More
XRP, at the time of writing, was showing no signs of price movement in either direction in the near-term. Similarly, Cosmos was likely to be neutral or bearish, until overall market conditions took a turn towards the bullish side. Dogecoin, the popular meme-coin, was also stagnant across its price charts. XRP Source: XRP/USD on TradingView...Read More
MicroStrategy made a huge splash when it chose Bitcoin as its Primary Treasury Reserve Asset, a move, the implications of which, are yet to sink in among many in the crypto-community. In fact, MicroStrategy Founder and CEO Michael Saylor invested a massive $500M off its balance sheet in Bitcoin. The fact that Michael got acquainted...Read More
While Bitcoin briefly spiked to climb to $11,179 on the charts, it had fallen to trade at $10,944, at press time. A rising Bitcoin, accompanied by rising Bitcoin dominance, showed that altcoins were overextended in the month of August and are now either retracing gains made or consolidating for a next move upwards. Litecoin was...Read More
As of 20 September, Bitcoin’s difficulty has been adjusted by ~11.35%, with the hash rate subsequently hitting a new ATH of 143m TH/s. This was the largest positive adjustment in the year 2020, and its implications might not be as bullish as one would expect. While an increase in hash rate leads to an increase...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article should not be taken as investment advice as it is the sole opinion of the writer Bitcoin’s rise from $10,000 to $11,000 was slow, but steady. However, of late, the market’s bulls seem to have run out of steam. The outlook for Bitcoin on the medium to long-term...Read More
Bitcoin Cash was trading with very low volatility as its traders appeared to be waiting on the sidelines for the market to make a move. Further down the cryptocurrency ladder, IOTA and DASH could be headed lower, with the cryptos lacking any momentum in the short-term. Bitcoin Cash [BCH] Source: BCH/USD on TradingView Bitcoin Cash...Read More
Binance Coin has registered an amazing rally over the last few months. However, by the looks of it, the aforementioned rally has reached its destination and the cryptocurrency’s price may be due for a drop soon. With 1 BNB trading at $26.95, at the time of writing, the chances of BNB heading down the charts...Read More
Tezos continued on its established path to the downside, with XTZ showing no signs of recovery, at the time of writing. Waves made strong gains in August, however, at press time, it showed a lack of momentum in the near-term, while generally trending south over the month. Zcash flashed a bullish signal, but the market...Read More
CoinEx, a global cryptocurrency exchange service provider, is the first to have listed OneSwap’s ONES token, while also launching the Initial Trade Offering (ITO) event. OneSwap is a fully decentralized exchange protocol on smart contracts. Lately, it has attracted a lot of attention in the DeFi world, because it combines the automated market makers (AMM)...Read More
When it comes to the altcoin market, the past few months have shown how important a cryptocurrency Ethereum is. With DeFi growing substantially in 2020, the gains have been felt by ETH in many ways. While ETH has miles to go before it can challenge the market cap and dominance of Bitcoin, its remarkable growth...Read More
What’s the tipping point for Bitcoin Futures on top derivatives exchanges like the CME, an exchange that has recorded a daily trading volume of over $300M and Open Interest of over $400M, consistently, for the past 3 months. Source: Skew Well, a small shift in Open Interest or trading volume can have a cascading effect...Read More
Tron was observed to have hit a strong zone of resistance, before being rejected and pushed to the downside, at the time of writing. In fact, such bearish momentum appeared likely to continue for TRX. At a time when Ethereum was increasingly being criticized for high Gas fees and a congested network, it could have...Read More
Bitcoin’s use-cases have evolved quite a bit over the past decade. For many investors, the right amount of exposure to the crypto-market and assets like Bitcoin can be extremely useful as a hedge, especially when compared to traditional assets like the S&P, Gold, etc. Compared to the latter assets, Bitcoin has also been able to...Read More
Stellar Lumens was facing continuous bearish pressure on the charts and looked likely to head further south, at the time of writing. On the contrary, NEM exhibited a strong bullish trend in the near-term while Maker showed signs of bullishness as well. Stellar Lumens [XLM] Source: XLM/USD on TradingView The momentum was strongly bearish with...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
In the cryptocurrency world, every sign is a bullish sign. From China getting into blockchain, to Facebook launching its own cryptocurrency, to Donald Trump tweeting about Bitcoin, nearly everything can be construed to be a sign of the upcoming bull run. Needless to say, not all of these signs actually have any backing behind it....Read More
After surging to new local highs last week, Binance Coin retraced some of its gains recently. In fact, it looked poised for a drop in the short-term, despite the fact that the demand for the crypto-asset has grown as more DeFi projects commenced operations on Binance’s Smart Chain. EOS continued to trade just beneath its...Read More
XRP took a substantial hit in terms of its price this month, with the cryptocurrency falling on the charts in early-September on the back of Bitcoin’s fall. However, the past week has illustrated a determined XRP, one with strong bullish momentum as it tried to recover its previous losses. At press time, XRP was being...Read More
Cardano formed a bearish pattern on the charts as it braced for another dip in its price. The bearish pressure on the crypto-asset abated briefly, but sellers once more stepped in at a level of resistance to effect a slide for ADA. Crypto.com Coin, on the other hand, formed a bullish pattern. Ontology also displayed signs...Read More
Litecoin’s price has had to endure a period of consolidation over the past week. On 12 September, the cryptocurrency’s price fell by close to 8 percent from $51 to close to $47 and since then, Litecoin has been struggling to recover its losses. However, while LTC might be gaining some positive momentum, it may note...Read More
DeFi token transactions continued to congest Ethruem’s network as Etherscan showed that addresses related to Uniswap had guzzled a significant amount of Gas over the past 24 hours. At the time of writing, Ethereum’s charts pointed to a likely drop. While on-chain metrics made a strong case in support of an Ethereum slide, it must...Read More
2020 saw Ethereum [ETH] briefly take over Bitcoin’s lead in the market. However, this growth was the result of the boom witnessed by the decentralized finance [DeFi] ecosystem. According to data provided by Skew, the price volatility of Ethereum and Bitcoin are converging. The converging spread of the Ether-Bitcoin 6-month at-the-money [ATM] Implied Volatility had...Read More
Disclaimer: The following price prediction should not be taken as investment advice as it is the opinion of the writer. The market of Bitcoin SV is clinging onto Bitcoin at the moment. As Bitcoin sustained its position above $10,900 for the time being, BSV also appeared to maintain close proximity to the resistance at $165....Read More
Over the past year, many of the market’s altcoins have shown signs of decoupling from the price movement of Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency. However, this wasn’t evident when the movement of the crypto-market in the month of September was assessed. In fact, while many of these alts did follow Bitcoin’s lead when BTC fell,...Read More
