Bitcoin trading volumes have collapsed in the past few days. According to data sourced from CoinGecko, daily Bitcoin trading volumes across major exchanges fell to as low as $14.5 billion on Monday, its lowest level since the 5th of March.
A recent development in the cryptocurrency world has sparked considerable interest: billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel has hinted that he may have met the individual or group behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin.
The number of Bitcoin wallets holding a non-zero BTC balance continues to rocket higher, hitting a new all-time high of 45.388 million on Sunday, as per data presented by crypto analytics firm Glassnode.
Bitcoin spot and derivative trading volumes have been surging in the past few weeks in tandem with the cryptocurrency’s aggressive rally from early monthly lows under $20,000.
A widely followed suite of on-chain and technical metrics are sending bullish signs for the Bitcoin price, with BTC/USD holding close to nine-month highs just above $28,000 as markets digest Wednesday’s US Federal Reserve policy meeting.
A top Russian MP and the chief architect of the nation’s crypto legislation claims that Bitcoin (BTC) has “no future” – and claims that “ruble-backed coins” will prevail instead.
The Chief Technical Officer of the Bitfinex crypto exchange has claimed that El Salvador’s long-awaited Bitcoin (BTC) bonds will launch this year “around June to September.” But the bonds, he explained, may not be bonds after all. Instead, the issuance could take the form of digital securities.
Despite the fact that most market participants interpreted the latest Fed policy announcement as more dovish than expected, hence the drop in the US dollar and US yields, Bitcoin markets saw a “sell the fact” reaction, with the BTC price pulling back sharply and long liquidations spiking.
According to technical analysts looking at the Bitcoin market on a short-term time horizon, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization looks like it could be on the verge of a breakout towards the psychologically important $30,000 level and perhaps on towards the next major resistance zone around $32,500-$33,000.
Bitcoin’s correlation to US equity markets just fell to its lowest level in more than a year and a half. That’s according to crypto analytics firm CoinMetrics, who present a chart showing that Bitcoin’s 30-day pearson correlation between Bitcoin and the S&P 500 just fell under 0.20, its lowest level since September 2021.
In a matter of days, investors' view on the outlook for the Bitcoin price has flipped from being bearish to bullish, as represented by a shift in options market pricing. The flip in investor sentiment comes as the Bitcoin price surges above the $28,000 level for the first time since early last June, taking gains since earlier monthly lows to over 44%.