Idelto

Cryptocurrency news website

Bitcoin (BTC)

Price Increase Drives 98% of Bitcoin Holders Into a State of Profit

by

Price Increase Drives 98% of Bitcoin Holders in a State of Profit

The price of bitcoin jumped significantly on Wednesday after the payment processor Paypal announced cryptocurrency support. The jump in value has pushed a large number of bitcoin holders into a state of profit, according to Glassnode “percent of UTXOs in profit” statistics. Based on the current data, 98% of all bitcoin UTXOs are in a state of profit touching levels previously recorded three years ago in December 2017.

The price of bitcoin (BTC) closed at a high at $13,184 per coin on Wednesday, October 21 following the announcement from Paypal. During the evening trading sessions, the onchain research and analysis firm Glassnode tweeted about the number of bitcoin unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs) in profit. A UTXO refers to the amount of bitcoin someone holds that has not been spent and is simply stored in a bitcoin wallet.

“98% of all bitcoin UTXOs are currently in a state of profit,” Glassnode tweeted. “A level not seen since Dec 2017, and typical in previous BTC bull markets.”

Price Increase Drives 98% of Bitcoin Holders Into a State of Profit

Since then the price has dropped a hair but the price of bitcoin (BTC) is still up 4.3% over the last seven days. Long term holders have seen a 72.4% increase during the last 12 months, 34.9% during the last 90-days and 22% against the 30-day span. Glassnode’s onchain stats report, details that the subindex measuring investor “sentiment” increased ending the week “at 70 points.”

A number of crypto analysts and traders believe that bitcoin’s current price range is a key indicator for moving forward. Moreover, BTC’s dominance level, it’s market cap measured against all 7,000+ crypto assets, has risen to 63.2%. The senior financial analyst at Fxpro, Alex Kuptsikevich, believes bitcoin is testing crucial macro levels.

“At current levels, Bitcoin is testing cyclical highs,” Kuptsikevich wrote in a note to investors. “Since the beginning of 2018, it has not been able to gain a foothold at levels above $12,000. It is equally important that at new highs, indicators like the RSI are far from the overbought condition, indicating significant potential for further growth. Closing the week above $12,800 would be the highest level in two and a half years, opening a direct path of growth to the historic highs of $20,000 that we saw three years ago.”

Kuptsikevich added:

Bitcoin breaking through two round levels of $12k and $13k opens doors for further growth. The current price dynamics led the coin to re-test the peak of July 2019, which at that time was the highest point of the rally. Nowadays, purchases take place against the background of confidence that bitcoin has more and more supporters in the traditional financial world.

Eric Demuth, cofounder and CEO of Bitpanda believes that cryptocurrencies, in general, started to “establish themselves as a trusted asset class of the worldwide financial market such as gold and stocks.” Demuth thinks that the Paypal support announced on Wednesday is just the start, as he believes more large players will be joining the crypto party.

“2020 has shown that crypto is here to stay,” Demuth explained. “There has been a huge inflow of institutional capital as well as record numbers of new retail customers adopting cryptocurrencies. I am certain we will see more big players like Paypal joining the party in 2021.”

What do you think about the high percentage of bitcoin UTXOs in a state of profit? Let us know what you think in the comments section below.

The post Price Increase Drives 98% of Bitcoin Holders Into a State of Profit appeared first on Bitcoin News.

Market Update: Bitcoin Nears $13,000, Holds Record-Breaking 87-Day Streak Above $10K

by

Market Update: Bitcoin Nears $13,000, Holds Record-Breaking 87-Day Streak Above $10K

Cryptocurrency markets have seen intense gains on Wednesday after the payment processor Paypal announced it would be supporting digital currencies. At the time of publication, the market cap of all 7,000+ digital assets has gained 5.6% hovering above $379 billion during the afternoon trading sessions.

Digital currency markets have increased a great deal during the last 24 hours as the aggregate crypto market capitalization is nearing $400 billion. The price of bitcoin (BTC) spiked on Wednesday morning after Paypal revealed cryptocurrency support during the morning trading sessions.

