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Bitcoin price fails to seal fresh CPI gains as $18K support hangs in balance

Bitcoin price fails to seal fresh CPI gains as $18K support hangs in balance

Bitcoin (BTC) wobbled at $18,000 at the Jan. 12 Wall Street open despite United States inflation continuing to fall. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Bitcoin traders stay wary post-CPI Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD encountering predictable volatility around the release of Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for December. The first such release of 2023, the event preceded the start of trading on Wall Street, with Bitcoin briefly gapping… Source link

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13% of BTC supply returns to profit as Bitcoin sees ‘massive’ accumulation

Bitcoin (BTC) hodlers are returning to profit as new data hints the BTC price has put in the “foundation” of a macro bottom. The latest figures from on-chain analytics firm Glassnode shows a large swathe of the BTC supply heading “into the black” as BTC/USD passed $18,000. Bitcoin establishes “massive” accumulation zone After gaining nearly 5% in 24 hours, Bitcoin is back on bulls’ radar ahead of a crunch United States inflation data release. What the impact will be remains uncertain,… Source link

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Samsung investment arm to launch Bitcoin Futures ETF amid rising crypto interest

Samsung investment arm to launch Bitcoin Futures ETF amid rising crypto interest

In Hong Kong, the bell rings for Bitcoin (BTC). Samsung Asset Management Hong Kong (SAMHK), a subsidiary of Samsung’s investment arm Samsung Asset Management, is set to list the “Samsung Bitcoin Futures Active ETF” on the Hong Kong stock market on Jan. 13. The move comes amid a surge in interest from both the government and institutional investors in the region. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Source: thetradenews.com The ETF, or exchange-traded fund, will track the spot price of Bitcoin by… Source link

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Bitcoin mining was booming in Kazakhstan. Then it was gone.

De Vries, the researcher, says that even if miners move on to cleaner energy sources, the industry still won’t be sustainable. All it will do is crowd out other consumers of clean energy in order to perform a function that, in his analysis, is entirely pointless. In September, Ethereum, the second-most-traded cryptocurrency, abandoned the “proof of work” model for generating coins—i.e., mining—for “proof of stake,” a complicated cryptographic process that doesn’t require… Source link

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Bitcoin, Ether rise as investors await US inflation data; Polkadot gains

Bitcoin, Ether rise as investors await US inflation data; Polkadot gains

Bitcoin and Ether rose in Thursday afternoon trading in Asia, along with all other top 10 non-stablecoin cryptocurrencies, as investors anticipate signs of slower inflation in the upcoming Thursday release of the U.S. Consumer Price Index for December. Polkadot was the largest gainer among the top 10, followed by Ether and Bitcoin. See related article: FTX loses Miami Heat stadium sponsorship Fast facts Bitcoin gained 3.96% to US$18,144 in the 24 hours to 4 p.m. in Hong Kong, and increased… Source link

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Bitcoin jumps above $18,000 to highest level in a month

Cemile Bingol | Digitalvision Vectors | Getty Images Bitcoin on Thursday surged to its highest price in nearly a month, as traders bet on an U.S. inflation cooldown and digest news that lawyers for defunct crypto exchange FTX found billions of dollars’ worth of assets, boosting hopes for its users. The world’s largest digital currency climbed above $18,000 for the first time since Dec. 14 late Wednesday, increasing in value by about 5% in the last 24 hours. Bitcoin was trading at $18,164.80 as… Source link

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Bitcoin jumps above $18,000 to highest level in a month

Cemile Bingol | Digitalvision Vectors | Getty Images Bitcoin on Thursday surged to its highest price in nearly a month, as traders bet on an U.S. inflation cooldown and digest news that lawyers for defunct crypto exchange FTX found billions of dollars’ worth of assets, boosting hopes for its users. The world’s largest digital currency climbed above $18,000 for the first time since Dec. 14 late Wednesday, increasing in value by about 5% in the last 24 hours. Bitcoin was trading at $18,164.80 as… Source link

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Bitcoin mining ETF tops equity ETF market in new year’s performance charts

With the start of the new year, the crypto market has seen a new bullish resurgence, with Bitcoin (BTC) and other altcoins hitting multi-month highs. Apart from the spot market, the equity exchange-traded fund (ETF) market is also dominated by BTC, wherein Valkyrie’s Bitcoin Miners ETF (WGMI) is the leading equity ETF market and is up by 40% year to date.  The Bitcoin mining ETF is not just leading the traditional equity ETF market but also the leveraged equity ETFs as well, which is… Source link

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Bitcoin Soars Above $18,000, Over $200M Shorts Liquidated

Bitcoin’s price has been performing quite well throughout the past week after weeks of prolonged consolidation. At the time of this writing, it increased above $18,000 for the first time since December 14th. BTC soared above $18,000, reaching as high as $18,370 (on Bitstamp) in Thursday’s early morning EU trading session. The last time the cryptocurrency was trading at these prices was on December 14th. Source: TradingView   The rest of the market also charted… Source link

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Bitcoin, Ether continue run up ahead of U.S. inflation report; Avalanche surges

Bitcoin, Ether continue run up ahead of U.S. inflation report; Avalanche surges

Bitcoin and Ether prices rose in Thursday morning trading in Asia along with most other top 10 non-stablecoin cryptocurrencies, continuing almost a week’s run of price gains on signs of slower inflation in the U.S. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for December will be released Thursday in the U.S., a key inflation indicator for the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policy. XRP posted the largest gains following developments in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s lawsuit against… Source link

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