Following yesterday’s announcement that Square has purchased $50 million worth of Bitcoin, the asset has reacted with a significant price jump to $10,900. Most altcoins have followed suit and the cryptocurrency market cap has increased by $12 billion.Bitcoin To $10,900 Due To Square?Bitcoin was in a bit of a pickle in the past few days trading around $10,600. Yesterday didn’t appear as a breakthrough day for the asset as it was slowly declining towards $10,540 (on Binance).However,...
Read More »Bitcoin Price Breaks To New 17-Day High: $11K Incoming? (BTC Analysis)
Bitcoin’s price has managed to climb $300 today and break bullish out of a 19-day consolidation pattern (white dashed lines). This is pretty surprising considering the recent Kucoin hack, BitMEX investigation from the CFTC, and the potential for a second wave of lockdowns worldwide. In just 6 hours, $12 billion flooded back into the crypto markets, shortly after Jack Dorsey’s Square announced it had purchased 4.709 BTC (approx $50 million). This catapulted the leading...
Read More »Bitcoin Fundamentals are in ‘Moon Mode’ Now: Will Market Respond Only In 2021?
Noted on-chain market analyst Willy Woo is of the opinion that Bitcoin’s network fundamentals including blockchain data and infrastructural metrics are going pretty strong. But the BTC market has still not caught up on this ‘moon-like’ action. Willy believes it will, only next year.Bitcoin On-chain Data And Metrics From Infrastructure Players are in ‘Moon Mode’Willy Woo, while tweeting from his official Twitter handle, took a heavily bullish stance on the state of the Bitcoin network. He said...
Read More »Low Volatility Index Suggests Huge Bitcoin Price Move Incoming: History in Favor of the Bulls?
Bitcoin has had a slow last few weeks, that’s for sure. It appears that the cryptocurrency is trading within a narrow range, unable to swing convincingly in either direction.This is reflected in its historic volatility, which has been falling quite a bit. In fact, it’s currently at a point where, usually, a huge move is inbound.Bitcoin Historic Volatility Low: Huge Move IncomingThose who’ve been following the cryptocurrency markets long enough know that there’s rarely a boring day. And, in...
Read More »Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC To Reclaim $10.7K as Whale Shakeout Pattern Completes?
Bitcoin price appears to be tracking in another classic whale manipulation pattern right now, after yesterday’s sharp $200 crash during the US trading session. The details of this pattern have already been covered extensively in a previous analysis, but for those of you not familiar, it essentially represents a strategy employed by large BTC traders (whales) to create panic in the market and force weaker hands to sell. The induced rise in selling pressure creates more...
Read More »Bitcoin Price Dips to $10,525 as Stocks Also Tumble (Market Watch)
Bitcoin has failed to sustain its recent bullish run and has dropped to approximately $10,600. Most alternative coins have mimicked BTC’s move, resulting in a $10 billion loss from the total market cap.Bitcoin Fails At $10,800As reported yesterday, Bitcoin had reacted positively on news that US President Donald Trump left the hospital after a few days and returned to the White House. The primary cryptocurrency, copying gains on Wall Street, accelerated in price and peaked at $10,800.However,...
Read More »Binance Coin (BNB) Back To Top 5 After 9% Weekly Gains: Bitcoin Price Stagnant (Sunday’s Market Watch)
Bitcoin has stayed in a relatively tight range between $10,500 and $10,600.Most large-cap altcoins performed similarly, except for Binance Coin. After a 9% increase for the week, BNB now occupies the 5th spot in terms of total market cap.Bitcoin Remains In A Tight RangeFollowing the recent price declines from Friday and early Saturday, Bitcoin calmed down. Since yesterday, BTC dipped to a low of around $10,500 and jumped towards the intraday high of $10,600.In the past 24 hours, BTC has...
Read More »Bitcoin Still Holds Crucial Support At $10.5K, But Eyes On The White House (BTC Price Analysis)
For the past month, BTC’s volatility had decreased compared to the previous months. The primary cryptocurrency had mainly traded inside a $1K range between $10,000 and $11,000. Over the past week, Bitcoin reached the upper boundary of that range at $11K; however, the news coming from BitMEX charged by CFTC, along with President Trump’s hospitalization, sent Bitcoin to $10.4K last Thursday, which marked the weekly lowest price. So far, this weekend had been slightly positive,...
Read More »S2F Model: 35% Think Bitcoin Won’t Reach $55K Target by 2021
According to a recent poll by the creator of the popular Bitcoin stock-to-flow model, the majority of participants believe that BTC’s price will either hit $55,000 or stay below it by the end of 2021.Backstory: Bitcoin Stock-To-Flow Model(s)A cryptocurrency analyst going by the Twitter handle PlanB revealed the first version of the BTC stock-to-flow model a few years back. He described the stock as the size of existing reserves (or stockpiles) and the flow – the annual supply of bitcoins on...
Read More »50 Bitcoins Worth Over $500,000 Mined in May 2010 Mysteriously Moved to Bitfinex
Bitcoin worth roughly $500,000 was moved to one of Bitfinex’s hot wallets a couple of days back.This might seem like nothing but an ordinary transaction if it wasn’t for the fact that the BTC in question was mined back in May 2010, and it hasn’t been touched since. At the time, Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator, was still active.50 BTC From Satoshi’s Time on the MoveAn exciting transaction took place a couple of days ago. On October 1st, 2020, someone sent 50 BTC, currently...
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