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BTC HASHRATE NEARING ALL-TIME-HIGHS Bitcoin’s (BTC) hashrate is near all-time-highs ahead of the halving. (I warned you, you will hear a lot about this event this week). As of this morning, BTC’s hashrate is up 8.3% to 132.55 Ehash/s (this equates to 132 quintillion or “132,000,000,000,000,000,000” attempts to solve for a block per second. The increase makes sense as bitcoin mining rigs – even of the older generations – are believed to be profitable above...
THE TEN RULES OF BITCOIN INVESTING Cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin (BTC) have been around for over a decade, a time period in which they are solidly up. However, as an asset class the believers in it are few, to go by the minuscule amount of money invested, 0.1% of the total, vs. other financial assets. Still, as I have noted before, Bitcoin has shown and continues to show great resilience, such...
THE HALVING IS COMING May 2020 will be known as the month of the third bitcoin (BTC) halving so get used to hearing about it. If you don’t know, the halving is when a block reward is reduced by 50% – in this case BTC’s reward will be cut from 12.5 BTC to 6.25 BTC. The halving happens every four years and is currently expected to occur on May 12th...
Great week to be invested in public crypto stocks. Almost all names outperformed 5% 7-day S&P returns. THE HEADLINES [Members Area Crypto] 116TH CONGRESS INTRODUCED 32 CRYPTO / BLOCKCHAIN BILLS www. forbes. com Members in the House of Representatives and U.S. Senators have introduced a total of 32 bills in the 116th Congress related to digital currency and blockchain policy: 12 bills address the use of cryptocurrency in potential terrorism,...
BTC RECAPTURES A KEY TECHNICAL THRESHOLD ACCELERATING ABOVE ITS WIDELY MONITORED 200-DMA. BTC surged above a key resistance level at its 200-dma toward its next resistance near 9K coinciding with a 76.4% retracement of the Q1 decline and the early March highs at 9.2K. _GIVEN DAILY RSI AND THE 4-HOUR RSI HAVE NOW MOVED INTO OVERBOUGHT TERRITORY, OUR EXPECTATION IS FOR A SHORT-TERM PAUSE PULLBACK TO DEVELOP WITH FIRST SUPPORT...
PORTFOLIO STRATEGY Bitcoin and crypto markets have had a very strong week. We expect the strength could very likely continue over the next week and a half as we approach the Bitcoin halving on May 12th. If you are a longer term investor without crypto exposure, this is still not a bad time to be dipping your toe in the water and gaining that initial allocation, but be comfortable with...
Technical Roundup is currently neutral on bitcoin (BTC) but a close at the current $8,000 level would shift their bias. In fact, a close over $7,730 would be viewed as bullish. THE HEADLINES [Members Area Crypto] CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS ASK TREASURY TO USE BLOCKCHAIN FOR ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS www. coindesk. com Members of the Congressional Blockchain Caucus have written to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin requesting that the Treasury Department begin to “utilize...
WHAT ARE THE RISKS? Following March lows, the global macro picture has improved, and crypto prices have risen by nearly 55% in tandem. Our calls for bullishness near the market bottom came with the recognition of current uncertainties at the time, but our caution in several of those areas has since diminished. But risks remain and we’re are keeping an eye on them. In terms of market structure: (1) crypto...
The Crypto Fear & Greed Index jumped this week to “27” moving into the ‘Fear’ range after residing at “17” or ‘Extreme Fear’ last week. The positive move in sentiment brings the index to the high levels it has been at since falling in early March. The Index hit a high of “28” yesterday. THE HEADLINES [Members Area Crypto] BANK OF CHINA EXPANDS DCEP TO SIX MORE AREAS www. cointelegraph. com The...
THE HEADLINES [Members Area Crypto] PORTUGAL UNVEILS TECHNOLOGY FREE ZONES TO PROMOTE BLOCKCHAIN INNOVATION www. cointelegraph. com Portugal has announced plans to create “Technology Free Zone” to allow the innovation and experimentation of new technologies like blockchain. The government believes the structure of their zone will expand beyond the regulatory sandboxes used in other countries by using a more coherent and aligned approach to developing public and private products and...