BTC has gained 7.1% during the last seven days and the price is close to touching $13k per coin. During the last 30 days, BTC is up 22% and over 76% year-to-date. At the time of writing, BTC is currently swapping for $12,839 a unit.

Behind BTC, is ethereum (ETH) which has gained 6.9% during the last week as the coin is currently trading for $397 per unit. ETH is followed by tether (USDT) and XRP which is up 4.4% today at $0.25 an XRP.

The fifth-largest market cap is held by bitcoin cash (BCH) and its markets have gained 7.1% on Wednesday. BCH is trading for $261 per coin and is up 22% for the last 30 days and 26.9% for the last year.

No one’s quite sure where bitcoin and the rest of crypto markets will go from here but bitcoin (BTC) is inching toward a key macro level. BTC’s price is higher than it was in mid-August and slowly approaching the 2019 all-time high (ATH).

On June 26, 2019, bitcoin’s ATH that day touched $13,796 per coin. This means at today’s price of above $12,800 per coin, BTC will need to gain more than 7.5% to surpass the June 2019 ATH.

A number of crypto proponents are attributing Wednesday’s bullishness to the Paypal news but also the number of firms joining bitcointreasuries.org as well. Furthermore, traders are eying bitcoin futures and options markets as well, as bitcoin options traders are prepping for big moves ahead.

In addition to BTC nearing the $13k zone, the cryptocurrency has stayed above $10k for 87 days straight which means the 62 day run in 2017 has been broken.

What do you think about the positive action within crypto markets during the last 48 hours? Let us know what you think in the comments section below.

The post Market Update: Bitcoin Nears $13,000, Holds Record-Breaking 87-Day Streak Above $10K appeared first on Bitcoin News.

187,000 BTC Drained: Over $2 Billion in Bitcoin Leave the Top Exchanges Since June

by

Cryptocurrency reserves held on digital asset exchanges have been dropping to new lows, as some of the top exchanges have seen significant bitcoin reserve balance drops. A few months ago trading platforms had a lot more bitcoin reserves on hand and onchain data shows a few exchanges have seen customers steadily drain 187,000 bitcoins ($2.1B) from exchange-owned cold wallets.

In February, Coinbase had 1 million bitcoin under management and today reserves are down over 9% as 92,000 bitcoin ($1B) has left the exchange. Today, according to Bituniverse’s online exchange balance rank tracker, the San Francisco trading platform has 908,560 BTC under management.

36,000 BTC ($408M) left Coinbase since news.Bitcoin.com’s reserves report published on June 30, 2020. A number of top exchanges below Coinbase have also seen cold wallets drained during the last three months.

The top seven exchanges in terms of balance holdings on June 30, 2020, according to Bituniverse’s exchange balance rank tracker.

The second-largest exchange in terms of bitcoin reserves held is Huobi and the trading platform is down over 53,000 BTC ($601M) since June 30. Binance’s balances remained the same as the exchange holds 266,000 BTC today and three months ago, Binance held 269k BTC. Similarly, the fourth-largest reserve holder, Bitfinex, didn’t see much movement in the last three months.

The top seven exchanges in terms of balance holdings on October 16, 2020, according to Bituniverse’s exchange balance rank tracker.

Three months ago, Okex had 240,000 BTC on hand but today, Okex only has 198,000 BTC in reserves. This means 42,000 BTC left Okex since June as 17.5% left the exchange in the last three months.

Statistics show out of the top five crypto trading platforms over 187,000 BTC ($2.1B) has left these exchanges since the June report.

Just recently, Bitmex had some legal troubles with the U.S. government and since the incident, a lot of bitcoin has left the derivatives exchange. Three months ago Bitmex had 224 BTC in reserves and today the exchange only has 113,000 in cold storage. Onchain data indicates Bitmex lost a whopping 49.55% in BTC reserves since June 30.

At the time of publication, Glassnode’s “Exchange Balance vs. Bitcoin” stats show that there’s 2.7 million BTC held on exchanges today. Glassnode’s stats indicate that out of the 21 million BTC cap, exchanges hold 12.85% of all that will exist, and 14.59% of the 18.5 million BTC in circulation.

