Bitcoin (BTC) has become considerably more decentralized in the past year, one metric suggests — and the trend is growing. According to data from on-chain data resource Blockchain, hash rate distribution is increasingly favoring small, unknown miners. Small guys increase slice of mining pie Despite the past twelve months seeing a large price run-up, Bitcoin
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Bitcoin (BTC) has better probability of recovering back to $60,000 than to break below its current support level of $30,000 and target $20,000, believes Mike McGlone, senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence. A screenshot from McGlone’s latest analysis on the flagship cryptocurrency, first shared by Bloomberg’s senior ETF analyst, Eric Balchunas, shows him comparing Bitcoin’s ongoing
This Friday’s weekly Bitcoin (BTC) options expiry currently holds a $330 million open interest. Considering the recent struggle to regain the $32,000 support, this event is an important test of bulls’ willingness to display reversion signs. On July 21, Alameda Research announced that the company made Bitcoin purchases below $30,000, and Sam Trabucco, the firm’s
Bitcoin’s (BTC) painful plunge below $30,000 on Tuesday turned into a so-called “buy the dip” opportunity for Alameda Research, a Hong Kong-based quantitative trading firm and liquidity solutions firm headed by FTX-famed Sam Bankman-Fried. The company’s quantitative trader Sam Trabucco revealed late Tuesday that they purchased Bitcoin during its latest price decline, adding that their
There’s no doubt that the last couple of months have been bearish for Bitcoin (BTC), but throughout this entire period, derivatives indicators have been relatively neutral. This could be because cryptocurrencies have a strong track record of volatility, and even 55% corrections from all-time highs are expected. After two months of struggling to sustain the
Billion-dollar investment firm Rothschild Investment Corp quadrupled its exposure to Bitcoin (BTC) since April, new records show. In a filing with the United States’ Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on July 17, Rothschild confirmed that it now owns 141,405 shares of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC). Rothschild GBTC shares near 150,000 A quiet but nonetheless
Bitcoin (BTC) breaking below $30,000 has cost it almost all of its 2021 bull run gains — but a historic silver lining is ready to rescue bulls. Data from crypto exchange Binance’s order book confirms that BTC/USD has almost dipped to the strongest support zone ever seen. BTC price arrives at “biggest bid ever” It
The rocky road that Bitcoin (BTC) has been on for the past two months continued on July 19 as a widely predicted move downwards materialized in the early hours on Monday and dropped the price of BTC below $31,000. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that a wave of mid-day selling pushed the price
The head of crypto investment giant Grayscale believes that only a “couple of maturation points” separate the United States from its first Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF). Speaking to CNBC on July 19, Michael Sonnenshein reiterated that a U.S. ETF is a matter of “not ‘if,’ but ‘when.’” Sonnenshein: “If, not when” for U.S. Bitcoin
In the last 29 days, Bitcoin (BTC) has been ranging from $31,000 to $36,000 as the impact of the recent China ban and a $1.4 billion Grayscale GBTC share unlocking continue to pressure markets. China’s government implemented a series of measures to curb cryptocurrency mining and trading by ordering the immediate shut down of some
It’s now three months since the last Bitcoin (BTC) all-time high, but one measure suggests that holders may be waiting even longer for the next. In a series of tweets on July 17, analytics service Ecoinometrics revealed that this year’s descent from all-time highs is the second-longest in Bitcoin bull market history. $30,000 may stay
Dollar traders have kept a close eye on a potentially bullish “inverse head-and-shoulders” pattern building in the U.S. dollar index (DXY) chart. Meanwhile, the smell of a stronger greenback is weakening Bitcoin’s (BTC) upside case, especially as the flagship cryptocurrency struggles to break out of its current $30,000-35,000 trading range. Three troughs, one price ceiling
Bitcoin (BTC) dropped to its “final support zone” above $31,000 on July 15 as a low grind downward brought fresh predictions of a BTC price crash. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Binance debacle spreads as $32,000 falls Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD hitting fresh local lows of $31,550 on Thursday.
Decentralized finance (DeFi) has been one of the hardest-hit sectors since Bitcoin (BTC) price corrected from its all-time high in early May and this can be seen by the decline in the total value locked (TVL) on all protocols. According to data from DeFi Llama, the total value locked in decentralized finance platforms dropped from
A Canada-based Bitcoin fund, operated by 3iQ Corp, has witnessed a dramatic decline in its BTC reserves since June. Literally named the Bitcoin Fund (QBTC:CN), the closed-end investment product, was holding around 24,000 BTC in its vaults in early June. However, as the monthly session progressed, the reserves first dropped to below 16,000 BTC in
Ethereum’s native token Ether (ETH) reclaimed $2,000 in the early New York trading hours Wednesday as crypto traders assessed the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s prepared congressional testimony. The ETH/USD exchange rate surged 7.19% to reach its intraday high of $2,019.90. Likewise, Bitcoin (BTC), whose 7-day positive correlation with Ether stands at 0.84 above zero,