It’s been a rollercoaster of a day for Bitcoin. Its price reached a historic all-time high above $100,000 earlier, followed by a plunge toward $98,000 moments ago. As CryptoPotato reported earlier, the move above $100K followed Donald Trump’s decision to make Paul Atkins the new Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. In the words […]
MARA Holdings, Wall Street’s largest publicly traded Bitcoin miner, has successfully closed a second $850 million offering of convertible senior notes. The company made the announcement on December 5 via an X post, outlining that the primary use of the proceeds will be to acquire additional Bitcoin and repurchase some of its outstanding convertible notes […]
Bitcoin’s price has claimed a new all-time high above $100,000 on Thursday morning – the first time the asset has ever cracked six figures in USD value. At this price, Bitcoin’s market capitalization is well above $2 trillion, about $1.2 trillion higher than where it stood at the start of the year. November and now […]
Bitcoin prices surged to a record high of $103,630 during early trading in Asia on Thursday, Dec. 5, according to Tradingview on Binance. The breakout of consolidation added more than 7% over the past 12 hours as the asset climbed from an intraday low of around $95,000. Bitcoin has now made a whopping 140% year […]
Despite bitcoin’s price turmoil over the past week, Ki Young Ju, the founder and CEO of the market analytics platform CryptoQuant, believes the leading digital asset’s dominance is less likely to decline soon. Historical data shows that alternative cryptocurrencies (altcoins) have always rallied when BTC retraces and seen a decline in market dominance during bull […]
Approximately 98,500 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, Nov. 29, in a large end-of-month expiry event. They have a notional value of $9.48 billion, which is more than triple that of last week’s expiry. However, it is still likely to be eclipsed by the end of December’s year-end event. Bitcoin Options Expiry This week’s […]
Bitcoin went through one of its most spectacular runs in recent history since the US elections three weeks ago, skyrocketing from under $70,000 to just shy of $100,000. After gaining more than $30,000 in less than a month, it was almost inevitable that the asset would eventually retrace, which happened yesterday as BTC was rejected […]
Crypto markets held on to gains over the weekend, and Bitcoin has remained in command, dominating the sector while the rest continue to sleep. Last week’s CPI data were in line with expectations, while producer-prices inflation was above estimates. However, markets retreated after Fed Chair Jerome Powell commented that policymakers are now on a more […]
Bitcoin experienced a short-term pullback at the end of the business week, slipping below $87,000 briefly after registering its latest all-time high of nearly $94,000 on Wednesday. However, the worst could be over as the asset has recovered most of the losses and currently sits above $91,000. At the same time, on-chain factors have emerged […]
Around 38,500 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, Nov. 15, and they have a notional value of around $3.4 billion. Today’s options expiry is pretty similar in magnitude to last week’s, as markets have remained buoyant for most of the week. However, analysts have cautioned that a correction is due following the largest rally […]