1.8 million BTC out of the aggregate 2.7 million BTC held on exchanges sits in the world’s top five crypto trading platforms. The top five custodial platforms by BTC reserve status include Coinbase, Huobi, Binance, Bitfinex, and Okex.

Exchange balances have been riding lower consecutively for the last 15 months and the last time balances were this low was around May 2019. To many crypto enthusiasts and traders, the low balances on exchanges suggest users are storing assets in a noncustodial fashion as opposed to leaving funds with a third party.

The data from Bituniverse and Glassnode also suggests that liquidity and selling pressure may lower.

What do you think about the low number of bitcoins held collectively on global exchanges today? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments below.

The post 187,000 BTC Drained: Over $2 Billion in Bitcoin Leave the Top Exchanges Since June appeared first on Bitcoin News.

$12M in ‘Satoshi Era’ Bitcoins Move: 21 Block Rewards from 2010 Spent After a Decade of Slumber

by

$12M in 'Sleeping Bitcoins' Move: 21 Block Rewards from 2010 Spent After a Decade of Slumber

On early Sunday morning around 1:38:02 a.m. (New York time), approximately 20 blocks with coinbase rewards from 2010 were spent in one block. 1,000 BTC was then consolidated into a single address before moving again. The massive movement of the decade-old ‘sleeping’ bitcoins was caught by an onchain transaction parser and the coins were spent in block 652,204.

** Update, approximately 9.99999943 BTC or $114k worth of the 1,050 bitcoins from 2010 were sent to the Free Software Foundation.

Miner Spends 21 Blocks from 2010 Following the Same Pattern That Happened the Day Before Black Thursday

Similar to the big move the day before March 12, the miner also transferred one last 2010 block mined at block height 652,229, to finish off the group of transactions making it a total of 21 consecutive 2010 block rewards moved.

What we know so far is quite a bit of ‘Satoshi era’ or so-called ‘sleeping’ bitcoin rewards from 2010 moved during the early morning hours on Sunday morning. The action was caught by the application Btcparser.com, as a bitcoin miner or miners decided to spend approximately 21 blocks from 2010 around 1:38 a.m. (ET).

$12M in 'Satoshi Era' Bitcoins Move: 21 Block Rewards from 2010 Spent After a Decade of Slumber
The onchain parser Btcparser.com caught the action on Sunday morning on October 11, 2020. Btcparser’s application shows three types of parsed data obtained from the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain. The first parser combs the BTC blockchain for activity related to 64,529 addresses stemming from 2009 through 2017.

The 2010 blocks spent in total on Sunday held 1,050 BTC or $11.9 million at current BTC exchange rates. News.Bitcoin.com was also the first to catch the spending of 21 blocks from 2010, that a miner or group of miners, transferred the day before March 12, 2020, otherwise known as ‘Black Thursday.’

The movement of ‘sleeping’ bitcoin rewards is not a regular occurrence, and especially coins that were mined ten years ago that have sat dormant ever since. The movement on October 11, 2020, is also quite odd because the person or people decided to move the exact same number of 2010 blocks as the March incident. In our report last week, it was noted that a 2010 block reward, coincidentally mined on March 11 of that year, was also transferred to end the session of movements.

$12M in 'Satoshi Era' Bitcoins Move: 21 Block Rewards from 2010 Spent After a Decade of Slumber
While leveraging the application Btcparcer.com, our newsdesk discovered the first 20 blocks from 2010 spent in block 652,204. Another 2010 block was spent in block 652,229 making it a total of 21 decade-old coinbase rewards moved on October 11, 2020.

The exact same thing happened on Sunday morning, approximately 21 blocks, a ten-year span, and 1,050 coins were spent. The final block mined at block height 652,229 was mined on November 10, 2010.

