Cryptocurrency
There Are Now 1800 BTC Whales
From a macro level, this increase in the number of BTC whales can be considered bullish.
At the BTC market, BTC whales have been increasing at a steady pace after Bitcoin’s recent halving, as data seen from Glassnode show that there are currently more than 1,800 Bitcoin (BTC) whales.
Quick fact about BTC whales: In the Bitcoin world, investors or traders who own a large number of Bitcoins are typically called Bitcoin whales. This means a Bitcoin whale would be an individual or business entity (with a single Bitcoin address) owning around 1000 Bitcoins or more.
Whales could be anticipating a strong medium to long-term Bitcoin price trend, and are choosing to hold on to BTC expecting a bull market. Eichholz explained:
“Where did all these new whales come from? Much of the recent increase can be attributed to wealthy entities withdrawing their BTC from exchanges. Apparently, this is not new wealth – rather, it represents a change in the way Bitcoin whales are choosing to hold their coins.”
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From a macro level, this increase in the number of BTC whales can be considered bullish.
As BTC whales accumulate BTCs, Bitcoins circulating supply reduces, and this can weaken any bearish trend BTC finds itself in. Meaning that over time, it’s possible that as Bitcoin approaches its fixed supply of 21 million, the price of BTC will go up, with BTC’s present demand factored in.
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According to Glassnode:
“While there is no single explanation of what caused these large holders to withdraw their BTC from exchanges, [Bitcoin exchange outflows] suggests that whales may have used Black Thursday as an opportunity to get in at the bottom and then withdraw their bitcoin to HODL for the longer term in anticipation of the next Bull Run.”
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Midweek had more volatility in the BTC market than the beginning or end of the trading week.
Most BTC investors and crypto traders are changing their methods of trading in 2020, preferring to trade around the American trading session because of the high price volatility that occurs at the start of New York stock market trading time, about 2.30 pm local time.
Data seen on Twitter feeds show that price volatility for the world’s flagship currency by market capitalization is highly correlated with the opening of American financial markets.
In addition, other trading sessions like the London and Asian financial market openings have considerably little impact on BTC’s price volatility.
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“Can we just halt $BTC trading during Asia + Euro hours,” a crypto trader, Hsaka, said uploading evidence, which relates to the previous few days on U.S. exchange, Coinbase.
Can we just halt $BTC trading during Asia + Euro hours. pic.twitter.com/X6hp6y9jMC
— Hsaka (@HsakaTrades) July 3, 2020
The data may have unearthed changing tendencies among BTC traders, possibly due to the increasing prevalence of institutions within the market.
Furthermore, Skew.com, a crypto analytic firm, found out that the midweek had more volatility in the BTC market than the beginning or end of the trading week. Weekends were also observed to be quiet.
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Meanwhile, data from Glassnode, a data analytic firm, showed that about 1.8 million Bitcoins are held in miner wallets around 10% of the supply (18.5million BTC). However, around 1.73 million belong to first-time miners (7+ years) and are most likely lost. That leaves only 70k BTC in the hands of current mining pools.
1.8M $BTC are held in miner wallets – around 10% of the #bitcoin supply.
However, around 1.73M belong to very early miners (7+ years) and are most likely lost.
That leaves only 70k BTC in the hands of current mining pools.
Track miners' balance live 👇https://t.co/5EIY4nDmq2 pic.twitter.com/PqM1iwZ544
— glassnode (@glassnode) July 3, 2020
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USDC Treasury Transfers 20,000,000 USDC to Unknown Wallet
According to data from Coinmarket cap, the digital coin has experienced growth exponentially.
As global investors seek the next big thing in the crypto asset space, fast-growing cryptocurrency, USDC, a stablecoin project founded by Circle and Coinbase, just released a whopping 20 million digital coins to an unknown wallet. This is according to Whale Alert, an advanced blockchain tracker, and analytics system.
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🚨 🚨 20,000,000 #USDC (20,000,000 USD) transferred from USDC Treasury to unknown wallet
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) July 3, 2020
Crypto lovers seem to be trooping to stablecoins lately, as USD Coin’s (USDC) market cap broke the $1 billion market capitalization threshold for the first time since the stablecoin was launched in October 2018.
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Quick Fact: USDC is a fully collateralized US dollar stablecoin. It is an Ethereum powered coin and is the brainchild of CENTRE, an open source project bootstrapped by contributions from Circle and Coinbase. USDCs are issued by regulated and licensed financial institutions that maintain full reserves of the equivalent fiat currency in a 1 USDC:1 USD ratio.
Things you must know: Investors of stablecoins, such as USDC, make money by earning dividends from the newly created digital coins being given to them for holding such stablecoin stock.
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According to data from Coinmarket cap, the digital coin has experienced growth exponentially.
USDC, the second-largest USD-pegged stablecoin after Tether (USDT), is ranked the 18th largest cryptocurrency by market cap, with a daily trading volume of $246 million.
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Earning BTCs without Having To Pay Money
BTC Miners help in facilitating BTC transactions and the provision of security on the blockchain network.
BTC miners, hard work seems to be paying off, with billions of dollars going to their coffers, Data obtained from Glasscode showed that BTC miner revenue (“Thermocap“) is now at $17.5 billion USD. This metric is used as a lower bound for the capital inflow into an asset.
Cumulative #Bitcoin miner revenue ("Thermocap") is now at $17.5 billion USD.
This metric is used as a lower bound for the capital inflow into an asset.
Comparison of Thermocaps since 2018:$BTC: $12.6B$ETH: $4.9B$LTC: $932M$BCH: $810M
Live charts: https://t.co/KMutpZkM4X pic.twitter.com/YL9rEYDqfU
— glassnode (@glassnode) July 3, 2020
Mining is the process of adding confirmed transactions to the Bitcoin blockchain. For the resources required to mine, the blockchain network rewards BTC miners via transaction fees and subsidies. Subsidies are paid per block at a current rate of 6.25 BTC. Fees are paid per transaction.
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Metric Description
Aggregate security spends, or “Thermocap“, is the aggregated amount of coins paid to miners and serves as a proxy to mining resources spent. It serves as a measure of the true capital flow into Bitcoin and is computed as the aggregate Coinbase transactions multiplied by the price in USD at the time they were mined.
Quick fact; BTC Miners help in facilitating BTC transactions and provision of security on the blockchain network. The importance of BTC miners can’t be underestimated as they perform these functions, by solving computational tasks which permit them to chain together blocks of transactions
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By mining BTC, you can earn a BTC without having to pay money for such. BTC miners collect BTC as a reward for completing “blocks” of confirmed transactions which are added to the blockchain network.
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