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The current Bitcoin volatility Index values suggest that a short squeeze may be near, if past pattern continues to hold. Past Bitcoin Volatility Index Pattern Suggests A Short Squeeze May Happen Here As explained by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, the BTC volatility index has now reached values where a short squeeze has happened in the past. The “volatility index” is an indicator that shows how much the price of Bitcoin has fluctuated in a day compared to its historical average. When the value of this metric rises, it means the crypto’s price has recently seen higher volatility as its price has deviated more from its average. On the other hand, low values suggest Bitcoin has been relatively stable lately as the price hasn’t seen any large movements. Volatility is often high following a liquidation event. These “liquidation squeezes” happen when the market is overleveraged, and so any big swings in the price lead to mass liquidations of futures positions. Related Reading | Bitcoin Bearish Signal: Binance Observes Massive Inflow Of 10k BTC The price usually crashes during a long liquidation squeeze due to a cascading effect by these liquidations. On the contrary, the price may instead jump up during a short squeeze. Now, here is a chart that shows the trend in the Bitcoin volatility over the past six months: The index’s value seems to have risen and subsequently fallen recently | Source: CryptoQuant As you can see in the above graph, the indicator’s value shot up recently following a long squeeze, but has now come back down. At the moment, the Bitcoin liquidation index seems to have values of around 19.12. In the chart, the quant has highlighted past portions that are relevant to this current trend. It looks like shortly following such a formation, the price has made a strong move up with a short squeeze. Related Reading | ‘Bitcoin Rush’: Small-Time Solo Miners Strike Gold With Full BTC Blocks The analyst thus thinks that the coin may follow this pattern now as well, and its price may go back to $46k to $47k. However, the quant believes that such a move will only be short term relief, and Bitcoin will resume the downtrend soon after. BTC Price At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s price floats around $36.2k, down 5% in the last seven days. Over the past month, the crypto has lost 28% in value. The below chart shows the trend in the price of BTC over the last five days. BTC’s price seems to have moved sideways in the last few days | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView A few days back, the price of Bitcoin jumped back to $38k, but the recovery didn’t last long and the crypto fell down to $36k. Featured image from Unsplash.com, charts from TradingView.com, CryptoQuant.com

Terra (Luna) was one of this week’s biggest crypto losers, falling by as much as 20% during Friday’s session. Declines in terra came as cosmos (ATOM) also had a double-digit decline. Biggest gainers Although crypto markets were mainly trading in the red, symbol (XYM) was one of the rare exceptions to climb higher today. XYM […]

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When you try to buy a jpeg or lose money in DeFi and that “friendly” Metamask dialogue pops up asking you to pay $100+ in gas, the Ethereum network is treating you and your hard earned money with disrespect. I get it, gas helps the blockchain validate transactions, and yes, whoever is running the nodes…
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It appears that a bill has been put forward in Arizona to make Bitcoin legal tender within the state. You can find the full document in here: https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/SB1341P.pdf We should wait for further confirmation, but it's on the page of the Arizona State. I don't know how this would affect the current status on AZ,…
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LUNA has been dropping sharply in the past few days, deeper than larger cryptocurrencies. As of press time, Terra’s native token moves on critical support barely above $50 with a 16.4% loss in the last 24 hours. Related Reading | Terra Announces Non-Profit ‘Luna Foundation Guard’ According to Wu Blockchain, the token lost as much as 20% in the last day. Apparently, retail investors have been panic selling their LUNA funds due to concerns about several of its dApps and UST. The latter is one of many stablecoins operating on the Terra ecosystem which is based on a supply and demand mechanism to maintain its peg. As NewsBTC reported back in December, UST has been gaining relevance across the DeFi sectors. The stablecoin allows holders access to the Anchor Protocol, Terra-based lending and borrowing application that consistently offered its users a 19.5% compounding yield on their UST deposits. This rate surpasses that of its competitors, some of which have issues offering a 10% yield with similar products. However, the current downtrend in the crypto market has heavily impacted LUNA and the Terra ecosystem. Some users believe the ecosystem as a whole could be in danger as a result of a reduction in Anchor’s reserves which according to some projections could reach $0 in the coming weeks. Without these funds, the protocol would be unable to pay off its users and due to Terra’s mechanism, it could trigger a fresh leg down across its assets. The pegged in UST has been offered in the past days, as more users seem to believe this theory. Thus, panic spreads amongst sellers looking to mitigate their losses. As of press time, UST has seen an important recovery as it hit a multi-month low of 0.98 versus the U.S. dollar. Terra (LUNA) Inventor Addresses Concerns Around Anchor Do Kwon, co-founder, and CEO of Terraform Labs, the entity behind Terra’s ecosystem, recently addressed the controversy generated around Anchor and UST. In an attempt to counterbalance the FUD, as some LUNA holder has called it, Do Kwon emphasized Anchor’s objectives. The first, he wrote on a Twitter thread, is to make market yields on stablecoins less volatile, while increasing the capital efficiency of the platform. Anchor’s Yield Reserve is a “centerpiece” to address these issues, but this component of the protocol can operate with a surplus or a deficit. Kwon said: Recently as leverage started to wind down from crypto markets, deposits have gone up a lot and borrowing down. The yield reserve has been running at a deficit to maintain the deposit yield. Users seem to believe that the Yield Reserve, Kwon said, should “always operate at a surplus”, and that the YR depletion will “have disastrous consequences”. The co-founder of Terraform Labs said that Anchor’s Yield Reserve was always designed to be used on current market conditions. On the second widespread concern by users, Kwon said that if the protocol runs out of funds in its Yield Reserve, it will “operate as a regular money market” still offering users around 15% to 16% in incentives. Therefore, he concluded that the protocol, and by extension the ecosystem, “will be fine”. Related Reading | NEAR Records 70% Rally On Terra Integration, Will It Close The Year In Profit? In the future, the team at Terraform Labs will make improvements to reduce “LUNA dominance in Anchor collateral under 40%”. In that way, a similar situation could be prevented. In the meantime, Kwon said: I am resolved to find ways of subsidizing the yield reserve. Anchor is still in the growth phase, and maintaining the most attractive yield in DeFi stable will strengthen that growth & build up moats.

I am looking for the basic papers on these things. I thought there might be a list or something somewhere. It's been a while since I've been at uni so I don't fully remember how to find the relevant stuff on google scholar. Thank you very much for any help. submitted by /u/VLADIMIROVIC_L…
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