$250,000 Worth of Bitcoin Cash Also Spent

Data also shows that in addition to the BTC moved, the bitcoin cash (BCH) coinbase rewards were also transferred on Sunday morning. Approximately 1,000 BCH from the same decade-old coinbase rewards ($251k) moved on October 11, but blockchain explorers show the corresponding bitcoinsv (BSV) tokens did not move. However, the final BTC block spent on Sunday did not see the associated bitcoin cash (BCH) spent.

The weird transfer that saw 21 blocks from 2010 transferred back in March did see the corresponding bitcoinsv (BSV) spent alongside the corresponding BCH.

The transfer on Sunday is another record for the history books, and one can only speculate if it was a single person or a group of miners. It is also not known, whether or not, the entity plans to sell these coins on the open market.

It seems more likely that the entity was the same person and could very well be the same miner that spent 2010 coins the day before the infamous Black Thursday. At the time of publication, bitcoin (BTC) is doing well price-wise, hovering at $11,300 per coin. One thing that can be said for sure is that a lot of 2010 blocks have been spent in 2020 (54 total), including the rare 2009 block that was mined only one month after Satoshi kickstarted the network.

What do you think about the 21 blocks from 2010 being transferred on Sunday morning? Let us know what you think about this story in the comments section below.

The post $12M in ‘Satoshi Era’ Bitcoins Move: 21 Block Rewards from 2010 Spent After a Decade of Slumber appeared first on Bitcoin News.

Boringdao Raises $1.4M: Project’s Tokenized BTC Bridge Backed by 200% Collateral

by

Boringdao Raises $1.4M: Project's Tokenized BTC Bridge Backed by 200% Collateral

There’s a new tokenized bitcoin project coming to the decentralized finance (defi) ecosystem that’s recently received $1.4 million from blockchain investors. The project called Boringdao, a decentralized bridge between Ethereum and alternative blockchains, plans to launch the company’s bBTC tunnel this month in order to introduce another tokenized bitcoin.

On October 8, 2020, the Boringdao project announced the company has raised $1.45 million from a number of investors. Boringdao’s website says the project is a bridge between various blockchains and Ethereum. “We offer the opportunity for non-ERC20 assets to maximize utility and yield-generating effects,” the startup’s web portal notes.

Essentially, Boringdao wants to tokenize all the world’s assets, and this month the project aims to deploy its bBTC tunnel. The token bBTC will be a tokenized bitcoin (BTC) asset similar to renBTC, WBTC, and other projects connected to Ethereum.

This month the company announced it raised $1.4 million from investors such as Puzzle Ventures, Snapfingers, Hashkey, SNZ, Youbi, and others. In addition to the bBTC tokenized bitcoin, Boringdao is also launching the BOR token, which will be meant for minting and farming purposes. As far as the bBTC token, the asset will be collateralized by 200% and leverage a double pledge model.

“Boringdao will launch in October and initiate the bBTC tunnel supporting BTC to be minted into bBTC under a double pledge model that will provide the highest level of asset security compared to other wrapped BTC solutions in the market,” the company’s announcement detailed on Thursday. The double pledge mechanism is also described in the firm’s blog post published on the same day.

“Each Bitcoin is backed by more than 200% of assets, including one real Bitcoin (multiple reputable institutions manage Multi-sig),” explains the Boringdao developers. “The approximately equivalent value of ERC-20 assets is locked in the contract layer (governed by smart contracts). There is no doubt that 200%>100%, so bBTC ought to be much safer.”

At the time of publication, there is a massive amount of BTC locked into tokenized ETH-based protocols. There is 130,329 BTC or the equivalent of $1.4 billion worth of bitcoin held on Ethereum on Friday afternoon.

The top project with the most locked bitcoin is Bitgo’s Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) project with a total of 95,197 tokens circulating according to Dune Analytics. WBTC is followed by renBTC (25,598), hBTC (4,810), sBTC (2,437), imBTC (1,730), tBTC (443), and pBTC (120).

What do you think about the latest tokenized bitcoin project created by Boringdao? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

The post Boringdao Raises $1.4M: Project’s Tokenized BTC Bridge Backed by 200% Collateral appeared first on Bitcoin News.