Bitcoin held close to yearly highs just below $25,000 on Monday, with the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization higher by about 2.0% on the day after rebounding strongly from a brief dip back under $24,000 earlier in the session. Bitcoin’s rebound from the $21,000s last week and ongoing resilience has surprised many analysts.
Another key metric is flashing a Bitcoin buy signal. That’s according to a tweet by popular crypto analyst/influencer Mohit Sorout. According to Sorout, the so-called DCA Indicator, which he called “the mother of all BTC bullish signals” has flashed for only the fourth time ever.
Earlier this week, eight out of eight key on-chain and technical indicators tracked by crypto analytics firm Glassnode’s “Recovering from a Bitcoin Bear” just signaled that the next Bitcoin bull market might be here. That was the first time that all eight indicators had been flashing a BTC buy signal in unison since March 2016.
Bitcoin funding rates on margin positions jumped to their highest levels in over two weeks in the past two days, according to data from the OKX and dYdX cryptocurrency exchanges and presented by crypto analytics website coinglass.com. Positive funding rates suggest that speculators are bullish and suggest that long traders are paying funding to short traders.
Bitcoin short-sellers have taken a battering in the past two days. That’s according to data presented by crypto derivative analytics website coinglass.com, which shows liquidations in short Bitcoin future positions worth around $100 million across major exchanges over the past two sessions, during which time Bitcoin has gained an impressive 8.5%.
American billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban continues to remain bullish on Bitcoin, saying that he even prefers investing in the digital asset over gold.
The miners who power the Bitcoin network, and are still largely incentivized to do so via the printing of new BTC tokens, are benefitting from an uptick in daily network fees, according to data provided by crypto analytics firm Glassnode. At present the Bitcoin network rewards its miners with 6.25 Bitcoins for every block that it mined (about every 10 minutes), though the Bitcoin network also charges a small fee for transactions, which also goes towards miners.
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In wake of Tuesday’s US Consumer Price Index (CPI) data, which confirmed an expected jump in MoM price pressures and revealed a smaller-than-expected decline in the YoY rate of inflation, Deribit’s Bitcoin Volatility Index (BTC DVol) surprised some analysts by remaining broadly unchanged. The lack of movement in the BTC DVol, which was last at 48 on Wednesday versus 50 on Monday and remains not far above record lows, matches the post-CPI mood seen in the Bitcoin market.
A top analyst at the major US bank Wells Fargo has predicted that the bear market in stocks is over for now – a prediction that could also be good news for crypto.
Despite the recent pullback in cryptocurrency markets from multi-month highs hit earlier this month, options markets suggest that traders still have relatively subdued volatility expectations. Deribit’s Bitcoin and Ethereum Volatility Indices both remain close to record lows, according to data provided by The Block going back one year.
After dominating crypto inflows for most of the year so far, Bitcoin fell out of favor in the eyes of investors last week. That’s according to the latest weekly Digital Asset Fund Flows report produced by crypto analytics firm CoinShares, which tracks investment flows into and out of digital asset investment products. Bitcoin fell back under $22,000 last week for the first time since mid-January last Thursday, and ultimately dropped 5.0% last week.
The market capitalization of Bitcoin (BTC) could reach as much as $200 trillion over the next nine years, if the legendary bitcoiner Adam Back is to be believed.
Bitcoin options markets are signaling that investor sentiment has hit a new low for the year, as investors face a mounting wall of worries including the prospect of a regulatory crackdown in the US and a possibly more hawkish US Federal Reserve monetary policy outlook. That’s according to data provided by crypto analytics firm The Block, which showed the widely followed 25% delta skew of Bitcoin options expiring in seven days hit its lowest level of the year on Friday the 10th of February.
The ratio between all Bitcoins moved at a profit and loss fell below 1 for the first time in more than two weeks on Thursday the 9th of February, according to data from crypto analytics firm Glassnode. The so-called Bitcoin Realized Profit/Loss Ratio fell to 0.9189 as Bitcoin’s price slumped to a new near-three-week low under $22,000 amid concerns about 1) a US regulatory crackdown that is for now focused on US-based crypto staking service providers, but could soon spread to other parts of the industry and 2) concerns that the Fed might end up raising interest rates more than expected this year.