BitDigest March 5 · Issue #855

Mar 5, 2021
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BitDigest March 5 · Issue #855
BitDigest March 5 · Issue #855

Mining Stock Performance

🅱️Many investors have been looking to publicly traded miners as proxies for bitcoin. While BTC is up 425% over the past year, mining stocks have outperformed the underlying coin price with returns as high as 3000%. That said, there is real concern that miner pricing is frothy due to their valuations based on future hashing capacity (something I will address next week). For now, I want to take a look at the impact of the recent market resetting and how the miners have fared. Below you will see last night’s closing price for each of the North American publicly traded miners compared to their respective 52-week highs and corresponding decline percentage. As a comparison bitcoin has declined 17% since its $58,000 high on February 21st.

BitDigest March 5 · Issue #855

The Headlines

Market Data

Exchange, Custody and Product News

Thoughts on the Ecosystem

Reports you may have missed

MARKET UPDATE Crypto is broadly lower today as geopolitical conflict continues to weigh on risk assets, with BTC -1.73% falling to $60k and ETH -1.10% approaching the low $2,300s. Aptos (APT -0.11% ) is one of the few gainers in the top 100 tokens as they have strengthened their presence in Japan via an acquisition of HashPalette, a Japanese NFT service provider and developer of Palette Chain. AAVE -2.22% is also showing slight gains following...

CRYPTO MARKET UPDATE Crypto prices have rebounded slightly following yesterday's sharp selloff, with BTC -1.73% climbing back above $61,000 and SOL -1.10% moving above $145, while ETH -1.10% is lagging, trading around $2,400. Among today's outperformers is SUI -3.80% , which appears resilient despite a $115 million token unlock yesterday. Oil is partially retracing its early rally, gold is lower on the day, and yields are moving higher, suggesting at least a temporary reversal of...

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