After a few days of trading sideways and even slipping below $21,000, the bitcoin bulls returned on Saturday morning to push the asset to its highest price tag since September 13. With most altcoins well in the green as well, the number of liquidated short traders has soared. The start of 2023 continues to bring good news for the bitcoin bulls, which were quite dishearted following the painful 2022. However, BTC had added over $5,000 in the first few weeks of the new year and...
Read More »Bitcoin Surges Past $22k Triggering Another $250 Million in Liquidations
Bitcoin is continuing its weekly rally with a push beyond $22,000, bringing the crypto market back to a market cap of over $1 trillion. The pump has triggered another avalanche of liquidations across digital asset exchanges. Bitcoin traded for roughly $21,380 at 19:45 UST on Friday, before pumping by $1000 to $22,370 by 21:00. The pump has only continued since then, with the top asset going for $22,615 at writing time. Meanwhile, Ether has pumped from $1590 to $1651 within...
Read More »Bitcoin Price Holds Steady at $21K: 4 New Bullish Indicators
The cryptocurrency rally this month was so robust that traders are looking out for the price bottom. Is the market there yet, or will bears take the prices back down to key optical support at $20K? Here are four new bullish indicators for the BTC price. Solid MA Crossover in New Bitcoin Addresses On-chain intelligence and insights firm Glassnode has spotted a bullish technical signal in Bitcoin addresses. The 30-day simple moving average (SMA) has charted above the 200-day...
Read More »Peter Thiel’s Fund Cashed Out $1B Worth Crypto After Holding for 8 Years: FT
Peter Thiel has been a long-time Bitcoin backer. But his fund closing almost all its crypto positions shortly before the market went downhill did not sit well with many. According to Fortune’s latest report, Thiel’s VC firm – Founders Fund – cashed out all of its bets on cryptocurrencies and made $1.8 billion in profit while doing so. The San Francisco-based fund bought Bitcoin over eight years ago when the flagship crypto was trading under $1,000. Over the next few years, it...
Read More »Bitcoin Battles For $21K Following US DOJ News, Volatility Incoming? (BTC Price Analysis)
With Bitcoin’s recent price rally, many assume that the bear market is over. But is it too early to call bottoms? Technical Analysis By: Edris The Daily Chart: On the daily timeframe, the price has been rallying over the past couple of weeks, breaking above multiple static resistance levels and the significant 200-day moving average. The large falling wedge pattern has also been broken to the upside, which is usually considered a bullish reversal signal. From a classical...
Read More »5 On-Chain Factors Suggest Bitcoin’s Bull Run Could Have Started: Analysis
With bitcoin’s price surging by over $5,000 since the start of the year and reclaiming $20,000, the number of analysts predicting that the asset is out of the woods continues to increase. CryptoQuant is the latest analytics company to offer some insight into the key on-chain signals that could suggest the start of a bull run. Shortly after Santiment informed that the supply of bitcoin held on centralized exchanges had dropped to a multi-year low, CryptoQuant outlined the...
Read More »Lack of Regulations Will Trigger More Crypto Meltdowns, Predicts Kevin O’Leary
Kevin O’Leary – a popular Canadian investor and host of the TV show Shark Tank – believes the unregulated cryptocurrency environment will cause the collapse of other companies. However, he remains a proponent of the industry, admitting that he invested 5% of his wealth in bitcoin. Future Trouble Seems Inevitable In a recent interview for Kitco News, O’Leary forecasted that the FTX demise will certainly not be the last such event in the cryptocurrency space. He claimed some of...
Read More »Bitcoin Sees Historic Drop on Exchanges, Here’s What it Means
The fall of Sam Bankman-Fried’s $32 billion crypto empire highlighted the importance of self-custody for users. In fact, investors have already hopped on the trend of holding their assets themselves rather than entrusting their hard-earned money to a third-party platform. According to the latest data compiled by crypto analytic company, Santiment, Bitcoin’s supply on centralized crypto exchanges has dropped from 11.85% to 6.65% over the past year. 📉 The overall supply of...
Read More »Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index Rises to ‘Neutral’ for the First Time in 9 Months
The Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index – a metric that determines the community’s general sentiment on the primary cryptocurrency – spiked to a state of “Neutral” for the first time in nearly nine months. The increase comes as a result of BTC’s positive start in 2023. At Last, out of the ‘Fear’ Zone The Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index tracks multiple segments, including price volatility, social media comments, surveys, and others, to display the momentary investor sentiment toward the...
Read More »BTC Taps $21K But is it Time for a Correction? (Bitcoin Price Analysis)
Bitcoin’s price has gained significant bullish momentum and recovered from the drop caused by the FTX fallout. Yet, it has reached a robust resistance, and if the bulls push the price above it, a mid-term uptrend will become possible. Technical Analysis By Shayan The Daily Chart Bitcoin’s price continued its rally after overtaking the 50 and 100-day moving averages. It has also surpassed the wedge’s upper trendline reaching a decisive resistance level with considerable...
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