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Reflecting on the past year, 2021 has been great for Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market. It even saw the birth of two BTC futures ETFs in the States, but with just a week remaining until the end of it, American investors might not see spot one. SEC in no Mood for Spot Bitcoin ETFs According to the official document, the SEC rejected physically-backed Bitcoin ETFs proposed by Valkyrie and Kryptoin. The regulator cited similar market manipulation concerns while referring to...

Ever since the mid-year substantial sell-off, bitcoin miners’ reserves have been gradually rising, and their total holdings have reached a six-month high. Additionally, on-chain data showed that the reaccumulation levels had reached the September highs, right before BTC started to gain value rapidly. Miners Back to HODLing It was back in June this year when most bitcoin miners disposed of significant portions of their holdings in a relatively short period. This had a...

Christmas Eve is upon us, and it’s a green one. The overwhelming majority of cryptocurrencies are trading well in the green today and, as a matter of fact – throughout the entire week. Let’s kick it off with Bitcoin. BTC’s price was trading at around $46,000 this time last week. We saw the first bullish attempt on Sunday, but the price was rejected above $48K and retraced back to $46K. Then, things started looking positive, and bitcoin started climbing towards $50K. It had...

The bitcoin price had recently reclaimed the $50K mark, topping a 16-day high. Reviewing the last year’s significant corrections, we can find an interesting pattern in the daily time frame; Breaking above the 20-day MA line and closing a candlestick above has frequently led to an upward trend. This pattern has been repeated six times but failed twice. The first failure was due to the fact that the market was already overheated. The second failed incident was due to FUDs...

Mike Novogratz – CEO of Galaxy Investment Partners – recently gave his thoughts on Bitcoin’s price volatility going forwards. Here’s what he had to say. On CNBC’s Squawk Box, Joe Kernen pointed out to Novogratz that Bitcoin is up 66% on the year, yet down 30% from its high of $69k. He then asked if institutional adoption would lessen this apparent volatility. “I think volatility is coming down,” responded Novogratz. He recognizes how Bitcoin is relatively stable compared to...

This Friday, 24 of December 21, about $684 million worth of Bitcoin options contracts will expire in Deribit Exchange. The maximum pain price – the strike price that brings maximum loss to option buyers – is $48k. The put/call ratio (PCR) is 0.67. Calls for a $64k strike price have the highest open interest. The last two weeks’ Buy/Sell volume shows that the call seller for the $52k strike still looks at this strike as a resistance for this expiry. Ichimoku cloud could...

Bitcoin volatility continues. After dipping below $46K on Monday, BTC was able to recover sharply, marking Tuesday’s high above $49.3K as of writing these lines. Looking at the following chart, the middle line in the Bollinger Band might act as a support level for the ascending trends, and at the same time, it acts also as a resistance for the descending trends. After the bearish divergence was confirmed – as shown in the chart below – bitcoin’s price dropped from its ATH...

All markets are having a hard time during Monday’s trading session and Bitcoin is no exception. The cryptocurrency is down just shy of 2 percent in the past 24 hours while altcoins are mostly in red. Option Market Analysis The rising cases of the highly transmissible Omicron caused fear in all markets. Investors are worried about lockdowns which may have negative effects on the economy. In the options market, Short-dated implied volatility also increased accordingly to fear....

Although bitcoin is already more than 30% down from its ATH marked last month, Peter Brandt believes that the asset might not have reached its bottom yet. The CEO of Factor LLC noted that there hasn’t been a high volume panic capitulation yet to outline that bottom as with previous corrections. Bitcoin Is Yet to Bottom Out? It was just over a month ago when the entire cryptocurrency landscape was highly bullish on positive developments coming from all directions. Perhaps the...

One of the largest supermarket chains in Mexico – Elektra – allowed customers to pay their bills in bitcoin instead of fiat currencies. To process the cryptocurrency payments, the company partnered with BitPay. At the same time, the South Korean-Japanese video game publisher – Nexon – enabled players to purchase in-game items with digital assets. Elektra Joins The Crypto Club The behemoth became the first retail store in Mexico to accept bitcoin as a payment method. The...