Bitcoin Dominance climbed to 61.55, as fear and bears continued to hold sway over crypto markets. Bitcoin SV and Cosmos were holding on to a support level, while Zcash exhibited a bullish signal. Bitcoin SV [BSV] Source: BSV/USDT on TradingView Bitcoin SV bounced off support level at $151, and was trading at $161 at the...Read More
Decred, Binance Coin and Monero were trading near important levels of support. Recovery from the recent drop can take weeks and will be signaled when the assets reclaim levels of resistance they so recently had counted as support. Decred [DCR] Source: DCR/USDT on TradingView Bollinger bands’ mouth was wide, which is to be expected after...Read More
“The time to buy is when there’s blood on the streets”, said Baron Rothschild. It could be difficult to discern whether the bloodshed has halted, or if there is more red to be seen. Tezos, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash showed no signs of halting as they nosedived past support levels. A redeeming fact was that...Read More
The Times, They are a-Changin…. The same is also true for Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto-market. The world’s largest cryptocurrency has been facing a lot of turbulence over the last few days, with BTC finally plunging to its July levels. In fact, since the beginning of September, Bitcoin has lost over 12.06% of...Read More
Until quite recently, Ethereum’s price seemed to have surged overnight owing to the ongoing DeFi craze. In fact, according to many analysts, DeFi’s explosion has been the top driver for Ethereum’s growth. What’s more, DeFi’s Total Value Locked figures have grown from under $1 billion at the start of 2020 to upwards of $10 billion....Read More
Bitcoin’s recent price action triggered a cascade of sell liquidations on BitMEX. In fact, a total of $264 million sell orders were liquidated following Bitcoin’s price drop below $11,500. Interestingly, the U.S stock market also suffered a similar fate. However, perhaps the reactions of traders on derivatives exchanges are most important since those reactions influence...Read More
When it rains, it pours – Thus goes the saying. Bitcoin found its ceiling at $12,000 and failed to break past it, despite multiple attempts. In fact, the euphoria surrounding Bitcoin and the market’s surging altcoins seems to have abated off-late too. While the Fear and Greed Index registered a reading above 70 for all...Read More
Bitcoin’s price has been increasingly volatile over the past few days. However, despite its most recent fall, the cryptocurrency has been able to maintain its position above the key $10,000-mark. While growing uncertainty in the global markets has followed the fiat printing spree governments undertook to keep the economy alive, Bitcoin’s value proposition as a...Read More
Cardano has failed to hold on to multiple levels of support over the past month after it looked set to consolidate at the end of an uptrend. Further, Binance Coin looked healthy as it soared above $25, only to be brought back to earth by the market-wide crash a few days ago. Ontology also had...Read More
In sync with most of the altcoin market over the past few days, XRP’s price also took a hit as it fell by close to 15 percent on the charts. Since then, the cryptocurrency has been confined below the $0.257 price range, a development that seems to have undone the gains XRP noted over the...Read More
Ethereum has been sharing the limelight with Bitcoin this year following its exponential growth. This growth, however, was churned out by the growing interest generated among users through Decentralized Finance [DeFi] and the thought of making use of smart contracts to leverage positions in the market. With DeFi gathering momentum, ERC-20 tokens too were grabbing...Read More
The Decentralized Finance [DeFi] space has gained a lot of attention in 2020 and given the hype, it has invited a lot of skeptics as well. Alas, the hype of DeFi seemed to come crashing down on 5 September after the anonymous founder of SushiSwap sold all of his tokens, with many yelling “Exit scam!”...Read More
Bitcoin was trading at $10,381 at the time of writing, after registering a low of $9966 yesterday. As long as Bitcoin does not close under the $10,000-level, a case can be made to suggest that it will be in a consolidation phase after the sell-off, above its support level. In fact, many altcoins noted massive...Read More
In light of the short-term memory span of most people in the cryptocurrency space, it’s easy to forget just how bullish Bitcoin has been, despite its drop from $12,000. For over a month, Bitcoin has been trading in five-digits, and most of that time was spent over $11,000. The largest cryptocurrency in the world was...Read More
Disclaimer: The following article attempts to analyze the emerging patterns in Litecoin’s long-term market and their impact on its price The rally is out and most of the market’s cryptocurrencies have lost their peaks as the market crumbled. Litecoin [LTC] was one of these cryptos, with the altcoin’s high correlation with Bitcoin [BTC] pushing it...Read More
