Institutions have not left the Bitcoin (BTC) market even in the face of a 50%-plus bearish correction earlier this year, shows data provided by Glassnode. The blockchain analytics platform reported on Monday that the dominance of Bitcoin transactions exceeding $1 million has surged twofold since September 2020 — from 30% to 70% of the total value transferred. Since retail investors do not typically engage in large-volume transactions, Glassnode guesses that the institutional investors might have been behind the spike in the $1 million–$10 million transaction group. Moreover, the platform noted that the Bitcoin network processed the said bulky transactions as …

Ether (ETH) has outperformed Bitcoin (BTC) in terms of year-to-date market performance, rising more than 320% against BTC's 54% returns. But according to Bloomberg Intelligence senior commodity strategist Mike McGlone, Bitcoin could soon catch up to Ether's gains, which might even push its per-unit price to $100,000. "If Bitcoin were to catch up to Ethereum's performance this year, the No. 1 crypto's price would approach $100,000," the analyst tweeted on Aug. 9 as BTC price broke above $46,000. While McGlone did not dwell on the factors that would have Bitcoin match Ether's yearly gains, his earlier report on cryptocurrencies cited …

The scale of Bitcoin’s (BTC) ongoing downside correction might not be as alarming as it was in 2018, indicates data shared by Glassnode. The blockchain analytics firm reported that investors who have held Bitcoin for more than one year showed a lesser interest in liquidating their investments versus those who held the digital asset for three to six months. Its dataset covered the period of Bitcoin’s correction from around $65,000 on April 14 to around $44,000 on Monday. On the other hand, all investor cohorts were instrumental in crashing the BTC price in 2018 from $19,891 to $3,128. With a …

Bitcoin (BTC) reached its highest level in more than two months, with just a few days remaining before the July inflation report. The top cryptocurrency climbed 1.65% to $45,363 on Sunday, continuing the upside momentum that had already seen it jump 21.62% from its low of $37,300 on Thursday. Momentum was strong among Bitcoin rivals as well. Ether (ETH), the second-largest crypto by market capitalization, increased 29.78% from its low of $2,630 on Tuesday, crossing $3,100 on Sunday. Its gains came after Ethereum’s London hard fork went live on Thursday, which should add deflationary pressure to the supply of ETH. …

Bitcoin’s (BTC) price reached as high as $44,600 on Saturday, the highest level since before the infamous May 19 crash. Meanwhile, there are increasing speculations that BTC could undergo a similar upside boom like the one that began in October 2020. At least two indicators expect Bitcoin to pursue massive uptrends. The first one is Glassnode’s entry-adjusted Net Unrealized Profit/Loss (NUPL), assists investors in determining whether the Bitcoin network as a whole is currently in a state of profit or loss. Understanding NUPL and its heat map An NUPL reading above zero indicates that the network is in a state …

On-chain analyst Willy Woo asserted that Bitcoin (BTC) would break above the $42,000-resistance level in its coming attempts. The researcher based his bullish analogy on the so-called Rick Astley indicator, a heat-map that tracks investors—the Rick Astleys of this world—that buy Bitcoin to hold the asset for longer timeframes. The indicator earlier predicted Bitcoin price spikes based on investors' buying activity below certain technical resistance levels. However, Woo noted that the "strong-handed long term investors are absorbing" the Bitcoin supply below $42,000, which raises the cryptocurrency's prospects of closing above the level. "Strong HODLers have been taking this opportunity to …

A crossover between two Bitcoin (BTC) moving averages that appeared before the 2020 price boom is hinting at making a return in 2021, just as the flagship cryptocurrency eyes a bullish breakout from its current $30,000–$40,000 trading range. The indicators in focus are the MACD Line and Signal Line. MACD is an acronym for Moving Average Convergence Divergence, and a MACD Line represents the difference between the 12- and 26-period moving averages. Meanwhile, a Signal Line is a nine-period moving average. Plotting the MACD Line and Signal Line together forms the so-called MACD Indicator, which allows traders to predict future …

Optimism from bulls is the leading sentiment of the day after Bitcoin’s (BTC) price made its way back toward the psychologically important $40,000 level. In addition to the reversal from this week’s local low at $37,500, Gary Gensler, the Chair of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, issued positive comments about the crypto industry and reaffirmed the goal of ironing out fraud in the ecosystem. Now that Bitcoin’s price appears to be back on the path to $40,000, here’s what analysts and traders are saying about the top cryptocurrency. Traders are waiting for $40,000 to flip from resistance to …

A recent run-down in the United States Dollar Index (DXY) stopped midway as investors awaited U.S. job data for a guide on the viewpoint for interest rates. Meanwhile, Bitcoin (BTC) moved inversely to the greenback. The DXY rose to its intraday high of 92.195 on Wednesday, up 0.45% from its Friday low of 91.782. The move upside took the index back above its 200-day exponential moving average (200-day EMA; the pink tide in the chart below), at 92.001. The wave was instrumental in protecting the index from aggressive declines in June, serving as support. Meanwhile, a break above the 200-day …

A combination of multiple indicators tracking Bitcoin (BTC) on the blockchain could continue the benchmark cryptocurrency’s price rally further into 2021, popular on-chain analyst Willy Woo anticipates. In his recent newsletter, the market researcher wrote that he expects Bitcoin prices to reach the $50,000–$65,000 range in the coming sessions. His comments appeared as BTC/USD reclaimed its three-month high above $42,600 only days after crashing below $30,000, the pair’s psychological support level. “My expectation is similar to BTC at $20k all-time-high in January, where the price is pinned close to the $40k-$42k ceiling over a period of days (2 weeks maximum) …

While Bitcoin’s (BTC) price has slipped by more than 8.2% after rising to $42,230, the 43.5% rally included 10 consecutive days of gains. But despite BTC currently trading at around $39,700 as of Monda, some analysts anticipate that it can rise by another 100%. Nunya Bizniz, an independent market analyst, posted the bullish setup on Sunday, noting that each of the cryptocurrency’s previous 10-day bull runs has ended up doubling its prices at a later stage. Therefore, if history repeats or rhymes, Bitcoin’s price can go up by more than 100% in the next 30–60 days. Bizniz noted that the …

Both small and rich Bitcoin (BTC) traders accumulated the benchmark cryptocurrency en masse during the period when its prices rose from below $30,000 to over $40,000, signaling their confidence in the asset’s long-term bullish setup. The basis of the upside outlook came from Ecoinometrics, a crypto-focused newsletter service. It highlighted in its latest edition a flurry of on-chain data that tracked the flow of Bitcoin into wallets that belonged to the richest crypto traders, known as “whales,” and to entities that held the cryptocurrency in smaller quantities — the so-called “small fish.” “After a couple of weeks of data showing …