Short-sellers, who make money when the price of a targeted financial instrument declines, aren’t always popular with corporate or government leaders. Those on the receiving end of contrarian bets against stocks or currencies tend to portray them as sharks undermining people striving to build, grow and create value. This, if you’ll excuse the pun, is short-sighted.  Short-selling is a necessary part of any functioning, efficient financial system. It provides liquidity, ensuring there’s a… Source link

There are both bearish and bullish scenarios for Bitcoin in the foreseeable future. The bear cases surround two key data points: rising BTC deposits from whales to exchanges and BTC’s lack of retests of crucial support levels. The bull cases are based on HODLer activity, address activity, the market capitalization gap between BTC and gold, and the favorable technical structure of Bitcoin. Bitcoin surpassing $18,500 is critical for its near-term price cycle. There were large sell orders… Source link

Bitcoin’s price crossed the critical $18000 level recently and the weekly gain now stands at 11.44%. However, Bitcoin’s dominance is still at 66%. Since the price crossed $17000 without further resistance, the top 10 altcoins based on market capitalization have rallied. The weekly returns show gains in 9/10.  Litecoin is leading the rally with 30% weekly gains. The market capitalization has hit a 3-month high of $4,484,773,919.08. The previous 3-month high of $4,484,739,490.84 was… Source link

Bitcoin (BTC) hit new highs in excess of $18,750 on Nov. 20 as its latest extended bull run continued to delight investors. BTC price inches closer to all-time highs Data from Cointelegraph Markets, Coin360 and TradingView showed BTC/USD climb swiftly after reclaiming $18,000, taking out its previous high of $18,420 to continue rising. At press time, local highs of $18,817 took Bitcoin to within $1,250 of its all-time highs from December 2017. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: Tradingview The latest… Source link

Bitcoin prices surged 4% Friday to above $18,700 — inching closer to the all-time high of just under $20,000 from December 2017 — after BlackRock (BLK)‘s chief investment officer of fixed income, Rick Rieder, said in a CNBC interview that bitcoin is here to stay. “Do I think it’s a durable mechanism that could take the place of gold to a large extent? Yeah, I do, because it’s so much more functional than passing a bar of gold around,” Rieder said. The endorsement from BlackRock, which Source link

Ether (ETH) returned to $500 for the first time in more than two years on Nov. 20 as altcoins slowly staged a comeback from poor performance. Cryptocurrency market overview from Coin360. Ether price sees $500 after more than two years Data from Cointelegraph Markets, Coin360 and TradingView showed ETH/USD briefly hitting the psychologically significant barrier in Friday trading before a rejection halted progress. Despite being capped at roughly 6% daily gains at press time, Ether’s achievement… Source link

Litecoin price is up over 10% and it broke the $80.00 resistance against the US Dollar. LTC is consolidating gains and dips are likely to be limited below $78.00 and $76.50. Litecoin started a strong increase above the $75.00 and $80.00 levels against the US Dollar. The price traded to a new monthly high near $84.12 and settled above the 100 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break above a contracting triangle with resistance near $75.10 on the… Source link

The price of BTC has more than doubled since the Bitcoin’s third block reward halving in May. Or to be precise, BTC has gained 110% since the halving, with prices rallying from $8,566 on May 11, 2020 to test $18,000 as of this writing. According to a Nov. 19 report from crypto analytics firm Chainalysis, levels of liquidity and exchange flows have changed dramatically since the halving. The firm identifies illiquid, or investor-held Bitcoin, as “wallets that send less than 25% of Bitcoin… Source link

Bitcoin remains below its high set earlier in the week, but out of nowhere, Litecoin has surged an additional 13% today alone, capping off a 33% green week for the previously lagging altcoins. But why is the altcoin offered referred to as digital silver soaring so wildly compared to the rest of the crypto space, Bitcoin including? Here are a dozen or so key factors behind the Litecoin rally and why an end is nowhere in sight. Litecoin Soars 13% Intraday, Is A… Source link

Since topping out at $18,476 on Nov. 17, Bitcoin price has been flirting with the $18,000 level as bulls fight to flip the level to support and chase after the all-time high at $19,789.  While this battle takes place and the bulk of crypto and mainstream finance outlets focus on Bitcoin price, a number of less-loved crypto assets are producing generous returns for investors. DeFi Assets Index. Source: Messari As shown by Messari’s DeFi assets index, many of the top tokens are providing… Source link