Comparative chart of the potential price of bitcoin as a result of the Bitcoin ETF compared to the price of gold as a result of the Gold ETF
Читать полностью…Another sign of an improving situation in the cryptocurrency industry is the growth in the number of so-called cryptomats, that is, devices for transferring fiat currencies into coins and back. According to the Coin ATM Radar platform, the figure now exceeds 33 thousand units.
Its local bottom in this bearish trend was recorded in July 2023. At that time, there were just under 32 thousand such devices worldwide.
Interesting data from chainalysis. In lower-middle-income countries, cryptocurrency activity is still higher than before the boom.
Читать полностью…Bitcoin's 90-day volatility has fallen from 80 percent to 35 percent over the past year. Therefore, now the cryptocurrency is more stable in its price compared to oil.
The least volatile of the listed assets on the chart from Kaiko is gold.
The current collapse of ETH below $1650 has led to the activation of large investors. For example, the number of addresses with 10,000 to 10,000 ethers has increased by 1,788 units since the beginning of June.
The number of large transactions in the equivalent of $100,000 has also increased. Last week there were 23 thousand of them, which is the largest result since the beginning of May.
About 600 days have passed since Bitcoin peaked at $69,000. During that time, long-term investors have added 1.01 million BTC to their holdings.
Now they have 14.47 million coins, only 20 thousand behind the historical maximum.
Recall, long-term investors are those addresses who have not moved their cryptocurrencies for at least six months.
Here's a chart from IntoTheBlock analysts with the number of bitcoins that have been stored at their owners' addresses without any movement for at least a year. This week, the corresponding figure set another record in the history of BTC.
That means investor confidence in the first cryptocurrency is higher than ever.
The number of NFTs based on the Ordinals protocol in the Bitcoin network has exceeded the level of 10 million units! The 9 million level was taken last Wednesday, so the rate of NFT creation in this blockchain has dropped a bit.
But still not bad.
Meanwhile, the market believes that at the next meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on June 14, 2023 the representatives of the Fed may raise the base interest rate by another 25 basis points. It's all caused by problems in the global economy and the prospect of default on U.S. government debt.
This is bad news, because market participants earlier expected the situation with the rate to normalize. It was supposed to remain the same after the first summer meeting, and then go to the decline.
According to CoinShares analysts, trading volumes with Bitcoin increased most noticeably in 2023 in Japan and emerging markets like South Africa and Turkey. At the same time, in the most advanced markets, the indicator decreased.
In this case, we are talking about spot trades, i.e., trades that do not use borrowed capital from the exchange.
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In case you didn't know, typing an Etherium address into Google will show its balance in ETH. This is thanks to the Etherscan blockchain browser, which is where this data comes from.
The volume of tokens on the address does not show up in the output, but it's not bad either.
According to ScamSniffer, cryptocurrency enthusiasts have lost the equivalent of $4 million due to fake ads for blockchain platforms on Google.
The scheme is simple: a user searches a search engine for the site of a desired exchange, wallet or service (it is better to add sites to bookmarks) and ends up on a fake platform because of ads. The latter steal either user authorization data or more sensitive combinations like sido phrases that allow to get to the contents of the blockchain address.
To illustrate, here is an example of fake platforms in the search results for Zapper and Lido - they are highlighted with rectangles.
We need to be even more careful, in general.
The list of applications to launch spot Bitcoin ETFs in the United States has been supplemented by another relevant document. It was filed by Swiss asset management company Pando Assets, which already deals with ETPs (exchange traded products) on cryptocurrencies in Europe.
As Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas noted, the decision seems odd. Still, it's unclear what the company has been waiting for the last few months after BlackRock and other global giants filed similar applications.
The irony is when European Central Bank officials tweet about Bitcoin's supposedly "last gasp before the crypto-asset loses its relevance." And then it turns out that the day the tweet was published was the bottom of the market on the current bear trend 🙈
Читать полностью…Tonight, the owner of the Bitcoin address "17TZNT" moved 2995 BTC, which he bought in 2016 at a rate of $458. Before this, the last transaction was carried out by him in September 2017, so the hold lasted more than six years.
If the coins are now sold, the profit on them is almost $82 million. Initially, in 2016, the investor invested 1.46 million in 3200 BTC.
Fine.
In recent weeks, the share of Bitcoin trading on American crypto exchanges has increased from 39 to 46 percent. According to experts, such activity is caused by expectations regarding the approval of spot ETFs for BTC in the United States. Well, the trend intensified after Grayscale’s recent victory in court against the SEC.
Читать полностью…Ripple XRP was the most popular crypto asset in terms of trading volumes in August. The average daily amount of transactions with the coin was 462 million dollars, and this was clearly facilitated by the recent court verdict that it is not a security.
The top three also included Solana and BNB.
Here's a list of current applications to launch spot Bitcoin ETFs. This includes all deadlines for the relevant responses from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
As noted by Bloomberg analyst James Seyffarth, he estimates the prospect of approval of applications from BlackRock and ARK Invest at 50 percent.
Cryptocurrency is also being accumulated by Bitcoin address holders who have between 100 and 1,000 BTC. In total, they redeem about 36 percent of the coins mined by miners over the course of a day.
At the same time, so-called whales who have at least a thousand bitcoins are getting rid of the cryptocurrency. Their sales volume is equivalent to 70 percent of the coins mined.
Such is the difference.
The hacking of the popular decentralized wallet Atomic Wallet resulted in $35 million in losses for users, according to preliminary estimates. The developers say the incident affected less than one percent of monthly active users.
Only cold wallets protect your funds reliably, but even they get questioned from time to time. That's why broad diversification of your portfolio is the only right thing to do.
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Crypto-exchange OKX has prepared for the launch of spot trading Ordinals ORDI, one of the most popular BRC20 tokens based on the Bitcoin network. The platform has already opened support for corresponding user deposits. Well, trading in ORDI/USDT pair will start as soon as "deposits will meet the requirements" of the platform.
If anything, ORDI is the largest token in the Bitcoin blockchain by market capitalization and trading volume over the past 24 hours. Here's the chart.
Today, to get into the top 100 richest Bitcoin addresses, you need to accumulate exactly 10 thousand BTC, or the equivalent of $265 million. It is funny that this indicator has not changed over the last month, that is, large investors are not particularly active in changing their balance.
Читать полностью…Binance twice in a day closed VTC withdrawals due to network congestion. To solve the problem, the exchange decided to integrate Lightning Network.
In the last day clients withdrew from the exchange almost 200k BTC or more than $5.5 billion (CryptoQuant)
Speaking of network congestion, there are now 464,000 unconfirmed transactions hanging in bitcoin's mempool. Historically, this has been a reversal signal, after which we have often seen a long-term trend change.
PayPal announced the addition of cryptopayments to the Venmo platform, which it owns. Thus, users of the latter will be able to transfer digital assets to friends and relatives. The feature will be launched as early as May.
The interface of the new product is shown in the second image.
Bitcoin is near its all-time high in Argentina. This is due to the depreciation of the local peso due to the currency crisis in the country, which began in 2018 and continues today.
Specifically, the BTC to peso exchange rate has risen 106 percent since the beginning of 2023. So in this country, dealing with cryptocurrencies is practically a matter of survival.
Etherium is now a network for the very rich. Here are the average fees for various transactions in this blockchain at the moment 💀💀💀
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