A Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia working paper published this month found that public notifications of large crypto transfers were followed by sharply different trading activity on Bitcoin and Ethereum. Non-whale Bitcoin wallets became active and traded in the alerted whale’s direction most strongly during the first 15 minutes. Ethereum participation, by contrast, remained comparatively […]
Bitcoin’s path higher just got harder in the short term, but the setup further out may be improving, according to a new report. In a Friday note, European asset manager CoinShares’ Head of Research, James Butterfill, said firmer-than-expected core inflation raises the odds of tighter Fed policy and could cap bitcoin below $80,000 for now. […]
Bitcoin experienced another small blockchain reorganization on Sept. 11. The latest incident occurred at block height 966,500. Two different mining pools produced valid competing blocks built on the same parent block. SpiderPool’s version was treated as the tip of the Bitcoin blockchain after reaching Galaxy Research’s node. However, AntPool had independently produced another valid block […]
The leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, made a significant jump in August, climbing from around $62,000 to over $80,000. While this rise increased expectations that July’s $58,000 level was the bottom for $BTC, the recent drop has reignited debates about whether $58,000 was the bottom of the current market cycle. According to a seasoned analyst, on-chain data […]
Bitcoin trades nonstop, but a decade of data shows its volatility increasingly follows Wall Street’s clock. A recent study found that the nine hours from 13:00 to 21:59 UTC accounted for 50.6% of Bitcoin’s daily realized variance between 2022 and 2025, up from 38.4% in 2016-2018. Those hours represent just 37.5% of a full day, […]
Despite much of the Trump family launching a personalized meme coin at the time of the billionaire republican’s second inauguration, the commander-in-chief’s cryptocurrency has been taking up the bulk of the attention and the bulk of the volume. The latest trend, however, was that the digital asset themed after the First Lady – OFFICIAL MELANIA […]
A 3% return on Bitcoin can look like a single number on an allocation sheet, even when the economic bargain underneath it is completely different. Stacks said its first institutional Bitcoin Staking bond went live on Sept. 10 with roughly 250 $BTC committed by 21Shares, digital-asset manager HashKey Cloud, Bitcoin-focused investor UTXO Management and Sypher […]
Despite the war and U.S. economic data-driven slump in the cryptocurrency markets, two BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have been loading up on some of the world’s biggest digital assets. The iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHB) purchased $13.9 million worth of Ethereum (ETH) on September 10, marking its twentieth consecutive day of inflows […]
Since early August, Bitcoin’s market structure has strengthened as prices rose while exchange deposits declined. The price of Bitcoin [$BTC] increased by approximately 25%, from approximately $63,000 to approximately $79,000. In that time frame, most of the buying interest was coming from larger participants. Conversely, the amount of mid-sized coins going into Binance, Coinbase Pro, […]
Earlier this week, bitcoin $BTC$77,126.32 formed a golden cross, a technical signal that occurs when the price’s 50-day moving average rises above the 200-day moving average and is conventionally viewed as a precursor to a bullish rally. Historically, however, that’s often not been the case. Instead, bitcoin has tended to generate much of its return […]