The total cryptocurrency market capitalization increased to about $3.05 trillion throughout the past seven days, adding close to $400 billion. This comes on the back of stellar performance from most of the coins, including but not limited to Bitcoin, Ripple, Dogecoin, and more. But first, let’s dive into what Bitcoin did. The week started off relatively calmly. Last Friday, when we wrote our previous market update, it was trading at slightly less than $80K, but this all...
Read More »BTC Price Explodes to $92K Despite Bitcoin Miners Reportedly Taking Profit
It didn’t take long for bitcoin to resume its bull run and spike above $90,000 to chart a fresh all-time high, this time at roughly $92,000. This comes despite some reports indicating that BTC miners have started to take profits to cover certain expenses. There’s a lot going on with BTC’s price in the past week, especially since it became known that Donald Trump will be the next president of the US. The asset’s run has been nothing short of spectacular as it took bitcoin from...
Read More »Double-Digit Price Surges From These Altcoins as Bitcoin (BTC) Eyes $80K (Weekend Watch)
It feels like a bull cycle once again as bitcoin’s price continues to chart new all-time highs almost daily, with the latest coming hours ago at just shy of $80,000. The altseason seems to be kicking off as well, with multiple alternative coins registering double-digit price surges over the past day. BTC’s New and Latest Peak It’s safe to say that the cryptocurrency landscape has become entirely different after Donald Trump’s win in the 2024 US presidential elections. Recall...
Read More »Bitcoin Price at All-Time High as Fed Cuts Interest Rates by 25 Basis Points
In the first FOMC meeting after the November US presidential elections, the nation’s central bank cut the interest rates by 25 basis points, which was what the market and experts anticipated. Bitcoin’s price, which is typically very susceptible to US-related news, was already at all-time high levels of just shy of $77,000 and remained relatively still. It has been a big week for the world’s largest economy as the nation elected a new president on Tuesday, who presents an...
Read More »10 Promises Donald Trump Has Made Regarding Bitcoin and Crypto
Throughout his election campaign, the new United States President, Donald Trump, remained vocal about his pro-crypto stance and made several promises regarding the development of the nascent industry. CryptoPotato has compiled a list of Trump’s declared promises, including pledges geared towards fostering innovation in the United States and continuing growth of the digital asset industry. Trump’s Promises Regarding Crypto Trump said he would commute the prison sentence of...
Read More »Here’s How Bitcoin Over-the-counter Availability Can Affect BTC Price (CryptoQuant)
Bitcoin (BTC) is experiencing a positive momentum that has pushed it very close to its all-time high of $73,750. The leading crypto asset came a couple of hundred dollars away from crushing that milestone on October 29. However, it recorded a small correction, and is currently trading at $72,200. While crypto enthusiasts anticipate a new high in the coming days, CryptoQuant analysts have explained the role bitcoin over-the-counter (OTC) availability could play in the asset’s...
Read More »Retail Bitcoin Investors Are Lagging: Here’s What it Means According to CryptoQuant
While bitcoin demand among large investors is picking up as time passes, smaller market players are lagging. According to a CryptoQuant report, the holdings of retail bitcoin investors are growing at a historically slow pace, even as this cohort of players gradually returns to the market amid BTC’s ascent to the $70,000 level. Retail Investor Holdings Slowly Growing In the past 30 days, retail bitcoin holdings have increased by just 1,000 BTC. The total assets by this group...
Read More »These Altcoins Dumped the Most as Bitcoin (BTC) Slumped to $65.5K (Weekend Watch)
Bitcoin’s price went through a massive rollercoaster on Friday night, dumping by $3,000 in minutes before it recovered some ground to $67,000. The altcoins have it even worse, and the total crypto market cap has shed about $70 billion overnight. BTC’s Down and Up The business week started quite promising for the primary cryptocurrency, which jumped on Monday from $68,000 to $69,500 to chart its highest price tag since late July. However, it faced an immediate rejection at...
Read More »ETF Recap: Bitcoin Funds Register Best Inflow Week Since March
The landscape around the spot Bitcoin ETFs turned highly positive in the past week, with the products attracting more than $2 billion in net inflows. This has become their best five-day trading period in this regard since mid-March. Massive Inflows for BTC ETFs It’s safe to say that it was a big week for the 11 US-based spot Bitcoin ETFs, with several multi-month peaks, such as BlackRock’s best day since July on Wednesday. The total net inflows rose above $20 billion that...
Read More »ApeCoin (APE) Returns to Top 100 Alts, Bitcoin (BTC) Maintains $68K (Weekend Watch)
Bitcoin’s price actions have calmed during the weekend, as probably expected, and the asset remains above the $68,000 level. The altcoins have been slightly in the red in the past day, but they went through a highly positive trading week, with impressive gains from ETH, SOL, BCH, and especially DOGE. BTC Calms Above $68K Last weekend went without any fireworks as BTC had recovered to $62,000 after slumping below $59,000 on Thursday. The eventful price movements were left for...
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