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Yesterday’s inflation news from the US pushed bitcoin to $50,000 once more, but the asset failed and dropped by several thousand dollars. Most altcoins are also in the red on a daily scale, as ETH slid to $4,000. Bitcoin Rejected at $50K The past several days didn’t go all that well for the primary cryptocurrency. It tried to recover from last week’s massive crash and challenged the $50,000 mark on several occasions but to no avail. Its inability to break above had driven it...

The member of the Republican party and Florida Governor – Ron DeSantis – proposed that the government should allow businesses to pay state fees with digital assets like bitcoin. He added that the authorities plan to launch pilot programs to explore the use of blockchain technology to monitor motor vehicle records as well as validate Medicaid settlements. Towards a Crypto-Friendly State Ron DeSantis included his idea as part of the 2022-2023 budget proposal during an...

Options Market Analysis Bitcoin price is now sub $49,000, about 27% below the ATH ($69k). Options traders set different hedging strategies during the previous weeks to protect against the market downside. Next Friday, December 17th, about $630 million worth of bitcoin options contracts will expire in Deribit. The max pain scenario for this expiry is if the price is at $50K. Calls at 60k strike price have the highest open interest with 1005 contracts. Options traders have sold...

There’s no sugarcoating it, the past seven days have been very tough throughout the entire cryptocurrency market, with a few small exceptions. The total capitalization dropped to $2,375 billion, which represents a loss of about 13%. Let’s start with Bitcoin. The primary cryptocurrency is down 14% on a seven-day scale. It started the week at around $56K, but bears weren’t having it anymore and crashed the price during the early Saturday trading session when BTC dropped to...

The inflation numbers in the United States for November are out, and it appears that the Consumer Price Index is at its highest point in about 40 years. Bitcoin’s price spiked above $50K on the news, albeit briefly. Bitcoin’s price surged by almost $2,000 in a few hours, reaching an intraday high above $50K before retracing to where it currently trades at about $49,500. Chart by TradingViewThis comes as the monthly inflation numbers in the United States became public today....

It has taken the bitcoin hash rate less than six months to recover from its China-induced crash. The metric, displaying the robustness of the world’s largest blockchain, has increased by roughly three-fold since late June and is close to the ATH tapped in May. BTC’s Hash Rate Nears ATH Six Months Later The hash rate reached an all-time high in May this year at nearly 200 Ehash/s, according to data from BitInfoCharts, when the situation changed vigorously. China, the world’s...

The NASDAQ-listed tech giant, spearheaded by Michael Saylor, continues its BTC buying spree after another substantial purchase worth more than $80 million. Michael Saylor, one of the most prominent bitcoin advocates, who is also the founder and CEO of MicroStrategy, announced the latest purchase earlier on December 9th. The company has accumulated another 1,434 coins for approximately $82.4 million in cash at an average price of around $57,500 per bitcoin. This means that the...

Choppy price action and indecisiveness – this is how we can summarize the past couple of days on the cryptocurrency market. In our last BTC price analysis, we examined if whether or not $69K was the cycle’s top following the vicious corrections, and now, we take a closer look into how the market is developing from a technical and on-chain perspective. Options Market Analysis This Friday, December 10, about $946 million worth of bitcoin options contracts will expire in...

Dan Morehead – Chief Executive Officer of Pantera Capital – said the controversial monetary policies, which the US government enforced, could create bubbles in the financial system. In his view, bond markets “manipulated” by the Fed are the real Ponzi Schemes and not bitcoin. The Danger Comes From The Fed; not Crypto In a recent interview for Bloomberg, Dan Morehead – Founder and CEO of Pantera Capital – warned that investors dealing with bonds “are going to get absolutely...

People in Colombia will soon have a new option to buy their favorite cryptocurrencies using their bank accounts just as easy as they buy any other product. The US-regulated cryptocurrency exchange Gemini announced that it had finally completed all the necessary steps to move to the implementation phase of a project that would allow Colombians to buy cryptocurrencies with the funds stored on their Bancolombia accounts. This partnership is of great importance for the...