In summary: Microstrategy has purchased 205 additional Bitcoin for $100 million bought at $48,888 each The company now holds 91,064 Bitcoin at an average entry of $24,119 The $47k Bitcoin price area is a level of macro support that has seen the movement of 500k BTC If Bitcoin fails to hold $47k, chances are that $42k is next The software company of Microstrategy has purchased an additional 205 Bitcoins for roughly $100 million. Each BTC was purchased at an average value of $48,888 bringing the total of Bitcoin owned by…
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Five mega exchanges hold 10% of Bitcoin’s entire supply
Roughly 10.6% of Bitcoin’s (BTC) circulating supply is currently held on just five centralized exchanges, according to data published by Chain.info. More than 1.96 million BTC is currently held between the major exchanges Coinbase, Huobi, Binance, OKEx, and Kraken. Likely owing to its custody services, Coinbase holds by far the most, with 944,904 BTC currently spread across approximately 4.39 million different wallet addresses. Huobi ranks second with 323,665 BTC held in roughly 901,600 unique wallets, followed by Binance with 289,961 BTC across nearly 2.7 million addresses. OKEx has 276,184 BTC…
Bitcoin’s Weekly Candle Just Closed—And We’re In the “Middle of Nowhere”
Just an hour ago, Bitcoin’s weekly candle closed after an eventual week in which the leading cryptocurrency surged from lows near $10,000 to a local high at $11,150. The coin now trades at $10,950 as of this article’s writing, slightly above the ~$10,850 weekly close. The cryptocurrency, while above the pivotal $10,000 technical and psychological support level, is purportedly still in the middle of nowhere on a macro time frame. Bitcoin will need to move above local range highs or lows to confirm a trend. Related Reading: Ethereum Transaction Fees…
World’s largest banks lost 3x Bitcoin’s market cap during the pandemic
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the world’s 14 largest banks have lost $635.33 billion in market capitalization. This is more than three times the current market capitalization of Bitcoin (BTC) and almost double the capitalization of all cryptocurrencies. Market capitalization of the world’s biggest banks. Source: Buy Shares. The starting point for this data is December 19. For reference, Bitcoin’s market cap at the time was $130 billion. As the world was entering the pandemic induced recession, six of the banks on the list had a market cap higher than…
Bitcoin’s $12.5K pump didn’t do much to impress Peter Brandt
Trader and head of proprietary trading firm Factor LLC, Peter Brandt, said Bitcoin’s (BTC) recent run up past $12,000 did not excite him as much as it did the rest of the market. “I never got super super excited about the advance in Bitcoin,” Brandt told Cointelegraph in a Sept. 9 interview. “I thought it was constructive — the advance we had in Bitcoin starting in late July” he said, noting the chart looked good. On July 27, Bitcoin definitively broke $10,500, a level which previously stood as a wall against…
No, a quantum computer won’t instantly reward you with 69,000 Bitcoins … yet
A Bitcoin wallet with nearly $700 million is up for grabs — but anyone intending to be a “crypto thief” and nab it will have to crack the password first. Crypto Twitter user Alon Gal has put out a call to his 29,900 followers for solutions on how to gain access to 69370.22 Bitcoin (BTC), worth roughly $695.4 million as of this writing. According to the Sept. 8 post from Gal, the wallet has been passed between hackers for the past two years without success at determining the password. Source:…
‘We’re getting paid to produce Bitcoins’ reveals Texas BTC miner
Texas crypto miner operator Layer1 Technologies has been able to sell back its power supply for 8X the price. According to a Sept. 1 Bloomberg report, Layer1 reported nearly 700% profits from selling excess electricity from its ‘Bitcoin Batteries’ – large-scale energy storage systems used on the firm’s crypto farms in Texas. When the power demand for air conditioning is highest in Texas — where it’s regularly above 37 degrees Celsius (100 in Fahrenheit) in the summer — Layer1 reduces or stops crypto mining as needed to send any unused…
Bitcoin’s Halving Incentivizes Miners to Sell for Double, Decred Co-Founder Says
Decred co-founder and project lead Jake Yocom-Piatt predicts that the coming reduction in Bitcoin’s (BTC) mining payout will have miners upping prices. “Since the Bitcoin halving means that miners will receive half as many Bitcoins for the same amount of work, this doubles the unforgeable costliness of creating Bitcoin,” Yocom-Piatt told Cointelegraph in a May 1 email, adding: “Miners’ costs are effectively fixed, so to maintain the same profit margins, they are incentivized to double the price at which they sell their Bitcoin. I expect this supply shock will drive the Bitcoin price up by moving…
Recap of Cointelegraph Talks: Bitcoin’s Block Reward Halving
As part of the most recent edition of Cointelegraph Talks on May 5, Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino, TradeBlock director of institutional research John Todaro, and Poolin mining pool VP Alejandro De La Torre came on today’s panel, bringing a bevy of insights on Bitcoin’s (BTC) upcoming halving, the COVID-19 pandemic and more. The current pandemic causes uncertainty Although Bitcoin largely lies outside the mainstream financial ecosystem the asset has still reacted to COVID-19 and its related mayhem. “COVID-19 has definitely had an impact on the space,” Todaro, said of crypto on May 5,…
More Industry Players Weigh in on Bitcoin’s Path Once Businesses Reopen
Industry players said Bitcoin’s (BTC) price could be impacted once U.S. governing bodies lift COVID-19 prevention measures, such as stay-at-home orders and business closures. “When the world economies begin to recover and come back online after printing, in the case of the U.S. government trillions of dollars, Bitcoin will most likely become more bullish than we’ve ever seen it,” Metal Pay CEO Marshall Hayner told Cointelegraph in a message, adding: “Altcoin markets with solid foundation and utility with strong usage will potentially move beyond previous heights as we will…