Month: January 2024

Bitcoin (BTC) Price Plunges Below $41K as Bitcoin ETF Fever Breaks

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Bitcoin Price In Danger? This Terrible Story Could Happen Again

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The Bitcoin price has been moving steadily at its current but failed to meet general expectations. Following the approval of the spot Bitcoin Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), market participants were expecting potential scenarios. In these potential scenarios, Bitcoin pushed through critical resistance at $48,000 and continued making new highs, or the cryptocurrency retraced to $30,000. As usual, the market has avoided pleasing the crowd as BTC trades at $42,000. BTC’s price trends to the upside on the daily chart. Source: BTCUSDT on Tradingview Bitcoin Price Ready To Dip? The spot…

Donald Trump’s NFTs Have Limits Normal Ones Don’t

But buyer beware: the ordinals, as well as the 100 NFTs that one must buy to get it, cannot be traded by their owners until December 2024. The thread said this limitation is meant to restrict their appeal as “investment vehicles,” but in so doing, it also severely denigrates their appeal as NFTs. Source

$245 Million Whale Wakes Up To Threaten XRP Price Recovery

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A recent transaction by an XRP whale is currently threatening XRP’s price recovery. This particular address is known to have moved all their XRP holdings worth millions of dollars, a move that the XRP community fears could cause a downturn in the token’s price.  Whale Moves Over 443 Million XRP Data from blockchain tracker Whale Alert shows that an unknown address linked to crypto Bitvavo sent 443,112,410 XRP to another unknown address that is linked to Bitvavo. Interestingly, data from the XRP Scan shows that the receiving address was just…

Investors may miss out on this key tax loophole if they actively trade a spot bitcoin ETF

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Spot bitcoin ETFs are barely a week old, but tax attorneys and accountants are already warning investors who actively trade the funds the same way they do cryptocurrency itself that they may miss out on a tax saving strategy. Right now, investors who regularly trade cryptocurrency can take advantage of a quirk in the tax code : They can sell losing positions in bitcoin and ether, harvest this realized loss to offset taxable capital gains elsewhere in their portfolio, and then immediately buy back the crypto position on the cheap…

Bitcoin NVT Golden Cross Shoots Bullish Signal, Rally To Restart?

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Data shows the Bitcoin NVT Golden Cross indicator has recently dipped inside the undervalued zone, a sign that could be bullish for the price. Bitcoin NVT Golden Cross Has Entered The Bullish Territory An analyst in a CryptoQuant Quicktake post explained that the NVT Golden Cross has recently indicated upside potential. The “Network Value to Transactions” (NVT) is an indicator that keeps track of the ratio between the Bitcoin market cap and transaction volume. This metric is often used to determine whether the current price is fair. When the NVT…

Donald Trump Is the Latest Republican to Use CBDCs as a Dog Whistle

Trump joins many other leading Republicans in coming out against a CBDC. Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who came second to Trump in Iowa, was the first major candidate to speak out in opposition. Vivek Ramaswamy, a Bitcoin advocate, has said “hell no” to one. Tom Emmer, the House Whip, introduced a bill in Congress to ban a U.S. CBDC. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas did something similar in the upper chamber. North Carolina’s House of Representatives passed a bill to outlaw a so-called “digital dollar” there. Trump’s opposition to a…

The early winner in the bitcoin ETF race has raked in $1 billion

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An old-school asset management giant is flexing its muscle in the race to establish a foothold in bitcoin exchange-traded funds with a stellar first week. As Bernstein analyst Gautam Chhugani highlighted in a note to clients Thursday, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) has been an early winner among the spot bitcoin ETFs that were approved last week. The fund has amassed $1 billion in net inflows, and while trading volume has cooled somewhat after a massive first day, the fund already has cumulative volume of more than $2 billion. “We…