Bitcoin dominance is a metric weighing the top cryptocurrency’s market share against the rest of the crypto space, including Ethereum, Polkadot, Cardano, and other altcoins. For years, analysts used it as a tool to predict divergences between altcoins and Bitcoin. However, recently, the metric has lost just about all meaning, and could explain why it…
Aside from a few rare outliers, over the last several years, owning Bitcoin has been the better investment compared to other cryptocurrencies. Altcoins like Ethereum and others have only recently caught up, and BTC dominance has maintained the lion’s share of the crypto market cap. However, dominance has lost an important trendline dating back four…
For months, Bitcoin stole the show when it came to crypto, sucking the capital out of the altcoin market. Shortly after the top cryptocurrency started its pullback, profits began to flow back into altcoins that have since been soaring over the last month. BTC dominance shows how down to the wire the fight between Bitcoin…
Bitcoin has been explosive all of 2020, and while certain altcoins like Ethereum and a slew of DeFi tokens have outperformed the top cryptocurrency this year, altcoins overall have been a disappointment compared to past cycles. Those who lived through past cycles, expected altcoins to take off the moment Bitcoin surpassed its previous peak. But…
Bitcoin smashing through $12,000 gave the cryptocurrency enough momentum and energy to take out $13,000 and revisit last year’s highs. But while it did so, it caused altcoins like Ethereum, Chainlink, and dozens more to bleed out relative to BTC. It has left alts in a precarious position, potentially about to be left for dead…
The DeFi boom and an explosion of ROI across altcoins helped bring bullish sentiment back to crypto, and it helped push Bitcoin above $10,000 and hold the key level for the longest stretch ever. But while altcoins had regained some lost ground against the most dominant cryptocurrency, BTC dominance has potentially reversed, and if closes…
Bitcoin just rocketed above $11,000 following the recent Square news, and DeFi tokens everywhere had a significant bounce. As well as Bitcoin has done, altcoins have outperformed the top crypto asset prompting another intraday fall in dominance. Interestingly, a deeper review of the DXY dollar currency index’s relationship with altcoins has uncovered a bizarre correlation…
Bitcoin price today smashed back above $11,000 and is attempting to hold currently. The incredibly bullish price action following a retest of resistance turned support could have given bulls the confidence to push the crypto asset’s price much higher. But as bullish momentum builds in Bitcoin, altcoins have turned bearish. According to one crypto analyst,…
Bitcoin is up well over 50% year to date, but altcoins have beaten out the first-ever cryptocurrency in 2020. Etheruem, for example, has tripled compared to the number one cryptocurrency, and several others hare outperformed by even more. But there are five, powerful high timeframe signals that could be suggesting that BTC dominance has bottomed,…
Bitcoin dominance has been plummeting recently letting altcoins have their time in the crypto market spotlight for a change. But as altcoins begin to correct, BTC dominance is signaling that the asset is about to recover from the altcoin market’s rally against it. What does this mean for Bitcoin, and how will certain altcoins withstand…