Bitcoin slid down the price charts by nearly $2000 after falling from $12,000 on 1 September to $10,200 on 4 September. In fact, there could be more downside on the cards, with a Bitcoin CME gap at $9665 left unbridged. At the same time, Bitcoin Dominance picked up from 59 to climb to 59.94%, at...Read More
Earlier in the week, Bitcoin ended up losing over 5 percent of its trading value in around an hour’s time. In line with the crypto-market’s long-standing tradition, this price drop went on to affect the rest of the altcoins too, with BCH being one of them. Bitcoin Cash’s price action had looked promising all throughout...Read More
When Bitcoin dropped in value from $12,000 to $10,200 a few days ago, so did most of the crypto-market. Over a longer timeframe, however, it is likely that what BTC is noting is only a retracement in its bull run. That being said, the drop in question did take many traders by surprise. Further, while...Read More
Tether has become more mainstream than ever. It ranks third with a market capitalization of $13.7 B with its market dominance having increased by 2.9% since August 31, 2020. Source: CoinMarketCap However, this level of dominance and explosive growth makes it an outlier in stablecoins. Tether was introduced as the ‘digital dollar’ for facilitating entry...Read More
The effects of Bitcoin’s recent collapse were far-reaching, with many of the market’s altcoins noting repercussions on their own price charts. The likes of Bitcoin Cash, Synthetix, and VeChain weren’t immune to these effects either, with all the value of all these alts falling dramatically. It should be noted, however, that the depreciation in the...Read More
Binance may have entered the derivatives space late, but within no time, it has established its place in the market and among users. The reason behind its success was the variety of altcoins offered by the exchange along with the major coins. 2020, has been the year of DeFi and Binance realized this and added...Read More
For all the talk about an altseason, Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, continues to share high correlation stats with the rest of the market’s altcoins. This was very apparent over the last 72-hours as the larger crypto-market bled following Bitcoin’s incredible depreciation on the charts. The likes of Chainlink, IOTA, and DASH were among them,...Read More
Disclaimer: The following article attempts to analyze the emerging patterns in the Ethereum short-term market and its impact on price. The Ethereum market has been synonymous with the tremendous growth witnessed in the cryptocurrency market. However, this week has been a bit brutal, as volatility caused significant price swings in the market. Ethereum which was...Read More
Bitcoin may be the dominant cryptocurrency in terms of its market cap, but altcoins have gained a lot of attention this year. Chainlink [LINK] has been one such altcoin, that grew exponentially over the past few months, providing investors massive gains. There have been several products introduced by exchanges to invite more user interest on...Read More
After a week of battling to regain position above $200 effectively, Bitcoin SV’s price finally gave in to the pressure of the bears as the collective crypto market fell. For BSV, it felt almost expected as the asset declined by 13 percent over the past day. The token also dropped in the rankings and is...Read More
Many in the community sighed with relief after Bitcoin arrested its fall on the 2nd of September by holding steady around the $11,300-mark. However, this wasn’t to last as over the next 24-hours, a bloodbath ensued, with the world’s largest cryptocurrency falling to under $10,300, at the time of writing. As is usually the case,...Read More
The cryptocurrency market is well-versed with the subject of volatility. Such volatility has not only helped many a crypto-asset break out of its sideways movement on the charts, but the same has also precipitated sudden sell-offs. Traders often use volatility in their favor to hedge against potential risks in the market, while avoiding unexpected price...Read More
Decentralization has been the key differentiator between the world of cryptocurrencies and that of traditional finance. However, over the past decade, as cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin grew in popularity and more products were introduced, crypto-exchanges were the ones to cement their position as the industry’s most dominant entities. Interestingly, with the monumental growth of the DeFi...Read More
Disclaimer: The following article attempts to analyze the emerging patterns in the long-term Tezos market and its impact on the price Tezos [XTZ] was among the market’s best-performing assets in 2019. It has continued to do so in 2020, with the digital asset noting YTD returns of over 110%, at the time of writing. However,...Read More
Bitcoin may have been confined to certain price levels, forcing it to endure quite a bit of sideways movement, over the past few months. However, parallelly, the DeFi space has registered a major boom. The growth of DeFi this year has also raised questions about the sustainability of the platform it is based on –...Read More
