Bitcoin appears to be very much the mainstream media’s flavor of the week once again. The crypto asset will be prominently featured on US national television for two separate reasons in the coming days. Firstly, there are the first broadcasts of the Grayscale Investments television advertising campaign to #DropGold in favor of crypto. The second…
Ever-the-optimist when it comes to crypto, Tom Lee has stated that he thinks a fair price for Bitcoin is $14,000. He bases this opinion on the cost to mine a Bitcoin and what he considers a traditional markup on commodities. The managing partner and head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors also stated that the…
XRP has been on an absolute tear over the past 60 days.Since bottoming at $0.17 in the middle of December, the cryptocurrency, currently the third-largest by market capitalization/value, has surged by just under 100%, hitting $0.336 just minutes ago as the time of this article’s writing.Related Reading: This Bitcoin Metric Is Over 100% Higher in…
There’s no doubt Bitcoin has been on a tear over the past 50 days. Since bottoming at $6,400 in the middle of December, the price of BTC has rocketed higher and higher, surging as high as $9,900 earlier today — inches shy of the key $10,000 price point.According to a number of analyses, however, the…
Ever since Bitcoin shot over 1,000% higher in 2017 to hit $20,000 — a price point that was once seen as relatively unobtainable by even some of the cryptocurrency’s most dedicated bulls — analysts have been waiting for the asset to “moon” once again.It appears that the moon, a noun-turned-verb used to describe the price…
The Bitcoin and wider cryptocurrency markets surprised observers yesterday as the market capitalisation of leading cryptos suddenly increased. January 14 started with the market at $217.5 billion, today that figure stands at over $238.8 billion.The heightened market volatility appears to have attracted other traders to the market. Open interest in Bitcoin futures, for example, has…
May’s halving will reduce the amount of Bitcoin rewarded to miners, and in turn, increase the coin’s scarcity.Considering this scarcity – think supply and demand – as well as historical data of the previous two halvings, Bitcoin’s price may see a remarkable bump in the months following the event.Halving Historically Leads to Massive GainsThe so-called…
Even though Bitcoin is up more than 150% from March’s lows, analysts have still been questioning if it is just a matter of time before the bear trend continues.A trader that months before March called for Bitcoin to fall to the $3,000s and for XRP to reach $0.11 recently touched on this. He indicated in the…
Were Nouriel “Dr Doom” Roubini, Jamie Dimon, and Warren Buffet right all along? Was the 2018 crash the end of Bitcoin? Do we all give up on this decentralised finance stuff and accept the rule of central bankers forever more? It was all tulips anyway, right… Bubble? What Bubble? For those who proudly proclaimed that…
Bitcoin’s precipitous drop to $6,600 seen last month caught many traders aback; nearly no one, not even the top traders and analysts, expected for that price action to play out as it did in real life. Few predicted the subsequent bounce to $7,800, where BTC sits as of the time of writing this, too.Related Reading:…