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Seeing the value of your portfolio fluctuating can keep you up at night or push you to sell when prices are low, especially in a fast moving market like cryptocurrency. Luckily, there are ways to mitigate that.
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AtomicPay’s CEO believes that scams and volatility are the primary things holding back public mass adoption of cryptocurrencies. The Thailand-based company is a non-custodial crypto payment processor. They are one of the few crypto payment processors that facilitates payments for multiple cryptos without holding merchant funds in escrow and charging a fee before releasing funds.
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By CCN.com: In the last 48 hours, despite the withdrawal of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and VanEck Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), the Bitcoin price has increased from $ 3,511 to $ 3,657 by nearly two percent. Although the lack of a major price movement following a highly anticipated event like the VanEck ETF withdrawal demonstrated
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Bitcoin (BTC) has shown decent momentum to end the week, pushing its price back over $ 3,700 to around $ 3,750, before settling in around $ 3,725. While Bitcoin has been relatively quiet since the beginning of the year, a recent report suggests futures trading volatility has steadily been on the rise. “So, the New Year is underway and […]
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In today’s edition of The Daily, we cover a number of stories that are of importance to cryptocurrency traders. A new trading platform is set to offer tokenized securities, Ledgerx releases a volatility benchmark based on U.S. BTC options, and the police investigate an exchange that suffered a significant security breach.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average enters Tuesday seeking to snap a streak of two consecutive losing sessions, but the specters of the Brexit vote and earnings season threaten to derail the index’s mid-week recovery. The cryptocurrency market, meanwhile, continues to flash green, as bitcoin and other large-cap assets cling to Monday’s recovery while bracing for
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Following Christmas and a strong corrective rally on Christmas Eve, the crypto market lost over $ 18 billion within a 48-hour period. The Bitcoin price dipped below the $ 3,800 mark after a promising price surge to $ 4,300 and the Bitcoin Cash price suffered a large decline from $ 230 to $ 170 within a one-week span, losing 26
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SFOX, an institutional crypto trading platform, recently released a comprehensive, data-packed analysis on the possible causes of the volatility in the cryptocurrency space over the month of November.
The report, which SFOX released on their website, covers a large amount of raw data, looking at factors such as price fluctuation on a day-to-day basis and trading volume. With the data, SFOX presents arguments on the overall volatility of various prominent cryptocurrencies, and their methodology includes the volatility of the S&P 500 and gold for comparison.
Over the past 12 hours, the price of Bitcoin, which was dangerously close to breaching the $ 4,000 support level, surged from $ 4,050 to $ 4,560, by more than 12 percent. On Coinbase and major fiat-to-crypto exchanges like Bitstamp and Kraken, Bitcoin dropped to as low as $ 4,030 for a brief period of time and recovered to
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Bitcoin (BTC) volatility has now reached record low on major exchanges. The price is preparing for a reversal and risk taking has returned to the market. We have seen most altcoins rally against Bitcoin (BTC) the past 48 hours. This further confirms our view that the trend is about to reverse and Bitcoin (BTC) is going to enter a period of gradual ascend. As we have seen in the past, this is the period where most altcoins rally against Bitcoin (BTC). The same has started to happen this time and the altcoin market confirms it. This means that all those people waiting for Bitcoin (BTC) to make a 5x or 10x moves from here on out to reach a new ATH is not going to happen. Instead, altcoins are going to have their rally first.
Bitcoin has been unusually stable in recent weeks, and the decrease in volatility has now reached historic levels in the futures markets. Bitcoin Volatility Hits Record Level in Futures Markets That’s according to Kevin Davitt, senior instructor for The Options Institute at CBOE Global Markets, who said that Chicago-based derivatives exchange saws record low volatility … Continued
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Over the past several weeks, the bitcoin price has been uncharacteristically stable, even as equities have lost their footing and the global stock market has flirted with corrective territory. Tom Lee, the founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors and one of Wall Street’s most well-known bitcoin bulls, said that he was pleasantly surprised by the drop
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Bitcoin (BTC) has been hovering around $ 6,400 for a long time now. Volatility has dropped significantly and the price is trading in a very tight range. The last time this happened, we saw the beginning of a new cycle. However, most Bitcoin (BTC) investors who have not been around for long refuse to believe that. So, let us analyze the implications of a decreasing Bitcoin (BTC) volatility without any bullish or bearish bias. Volatility in the cryptocurrency market is a trader’s best friend. If you are someone who likes to buy and sell on a regular basis instead of storing your coins in an offline wallet, you would love to see volatility in the market. That way, you can buy the dips and sell the rallies while going with the flow.
The cryptocurrency markets have made headlines for their volatility, which has caused wild price swings, which has led to opportunities for a tremendous amount of both profit and loss. However, that does seem to be changing, as the most well-known digital currency in the world seems to be going through a quiet phase. Specifically, Bitcoin
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As we’ve previously discussed, bitcoin price volatility is a main area of concern for people who are thinking about moving into the world of cryptocurrency for the first time. This is an issue that can only be solved with time, but it’s possible that smart contracts will be able to enable a bit more stability for those who seek it over the short term.
What is a Smart Contract?
“Smart contract” is a term that every new blockchain-related project stuffs into their marketing materials, but the technical meaning of this phrase has been mostly lost in all of the hype around applying this new technology to almost every aspect of our daily lives.
Bitcoin has been trading in the very narrow range of $ 100 for seven days – that’s the longest run at such low volatility since April 2017.
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Glassdoor Economic Research is delivering much needed good news to the crypto community saying that despite extreme price volatility and regulatory uncertainty, the number of crypto jobs in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sector has risen by 300 percent since the same time last year.
Saying that “the professionalism of the space has accelerated,” the report notes that “continued growth in job openings suggests that blockchain employers remain confident in the market opportunity and continue to make long-term investments in their teams.”
One of the most common (and most valid) criticisms thrown bitcoin’s way over the years has been the issue of price volatility. With price swings of 10 percent or more in a single day, how is anyone supposed to use this digital asset as a real-world currency?
While a number of different theories have been discussed in terms of how bitcoin will eventually become a less volatile form of money, the reality is there is only one real solution to this problem: time.
Bitcoin’s Future Price Has a Wide Range
No one will deny Tether’s USDT stablecoin is a bit controversial. That image has only been reinforced today, as the currency proves to be anything but stable in value. A current market dip pushes the below per USDT below the $ 0.96 mark. A very odd situation for a currency allegedly pegged to the value of 1 US Dollar.
