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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...

Options Market Analysis 25 Delta Skew and Volatility Analysis On December 4th, the bitcoin price dropped about $16k. Options traders have set different hedging strategies like buying lots of puts at $50k & $52k strike prices during the last weeks for the possible downside. To find out what happened in the options market, It’s better to look at 25 delta Skew. This is a way of measuring the volatility skew. For example, for one month, it can be computed using the following...

On December 4, bitcoin suffered its worst trading day since mid-May, as its price plunged to a two-month low of $42,000. Somewhat expectedly, this massive $16,000 crash in less than 24 hours led to a change in investors’ sentiment as the popular Bitcoin Fear & Greed Index went into “extreme fear” territory once again. Extreme Fear Shakes The Crypto Community The Bitcoin Fear & Greed Index works as an indicator of momentary investor sentiments towards the primary...

Bitcoin’s slump continues after experiencing a sharp price decline over the last few hours. The dip caused over $200 million worth of long positions to get liquidated. Earlier today, Bitcoin briefly reached $57.5k at 8:44am EST, after stagnantly trading within the $56-57k range. The price suddenly fell afterward, dropping hundreds of dollars by the hour. According to BitStamp, Bitcoin fell to $51.5k. Binance Futures even saw the price drop below $51k. Since then, the price...

TeraWulf – an American bitcoin mining company – raised around $200 million in debt and equity financing from a group of individual and institutional investors. As a result, the firm expects to achieve a mining capacity of 6 exahash per second or 200 megawatts by the second part of 2022. Furthermore, TeraWulf eyes public listing on Nasdaq through a business merger with the tech company IKONICS Corporation. TeraWulf Aims High As part of the $200 million financing, TeraWulf...

Bitcoin’s price action continues to be shaky in the short term, but that might largely be attributed to headwinds caused by the newfound COVID variant. Despite the recent bearishness, the on-chain metrics and the mid-to-long-term technicals continue to favor extended bull market and show no real signs of worry. This analysis was compiled by analysts GrizzlyBTClover and CryptoVizArt to CryptoPotato. Mid-Term Technical Analysis Bitcoin is moving up inside the uptrend channel on...