Category: Bitcoin Analysis

Bitcoin showing similarities to small caps as it struggles to break $70,000, says Wolfe Research

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Bitcoin has been struggling to break out of its narrow range and reach new highs, and there’s doesn’t appear to be much hope for the cryptocurrency’s price in the near term, according to Wolfe Research. “Bitcoin continues to demonstrate its inability to successfully get through that stubborn $70k resistance level,” Wolfe’s Rob Ginsberg said in a note Wednesday. “It’s the same area where price stalled out in 2021 before going onto fall some 50% from the peak over the next three months” — before bitcoin hit another all-time high that…

Bitcoin just completed its fourth-ever ‘halving,’ here’s what investors need to watch now

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The Bitcoin network on Friday night slashed the incentives rewarded to miners in half for the fourth time in its history. The celebrated event, which takes place about once every four years as mandated in the Bitcoin code, is designed to slow the issuance of bitcoins, thereby creating a scarcity effect and allowing the cryptocurrency to maintain its digital gold-like quality. There may be some speculative trading on the event itself. JPMorgan said it expects to see some downside in bitcoin post-halving and Deutsche Bank said it “does not expect…

JPMorgan likes these mining stocks to play the upcoming Bitcoin halving

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While most of the public cryptocurrency miners are positioned to survive the supply shock of the Bitcoin halving, JPMorgan has named its top picks. “With the bitcoin halving on the horizon, we expect heightened volatility and trading volume in both bitcoin and mining stocks,” Reginald Smith, an analyst at JPMorgan, said in a note this week. “That said, we think recent weakness offers an attractive entry point, and are especially bullish on RIOT and IREN, which we think offer attractive relative valuations.” The Bitcoin halving is estimated to take place…

Bitcoin miners’ revenue is about to be slashed — what investors need to know

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The bitcoin halving is set to take place in the next few days, which will cut miners’ main stream of revenue in half. Scary as that sounds, the bigger, publicly-traded miners are well prepared to survive the halving and thrive, according to analysts — and given the recent weakness in mining stocks, investors may be staring at a big opportunity. “We believe a bitcoin price above $60,000-$65,000 means the halving is de-risked for nearly all public miners,” Needham analyst John Todaro wrote in a note to clients on Tuesday. It…

This bitcoin miner will distringuish itself after the halving, Rosenblatt says

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Some bitcoin miners won’t survive when the upcoming halving slashes their revenue in half, but the ones that do survive will thrive, and Rosenblatt Securities says TeraWulf is its top pick in the category. The firm initiated coverage of the bitcoin miner with a buy rating and $4.20 price target Tuesday. Shares were ahead almost 3% in early trading, bringing the past month’s gain to 14.2%. “WULF is our preferred way to allocate to bitcoin below spot prices, particularly among a not so shareholder-friendly pubco peer set,” Rosenblatt analyst Andrew Bond wrote…

This bitcoin miner will distinguish itself after the halving, Rosenblatt says

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Some bitcoin miners won’t survive when the upcoming halving slashes their revenue in half, but the ones that do survive will thrive, and Rosenblatt Securities says TeraWulf is its top pick in the category. The firm initiated coverage of the bitcoin miner with a buy rating and $4.20 price target Tuesday. Shares were ahead almost 3% in early trading, bringing the past month’s gain to 14.2%. “WULF is our preferred way to allocate to bitcoin below spot prices, particularly among a not so shareholder-friendly pubco peer set,” Rosenblatt analyst Andrew Bond wrote…

Bitcoin’s peak could be a harbinger of a stock market top next, Stifel says

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A bitcoin top could signal trouble for stocks – and a shift in market leadership, according to Stifel. According to Barry Bannister, Stifel’s chief equity strategist, there’s evidence the cryptocurrency may be peaking, which could lead to a pullback in investor sentiment, weaker Big Tech stocks, and a rotation into value, he said in a note Wednesday. “Bitcoin & Nasdaq 100 reflect the speculative fever fostered by cheap money after dovish Fed pivots, such as occurred 4Q 2023,” Bannister said. “We show that if Bitcoin reflects euphoria after a dovish…

Steve Cohen says he owns a ‘little bit’ of bitcoin because of his son

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Hedge fund billionaire and New York Mets owner Steve Cohen said he owns “very little” bitcoin, though he didn’t specify its value. “My son is really into it, and he had me play around and try to figure out how to transact on Coinbase,” Cohen told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Wednesday. The chairman and CEO of Point72 Asset Management, which has about $32 billion in assets under management, added that he doesn’t have strong opinions about the digital asset class. Still, he appears to be following along with investors across the…

Investors focused ‘overwhelmingly’ on bitcoin over other crypto, says BlackRock

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BlackRock’s push into crypto has been expeditious, but it may be hitting the brakes after bitcoin and ether. The January launch of bitcoin exchange-traded funds was a huge breakthrough for crypto that may have changed the market forever. That’s largely thanks to the unlikely endorsement of the asset class by the firm: BlackRock first filed for its iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) about seven months before the launch. Since then, the firm filed for an ETF that would track the price of spot ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap. The…

Gold could start to overtake bitcoin

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Gold has a chance to charge ahead of bitcoin as the flagship cryptocurrency hovers around the $70,000 level, according to Wolfe Research. The yellow metal and its digital counterpart have been trading in tandem with each other for the past month, with both reaching new records even as the stock market trades near its highs. However, bitcoin has also been mirroring its own moves from 2021, when the cryptocurrency rocketed twice to all-time highs, just before a deep pullback. “Bitcoin has historically traded like more of a ‘risk asset’ and…