After Bitcoin’s dip to $11,400, the crypto market saw red for many coins over the weekend. At press time, Bitcoin was staging a possible recovery upward priced at $11,760. Large-cap altcoins also saw modest price gains and some indicated that their pullback was complete, and the previous uptrend might continue. Litecoin was holding on to...Read More
Bitcoin Cash and Doge have spent August bouncing from support to resistance. At press time, both coins lacked momentum to force a big move up or down. The direction they are heading towards might be better gauged in the next few days. Ethereum Classic was able to defend support but did not offer anything else....Read More
Bitcoin dominance climbed from a recent low at 60.22 to 61.59 at the time of writing. The recent Bitcoin dip to $11,400 did major altcoins no favors, with a lot of red across the board. Some coins with excellent recent gains also dropped, such as TRON. Binance Coin might have also embarked on a short-term...Read More
Cardano enjoyed a bull run before other altcoins by surging ~890% in less than 5 months. Eventually, all altcoins joined the rally. While some surged more than others, LINK surged from less than $2 to $20 in the same time period. Like Link many defi projects and their tokens have done the same. Perhaps, the...Read More
Bitcoin sits well below $12,000 after its failure to breach the said psychological level. There are multiple factors acting in sync that has led to this particular outcome of bitcoin sliding lower. BTCUSD TradingView From the weekly chart, it can be seen that bitcoin’s $12,473 was the local top and also the monthly resistance. $12,473...Read More
Bitcoin was trading between $11,400 and $11,600 over the weekend. A lack of momentum in Bitcoin can sometimes make alts register big gains. and this might play out in the coming days in the case of Decred. Bitcoin SV has steadily been giving in to selling pressure throughout August, and more red could be in...Read More
Bitcoin sliding under $12,000 wasn’t surprising considering the number of failed taps at it. While this retracement is a healthy correction, it is uncertain to accurately predict what might happen in the future. However, there are theories and models that try to do exactly that. Bitcoin Four-Year Cycle Source: Twitter For instance, the “four-year cycle...Read More
Consider this – Exactly three months ago, the TVL locked in DeFi was well under $1 billion. At the time of writing, the same figure was closing in on $7 billion, with DeFi’s market cap north of $14.5 billion. The differential over the three months is just one of the metrics that tell us how...Read More
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” This is the Sagan Standard, an aphorism made popular by astrophysicist Carl Sagan via Cosmos. It’s a pithy observation, one that applies to not just the greater realms of Science, but also to Bitcoin and the rest of the cryptocurrency market. This is especially so when it comes to an...Read More
Ethereum was sorting some issues with network congestion, while DeFi boom was seen driving demand for Ether. Ethereum might begin another rally as on-chain metrics become more sustainable. An Ethereum bullrun heralds good fortune for the altcoin market as well. At press time, Zcash struggled against selling pressure while Steem appeared to be on the...Read More
Altcoins were the talk of the town over the past few months, with the exponential growth noted by alts like Crypto.com Coin and Cardano stoking calls for an alt season. However, this sentiment seemed to have mellowed down at the time of writing as many of these altcoins were again noting strong correlation stats with...Read More
Bitcoin as an asset performed well under unforeseen market conditions. Most cryptos followed Bitcoin’s trend but not at the same pace. Bitcoin Cash spent months dithering before surging in late July to make up for its losses in March. VeChain, last month, saw wild returns before settling down to gather steam. Crypto.com had been marching...Read More
Times have been very confusing for Ethereum and its community members. As the second-largest cryptocurrency was recognized for its persistent growth despite a brief crypto winter. The growth was majorly contributed by DeFi tokens and stablecoins. Gas fees has been a major cause of concern for people transacting on the blockchain. Even though there have...Read More
Ethereum has not only been the market’s second-largest cryptocurrency, but it has also been the torchbearer for many of its fellow altcoins. Even as Bitcoin succumbed to a month-long consolidation phase, ETH was until recently noting new highs, with its growth contributed to by sectors such as decentralized finance [DeFi] and stablecoins. However, this growth...Read More
If you had purchased $1000 worth of Bitcoin (0.13BTC) on 1 January 2020, it would be worth $1509.10 today. On the contrary, an investment of $1000 in Gold on the same day (0.65 oz) would be worth only $1277.10 today. Furthermore, if you had purchased $1000 worth of Bitcoin in 2013, your investment would be...Read More
