AltCoins
A handful of altcoins posted double-digit gains while Bitcoin’s relief rally was halted by resistance at $34,000. Bitcoin’s (BTC) tumble below $30,000 was short-lived as the top cryptocurrency found a new wave of support, including a $10 million ‘buy the dip’ moment from MicroStrategy. Data from Cointelegraph Markets and TradingView shows the strong inflows have […]
Bitcoin’s lower support retest was bought up by bulls, preparing BTC for another push to $40,000. Calls for Bitcoin (BTC) to rally above $40,000 were dashed as the top cryptocurrency hit a wall of resistance which sparked a sell-off in the early trading hours. Data from Cointelegraph Markets and TradingView show the price of BTC […]
Bitcoin is charting a typical bull market correction amid increased expectations for price volatility.
Ethereum has plunged lower over the past day as a result of strong selling pressure in the altcoin market. It began with XRP, which began to drag lower after it was revealed that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would be suing the Ripple company. ETH now trades for $590 but traded as low […]
Altcoins have been rocketing higher throughout the past few days and weeks, reaping the rewards of a stable Bitcoin and high Ethereum prices. Tokens within the decentralized finance sector – commonly referred to as DeFi – have been some of the biggest beneficiaries of the recent market-wide strength. Yearn.finance is currently trading up well over […]
Polkadot’s native cryptocurrency DOT was among the biggest gainers in the last 24 hours even as other top altcoin projects reported losses. The DOT/USD exchange rate rose about 9 percent, hitting $4.93 as its intraday high during the European trading session Tuesday. The rally emerged out of nowhere, with no concrete fundamentals backing it as […]
Bitcoin Pauses To Build Momentum For Massive Bull Breakout Q2 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more The adverse economic events of the year have revealed the global economy’s susceptibility to natural disasters. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have also divulged that a stock market in the dumps is bad for investors that trade […]
Bitcoin has seen some notable upside today that has put a firm end to its multi-week bout of trading between $9,000 and $9,300. The cryptocurrency is now flashing some signs of strength as buyers attempt to propel it past its crucial near-term resistance at $9,500. It appears that this latest movement higher has come about […]
Altcoins have strongly outperformed Bitcoin over recent weeks, with some gaining dozens of percent as BTC has flatlined in the low-$9,000s. Analysts expect altcoins to soon underperform BTC as bullish momentum in the altcoin market peters out. The drop has already begun, with some of the altcoin market’s hottest properties, so to say, posting poor […]
Derivatives and altcoins are providing excitement as bitcoin spot trading stays dull.
Bitcoin flashed some subtle signs of weakness yesterday that sent shockwaves throughout the cryptocurrency market This caused many major altcoins to shed a significant amount of their value, putting at least a temporary end to the intense market-wide uptrend seen by Bitcoin’s smaller counterparts The crypto is now once again sitting just above its crucial […]
There’s been a strong move by many Bitcoin investors over recent weeks to accumulate altcoins. The premise of many of these investments is that one can potentially garner more BTC by trading popular altcoins, be that Cardano, Dogecoin, or otherwise. Pseudonymous analyst “PlanB” confirmed this. Citing a poll the prominent Bitcoin investor conducted, he wrote […]
Even compared to Bitcoin, altcoins have done well for themselves over recent months. As one crypto data analyst observed early last month, BTC has actually underperformed small cap, medium cap, and large cap altcoins. Some argue that this a byproduct of better technology; others say that altcoins were oversold and are seeing a needed relief rally. […]
It’s been an incredibly strong year for altcoins thus far. Versus Bitcoin, many have outperformed. As reported by Bitcoinist previously, the small-cap, medium-cap, and large-cap altcoin indexes from crypto exchange FTX have outperformed Bitcoin since the start of 2020. Bitcoin vs. low-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap altcoins chart shared by cryptocurrency trader Ceteris Paribus (@Ceterispar1bus on […]
Ethereum’s budding decentralized finance ecosystem has gone parabolic over recent weeks. The value of cryptocurrencies locked in DeFi applications has skyrocketed to $1.65 billion, 65% higher than this metric was just 12 days ago. Simultaneously, the number of users leveraging applications like Compound, Maker, and Synthetix has skyrocketed. Unfortunately, a purported hack just took place […]
Throughout 2017 and 2018, many altcoin-advocates pointed to Bitcoin’s lack of transactional speed as a reason why it would be usurped by other smaller alternatives. “Speed” naturally became a selling point of many altcoins. That being said, this was not enough to generate any type of investor interest or extreme utilization. One prominent Bitcoin investor […]
It’s been an explosive past few weeks for altcoins but not for Bitcoin. As the leading cryptocurrency has stalled in the $8,000s and $9,000s as BTC investors have found themselves at an impasse, certain altcoins have ripped higher. Just look at the table below, shared by Taha Zafar. It shows that over the past week […]
Another week, another round of Crypto Tidbits. It’s been yet another volatile week for the Bitcoin market, just like the last. This week, the leading cryptocurrency made an attempt at breaking the crucial $10,000 resistance yet again, rallying as high as $10,050 on some exchanges and $10,160 on BitMEX. Many were quick to think that […]
The aggregated cryptocurrency market has been struggling to spark a macro uptrend due to Bitcoin’s inability to break above $10,000 This has led it to form some heavy resistance just above its current market cap – with this level potentially being insurmountable in the near-term Analysts are also pointing to altcoins severe underperformance of Bitcoin […]
The crypto market is flashing some overt signs of weakness as Bitcoin leads most major altcoins lower Although some smaller tokens have been able to escape these losses, the aggregated market recently tapped a major resistance level, opening the gates for major downside This has led traders to widely note that Bitcoin and other major […]
Bitcoin has long been referred to as the digital counterpart to the scarce physical asset and precious metal, gold. But could altcoins be the digital silver to Bitcoin as digital gold? According to an incredibly bizarre correlation, altcoins are nearly perfectly tracking alongside silver, albeit across different timeframes. What exactly does this mean, and is […]