Wonderland endured a turbulent week of revelations and risks closure, Wormhole was hacked for the second-highest ever DeFi sum, and the Ethereum hash rate hits a new high — all coming to you in this week’s Finance Redefined.
Edit: the amount of people who think that I think the super bowl holds any meaningful value is too high. Please reread what a hype event is. Hype events aren’t logical they’re built on greed. TLDR: The market is likely being pumped in anticipation of the Super Bowl acting as a hype event. It might…
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Title says it all, tried to look at my portfolio on Coinbase just now and what a surprise: Investigating Latency We're investigating latency on Coinbase.com and the mobile app and difficulty with trades / payments. Our teams are working to restore full service ASAP. Interesting that the exchanges never go down when the market crashes.…
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The Bank of England (BOE) raised the country’s benchmark bank rate from 0.25% to 0.5% this week in order to curb rampant inflation. “We face a trade-off between strong inflation and weakening growth,” the British central bank’s governor Andrew Bailey told the press. Furthermore, when asked by a BBC reporter if BOE members were urging […]
Bitcoin seems to have shot past its $40k barrier in a matter of hours, and it is likely to continue considering how many people are shorting the market right now. Crypto hasn't yet lost its steam and it was dragged down by the stock market for the past few days. This has accumulated A LOT…
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The government says that mining “presents challenges to the infrastructure of the concession area to which they are connected.”
BTC and altcoins finally broke above their respective overhead resistance levels, but the actions of traders over the next few days will determine whether bulls are back in control.
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A quant explains why the current high Bitcoin leverage ratio values may mean that more price drop could be coming soon. Current Bitcoin Leverage Ratio Is At High Values As explained by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, the current BTC leverage ratio has high values, and if past pattern is anything to go by, a correction may be coming to the price soon. The “estimated leverage ratio” is an indictor that’s defined as the value of the Bitcoin open interest divided by the reserve of all exchanges. In simpler terms, what this metric tells us is the amount of leverage that an average user is making use of at the moment. When the value of this indicator rises, it means investors are taking on more risk as they are increasing the leverage on their positions. During such a trend, the volatility in the price of BTC may also go up. At sufficiently high values of the ratio, the market may be considered overleveraged, and a liquidation squeeze could follow to wipe out the excess leverage. Related Reading | Market Re-Enters Extreme Fear Territory As Bitcoin Declines To $36k In a liquidation squeeze, a big swing in the price causes a cascade of futures liquidations that amplify the price move further. Now, here is a chart that shows the trend in the Bitcoin leverage ratio over the past year: Looks like the value of the indicator has been high recently | Source: CryptoQuant In the above graph, the quant has highlighted the different regions where the Bitcoin leverage ratio sharply dropped. Along with that, the direction of the price following these liquidation squeezes is also marked. Yellow indicates a long squeeze. During such an event, the price of the crypto declines along with the indicator. Similarly, green marks a short squeeze where the price moves oppositely to the ratio. Related Reading | Bitcoin On-Chain Demands Suggests That The Market Has Reached Its Bottom In the period of the chart, most of the liquidation incidents have involved longs. As you can see in the above graph, the ratio has now once again risen to quite high values. The quant thus believes that we may see another similar yellow region soon as the probability of it has been higher during such bearish market conditions as now. However, the pattern of another indicator, the Bitcoin volatility index, rather suggests that a short squeeze may be coming next. In such an outcome, the price of the coin will be bullish. BTC Price At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s price floats around $37.9k, up 4% in the last seven days. The below chart shows the trend in the price of the crypto over the past five days. BTC’s price has once again surged to around $38k | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView Featured image from Unsplash.com, charts from TradingView.com, CryptoQuant.com
