Fundamentals

Ethereum Issuance Drops Below Bitcoin’s For the First Time, Why This May Lead to a New Rally

Ethereum has been on a rally for the past week, moving from a two-month low at $1,700 to its current level at $3,223. Several factors have pushed the crypto market into a new rally, but most seem to gravitate around ETH and its ecosystem. ETH moves sideways into the weekend on the 24-hour chart. Source: ETHUSD Tradingview After the implementation of EIP-1559, Ethereum’s native token became a deflationary asset due to the change in its fee mechanism. To validate transactions on the network a portion of ETH is “burn”, meaning

Bitcoin bullish cross on weekly chart paints $225K BTC price target if history repeats

Bitcoin (BTC) is wowing the market by holding $50,000, but a bullish metric is pointing to much larger potential gains.Data from TradingView now clearly shows that the weekly moving average convergence/ divergence (MACD) indicator for BTC/USD has flipped from red to green.Time for another 5.5X BTC price surge?There is no shortage of bullish BTC price indicators this month, with everything from exchange balances to network fundamentals infirmly optimistic mode.MACD, which produced a rare crossover earlier in August, nonetheless adds the potential for upcoming gains to be an order of magnitude

Daily Created Ethereum Addresses Hits a Three-Year High

In more bullish news relating directly to Ethereum fundamentals, the second-largest crypto by market cap has seen the most new addresses created in a single day in the last 35 months. The cryptocurrency space has largely seen positive price growth, including the leading smart contract platform. Ethereum may be having one of its biggest years so far, as the system migrates over to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) verification with the launch of 2.0. Alongside this release, ETH witnessed a yearly price increase of around 4x as the Ethereum price flirts with the

Efforce (WOZX): Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak’s Cryptocurrency

Every so often a cryptocurrency is released that makes you a do a double take. Efforce (WOZX) is certainly one of those cryptocurrencies. Efforce was founded by world famous Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and WOZX cryptocurrency token went from a price of 10 cents USD to over 3$USD in its first days on the market. In just the first 13 minutes of trading, WOZX had an unrealized market cap of 950 million USD.Although this price action made the headlines both inside and outside of the cryptocurrency space, it seems that

Uncomfortable Truths of Trading And What to Watch Out For

There are some uncomfortable truths about trading crypto, which many people refuse to acknowledge. For instance, everybody — no matter how they play the market — is part of an emotional scheme. That means you, too. Thierry Gilgen, CEO of MachinaTrader, takes a deeper look into how social media channels dominate information about cryptocurrencies. The market is not purely mathematics. Raw human emotions play a big role, and that includes you potentially getting played. It is easy to be carried away while trading and make an emotional-based decision that results

98% of All Bitcoin Is Now Worth More Than When You Bought It

Bitcoin (BTC) has delivered gains to its holders on almost 98% of all days since 2013, new data confirms. According to a dedicated social media-based monitoring resource which tracks profitability, buying Bitcoin has made its holder richer on 97.6% of days.BTC profitability “characteristic of bull runs”Put another way, as on-chain analytics service Glassnode noted in its The Week On-Chain weekly report on Monday, 97.6% of Bitcoin unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs) are in profit.This means that only 2.4% of UTXOs were created — as part of a transaction between wallets — when

Analyst Who Predicted Bitcoin’s 2018 Bottom Expects a Move to $14k

Bitcoin is stagnating in the high-$11,000s once again despite Ethereum breaking higher. BTC trades at $11,800 as of this article’s writing, meaning the asset remains below the critical $12,000 level. An analyst thinks Bitcoin is poised to move to $14,000 in the near future. The analyst in question is one that has been historically accurate with his price calls. He famously predicted BTC would bottom 2018’s bear trend at $3,200 months before it did. Others think that BTC is primed to move to $14,000, citing technical and fundamental reasonings. Bitcoin

Gold’s Sharp Rebound After Rout Hints Bitcoin En Route to $12K

Gold’s sharp rebound after logging its biggest plunge in 7 years left Bitcoin (Symbol: BTCUSD) in a comfortable space. The benchmark cryptocurrency seemingly copied the precious metal’s retracement moves during the Wednesday session. At one point in time, it was trading at $11,148 (data from Coinbase), down 7.76 percent from its weekly top. But it bounced back ahead of the New York session, rising about 4.54 percent from its intraday low. The same happened to gold (Symbol: XAUUSD). The metal plunged by more than 10 percent from its record high

Cointelegraph Launches Newsletter for Professional Investors

Every 1st and 15th, Cointelegraph Consulting provides the latest inside scoop on cryptocurrency price action and rationale in its Market Insights newsletter. Here’s a preview of one of this month’s editions. Editor’s noteCrypto asset prices have flown upward in recent weeks, with various altcoins posting gains reminiscent of the great 2017 digital asset bubble. Assets such as Chainlink (LINK) and Band Protocol (BAND) have tallied triple digits percentage gains. Bitcoin (BTC), the industry’s pioneer asset, has also shown significant upside action. The asset travelled up slightly past $12,000 on Aug. 2 before

BitMEX Leaderboard Trader Fears Bitcoin Could See a Second “Flash Dump”

Bitcoin has slid lower over the past 24 hours as the cryptocurrency failed to surmount $12,000 in the latest leg higher. As of the time of this article’s writing, BTC trades for $11,600 — 5% shy of the local highs. Investors are still reeling from the flash crash that transpired approximately one week ago. While that was seemingly a black swan event, a trader is fearing a secondary event. The individual in question is a two-time BitMEX return on equity (ROE) leaderboard trader, meaning he has a strong track record.

Wall Street Veteran Explains Why He’s “Irresponsibly” Long on Bitcoin

Bitcoin has gained steam over recent weeks, hitting $12,200 last weekend as buyers rushed in. Analysts say that the cryptocurrency market has room to move higher due to technicals. But from a fundamental standpoint, some argue that BTC is more bullish than ever before. Raoul Pal, the CEO of Real Vision and a Wall Street veteran, recently touched on this. He told his Twitter following on August 6th that he’s “irresponsibly long” on Bitcoin due to the fundamentals. This Ex-Goldman Sachs Exec Is “Irresponsibly” Long on Bitcoin For This Reason