Metrics

This is a good sign for Bitcoin Cash BUT….

For the first time since June, Bitcoin’s price slipped below the $30k level on Tuesday. This dip managed to stir chaos in the market. However, the king coin was quick to recover and was trading just under $32k, at press time, thanks to the hype associated with the B Word conference. To put it in the words of Changing Zhao of Binance, “The market likes to play with our emotions.” Bitcoin’s 6.2% hike over the last 24 hours was well reflected in the one-day RoI of most alts. In fact,

Bitcoin: What’s the impact of Musk’s ‘but I don’t dump’ claims

“If the price of Bitcoin goes down, I lose money. I might pump, but I don’t dump.” You might have, most definitely, stumbled upon this Elon Musk statement while scrolling through social media today. The market’s largest cryptocurrency witnessed mini-pumps in succession over the past 24 hours owing to Musk’s public appearance on “The B Word.” Riding on the back of Elon Musk’s claims, Bitcoin went on to cross the $32,500-mark. However, the same could not persist for long. Bitcoin pumped, but here’s what traders had to say Bitcoin was back

Bitcoin’s future price action would depend on these key aspects

A massive drop, fear and anxiety at their peak, and a superstar entry back with a bang, pretty much sums up Bitcoin’s price action over the past week. The king coin’s downward trajectory led to a market-wide fall and a major bearish market. However, nothing is permanent in this crypto-verse where volatility is the name of the game. Bitcoin’s foray below the $30k zone didn’t last long either, and the asset soon made a strong comeback with gains of 6.25% in 24 hours, at the time of writing. A closer look

China Situation Not as Bad, Bitcoin to Reclaim $60K In 2021: Interview with OKEx

CryptoPotato had the opportunity to host a discussion with Lennix Lai – the Financial Markets Director at OKEx. Established in 2017, OKEx is one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges in the world by means of trading volume and is also a big player in China. We took the opportunity to discuss, first hand, what’s currently going on in the market from both a retail and institutional perspective, as well as what’s actually happening in China. [embedded content] $60K Bitcoin In 2021 After Bitcoin lost around 50% from its all-time high

Daily Created Ethereum Addresses Hits a Three-Year High

In more bullish news relating directly to Ethereum fundamentals, the second-largest crypto by market cap has seen the most new addresses created in a single day in the last 35 months. The cryptocurrency space has largely seen positive price growth, including the leading smart contract platform. Ethereum may be having one of its biggest years so far, as the system migrates over to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) verification with the launch of 2.0. Alongside this release, ETH witnessed a yearly price increase of around 4x as the Ethereum price flirts with the

November 2020: A Month of All Time Highs

November 2020 has been a record-smashing month for crypto. From coin derivatives, to flat-out Bitcoin (BTC) price, the roller coaster keeps climbing up. With power behind Bitcoin like never before, the next few months look exciting. All-Time Higher and higher So the golden price of $20,000 for 1 BTC never happened, but $19,725 was not half bad. Cryptocurrencies are having another year to remember, and November was perhaps that most exciting month yet. According to Coingecko’s monthly report, November saw plenty of highs. The crypto market cap reached $554 billion.

98% of All Bitcoin Is Now Worth More Than When You Bought It

Bitcoin (BTC) has delivered gains to its holders on almost 98% of all days since 2013, new data confirms. According to a dedicated social media-based monitoring resource which tracks profitability, buying Bitcoin has made its holder richer on 97.6% of days.BTC profitability “characteristic of bull runs”Put another way, as on-chain analytics service Glassnode noted in its The Week On-Chain weekly report on Monday, 97.6% of Bitcoin unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs) are in profit.This means that only 2.4% of UTXOs were created — as part of a transaction between wallets — when

Bitcoin and Gold Short-Lived Correlation Not a Sign of Comparability

The Bitcoin (BTC) and gold one-month correlation reached a record high of 68% as Bitcoin hit $12,000 early in August, but the correlation crashed by 20% the following week. Despite this, Bitcoin looks set to become digital gold in 2020 considering the price correlations and trends in the futures market.Both gold and Bitcoin are having a phenomenal year in terms of year-to-date returns. According to Skew Analytics, gold has a 27.93% YTD return, while Bitcoin has racked up a 71.68% YTD yield. Although Bitcoin sees much higher volatility than gold,

Stocks Correct While Digital Assets Stay Firm And a New DeFi Project Get Mashed

Finally, the new-age tech investing has become delicious with the latest buzzword project, called Yam Finance. This particular protocol, which first entered the idea phase on August 1 and whose developers released the first implementation of their product on Tuesday, managed to rack up hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of investments, before crashing out in a blaze of social media-hosted meme-economy glory last night. No duh, the coding was rushed and unaudited. It was bound to have flaws. In many cases finding a bug in your software is a