Category: Cryptocurrency News

Crypto- and blockchain-focused capital raises continue to make headlines as venture funds look to support the emergence of Web 3.0.

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Since tether is at risk of collapsing, wouldn't it be smart to borrow as much tether as possible to buy more eth? because if you borrow 50k of tether and you use it to buy bitcoin and tether collapses, you still keep the bitcoin on your hardware wallet and you don't have to pay the…
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FreeRossDAO buys the Silk Founder’s NFT created from prison and auctioned off via SuperRare to fund future efforts to free Ulbricht.

This latest buy from MicroStrategy (Michael Saylor's Company) of Bitcoin has made this inequality very apparent to me- the big becomes bigger and the small becomes smaller. (proportionately speaking) The most shocking figure for me was that the majority of people- close to 85% of the total wallet address who holds BTC- holds less than…
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The Worldwide Asset eXchange (WAX), a blockchain platform and NFT network, announced that OKEx Blockdream Ventures, an investment subsidiary under crypto trading platform OKEx.com, is backing the WAX Blockchain Ecosystem, purchasing a substantial position (quantity undisclosed) in WAXP tokens. WAX processes 15 million transactions daily including two-thirds of all game-related transactions with over 450,000 daily…
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I had a small amount of money (to me) in crypto through October. In late October, I decided to slap a larger chunk of change into crypto. The market was booming and media analysts were calling for $100k BTC by EoY, $10k ETH by EoY. Reddit DD wasn’t that different, most was very optimistic. Maybe…
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On-chain data shows Bitcoin inflows are trending up, a sign that whales might be increasing their dumping. This could prove to be bearish for the coin. Bitcoin Inflows Move Up As Whales Continue To Sell As pointed out by a CryptoQuant post, on-chain data highlights that BTC inflows to exchanges have been going up. The “all exchanges inflow” is an indicator that shows the amount of Bitcoin that holders are depositing to exchanges on a given day. When the value of this metric moves up, it means more investors are sending their coins to exchanges. Holders usually deposit their BTC for withdrawing to fiat or for purchasing altcoins. So, this could be a sign of dumping, and may be bearish for the price. On the other hand, when the inflows decrease in value, it implies not many investors are depositing their Bitcoin to exchanges. Such a trend may mean that holders aren’t interested in selling at the moment. Now, here is a chart that shows the trend in the value of the BTC inflows over the past few months: Looks like the indicator’s value has been trending up recently | Source: CryptoQuant As the above graph highlights, BTC inflows have been on the rise lately. Before the crash in early December, the total inflows showed a sharp spike. Related Reading | Weekend Volatility Awakens Bitcoin Buyers, Active Addresses Following the crash, the indictor calmed briefly before observing big spikes again. This may show that selling in the market might still be continuing. The above chart also has curves for two other indicators, the top ten whale inflows and the total inflow seven days mean. The latter, as its name already suggests, is just the seven days mean value of the normal metric. While the former is a metric that shows how the top ten whale inflows contribute to the total inflows. Examining the graph, it seems like this indicator also had a spike recently, showing that whales might be increasing their dumping. Related Reading | Bitcoin Hovers Below $50k After Weekend Wipeout – Crypto Roundup, Dec 6, 2021 Such a trend has usually been bearish for the price of the cryptocurrency. However, it hasn’t always been the case. But given the recent market environment, signs may not be in BTC’s favor. BTC Price At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s price floats around $49.1k, down 13% in the last seven days. Over the past month, the crypto has lost 27% in gains. The below chart shows the trend in the price of BTC over the last five days. BTC’s price looks to be moving sideways again | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView Since the crash, Bitcoin has mostly been in consolidation. Currently, it’s unclear when the coin might show some recovery. Featured image from Unsplash.com, charts from TradingView.com, CryptoQuant.com

The stock markets and Bitcoin’s price performance might be hitting a bumpier road after the next Consumer Price Index release. During the year the Fed has been clear about an upcoming tapering, and now that new –and higher– CPI metrics are expected, the taper is likely to fasten its pace and the markets to suffer. The central bank is expected to start reducing its net asset purchase month by month by $10 billion for Treasury securities and $5 billion for agency mortgage-backed securities. This has raised fear over the traditional and crypto markets as prices are expected to be affected by a reduction in the global market’s liquidity. Previous tapering scenarios have seen yields fall and government bond prices rise. Costumers who have experienced the rise in prices this year have low expectations for the Consumer Price Index’s results to come. The red signals send a reminder of Jerome Powell’s previous words: “we are prepared to adjust the pace of purchases if warranted by changes in the economic outlook,” Similarly, James Bullard, President of Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, had said in an interview with Bloomberg that they could “move faster” and speed of the taper “if it is appropriate”. I think it behooves the committee to go in a more hawkish direction in the next couple of meetings so that we are managing the risk of inflation appropriately, Bullard’s comments followed the U.S. Labor Department October’s report of a 6.2% yearly rise in the consumer price index, a 31-year high. This “further aggravated the market’s concerns about inflation, voices for accelerating Taper has become increasingly loud” said Huobi Research. It is not the first policy retreat for the Fed, but it is seen as the most dramatic one, as it is a turnaround from unmatched support to financial markets. The general question now is whether it will look “appropriate” after the CPI report. If so, the markets are looking red to the experts. Related Reading | Why Closing Out The Year Below $50,000 Could Be Bad For Bitcoin What Happened To The Bitcoin $100k Dream? At the beginning of November, Bitcoin dipped –falling almost by $2000– as the Federal Reserve announced it would gradually reduce the bond purchase. Powell had accepted that U.S. inflation numbers are not “transitory”, thus suggesting accelerating the taper as he saw a stronger economy and hot inflation. There are current considerations of wrapping things up a few months earlier than initially planned. The future two-day meeting on December 14-15 will tell if the Fed will double its taper pace to $30 billion a month. A faster taper could be used to fight the surging inflation by raising interest rates earlier, but this could bring times of high volatility for the markets. Louis Navellier, one of Wall Street’s famous growth investors, had commented: The Fed is tapering, and this should create a correction in risk assets, of which bitcoin is a part. The more the Fed tapers, the more volatility we should see in both stocks and bonds — and yes, bitcoin, too. Huobi Research explained that the projection behind the previous expectation for Bitcoin’s price to flirt with $100k by the end of this year “ignored the impact of external macro changes on the market.” The Huobi report claims “the extremely loose monetary policies” –the central bank’s release of liquidity– during times of Covid was also carrying Bitcoin’s price uphill –as well as other risky assets– to the remarkable surge we saw this year. That also means the taper is “the turning point of global liquidity growth”. As we observed during March last year, due to the shortage of market liquidity, Bitcoin price dropped by nearly 50% in one day… The concerns about inflation have turned into a difficult landscape the future prices for various high-risk assets. However, this wouldn’t be Bitcoin’s first low, and we have seen it bounce back before. Related Reading | Despite Red Bitcoin, On-Chain Signals Flip Green