When trading, many of the market’s traders have often observed a low correlation between Bitcoin and other global financial assets. That is interesting, but not unexpected since as a prospective store of value candidate it is supposed to be uncorrelated to a great degree. Here, it must be noted, however, that the correlation tends to...Read More
The Crypto Fear & Greed Index has been above 70 for the entirety of August, with the same showing an “extreme greed” reading of 78, despite the latest dip in Bitcoin’s price. Simply put, the crypto-market continues to remain bullish. This was the case with respect to many of the market’s altcoins as well as...Read More
Disclaimer: The following article should not be taken as investment advice. The findings of the same should be foreseeable over the next couple of weeks The bullish trend so evident in the early days of August is slowly starting to fade, with a majority of the market’s altcoins taking a dive on their charts. However,...Read More
Disclaimer: The following article should not be taken as investment advice and the findings of the same should be foreseeable over the next 24-48 hours XRP has struggled recently to keep its valuation above the $0.30 mark, with increasing sell pressure keeping the cryptocurrency’s value just under its resistance level on the charts. However, its...Read More
The latest dip in Bitcoin’s price has knocked back the gains of many of the market’s altcoins. Binance Coin and Tezos were just some of the alts to note such corrections. However, these price drops do not point to any reversal in trend yet and should be treated as healthy corrections in a bull market....Read More
As one of the largest organizations managing crypto-investment trust funds for accredited and retail investors, Grayscale recently crossed the $6 billion-mark with respect to Assets under Management (AUM). That’s not all, however, as over the past few years, besides catering to institutional investors, Grayscale has also seen increasing retail demand for crypto-exposure through 401k savings....Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article attempt to analyze the patterns emerging in the short-term Litecoin market and its impact on the crypto’s price Litecoin’s price has been trending lower and lower on the charts, ever since it registered a surge between 13 and 17 August. In fact, LTC’s price peaked at $69.15 on...Read More
Chainlink’s growth recently, especially in the month of August, has largely been parabolic, with many in the community under the belief that it may replicate Ethereum’s incredible price appreciation from 2017. It’s not hard to see why these people have these expectations as following its most recent surge, LINK shocked everyone after it climbed as...Read More
At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s dominance stood at 59.5%, with the same having fallen significantly over the past few months despite the fact that the world’s largest cryptocurrency climbed to new heights in 2020. This has been the case because many of the market’s altcoins have surged on the charts too. However, when Bitcoin...Read More
The last few months have seen the market’s altcoins perform exponentially, with many of them noting significant rallies on the charts, in direct opposition to the correlation they once shared with Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency. The last few days, however, saw these alts moving in line with Bitcoin, with the latter’s move over $12,000...Read More
DeFi has been a widely talked-about sector over the past few months. This is not at all surprising in light of the fact that DeFi’s market cap has risen exponentially over the summer. A look at DeFi Pulse’s charts clearly underlined the rate of growth since the TVL in DeFi had risen to $6.69 billion,...Read More
Bitcoin may have a market dominance of over 55%, however, the effects of its movements aren’t always equal among the rest of the market’s altcoins. In fact, an argument can be made that lately, many of these alts have been taking an independent trajectory owing to falling correlation stats, one where their values aren’t defined...Read More
The cryptocurrency industry has been developing at quite a fast pace and this has helped change the outlook of investors and governments around the world about crypto. Although it will be naive to say that the world has accepted crypto, many nations have been inching closer to embrace it, one step at a time. The...Read More
Bitcoin’s price has been tumbling lower ever since it touched the yearly peak of $12,473 on 17 August. This sudden boost in the price of the largest digital asset garnered the attention of traders who were busy dealing in altcoins while BTC was in a consolidation phase. The Bitcoin futures open interest was sitting at...Read More
July 27 was the last time Bitcoin SV registered a position below $200 and hence the most part of August can be considered positive, even though highly volatile. The volatility cannot be blamed since it has been prevalent throughout the industry but over the past few days, Bitcoin SV finally seems to have gone into...Read More
