Bitcoin Traders Sink Into ‘Fear’ As Price Crashes Below $58,000
Data shows that Bitcoin traders’ sentiment has declined into ‘fear’ after the price crash the cryptocurrency has seen during the past 24 hours. Bitcoin Fear & Greed Index Is Now Suggesting A Fearful Market The “Fear & Greed Index” is an indicator created by Alternative that tells us about the average sentiment currently held by traders in the Bitcoin and wider cryptocurrency market. The index uses a scale from zero to a hundred to represent the sentiment. The score is calculated based on five factors: volatility, trading volume, social media sentiment, market....
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Data shows users on social media platforms have been calling to sell Bitcoin after its latest crash, a signal that contrarian traders may be waiting for. Bitcoin Sentiment On Social Media Has Turned Quite Bearish According to data from the analytics firm Santiment, social media is showing historic levels of FUD amid the market drawdown. The indicator of interest here is the “Social Volume,” which basically tells us about the degree of discussion around a given topic or term that users on the major social media platforms are currently participating in. This metric works by going....
The aftermath of the SEC’s refusal to approve the Winklevoss bitcoin ETF has resulted in a predictable outcome for bitcoin trading markets. As news of the rejection spread, traders engaged in a rapid sell-off to see bitcoin price sink to a low of $975. Bitcoin price struck $1,288 on the Bitstamp Price Index (BPI) at 21:00 UTC. Ten minutes later, price plummeted to $975, a new 30-day low going back to February 9 when price last took a tumble after two major Chinese exchanges paused bitcoin withdrawals. In that 10-minute period, bitcoin lost nearly 25% of its value. Trading has since....
Bitcoin continues to see price dips as fear looms. Earlier in the month, Bitcoinist had reported that the crypto market had been in “Extreme Fear” for the longest stretch in a year. According to Arcane Research, this has persisted to the present. The Fear & Greed Index continues to show that market sentiments remain quite […]
I was able to get a sample of the new OneString modular miner. The specs are very good especially when you take power consumption into account. Here are the official specs posted by Ben Turas on BitcoinTalk, whom I interviewed for this review. OneStringMiner board: The OneString Miner boards are designed by Intron and C-scape, two well-known Bitcoin mining board designers. The OSM is based on Bitfury chips, and each board contains 15 chips, hashing 25+ GH/s without heat sink and 30+ GH/s with heat sink. Each board runs from a single 12V supply, using ~25W. The models: The OSM DIY sets,....
If you've taken a peak at the bitcoin price charts lately, you might have noticed that the price of bitcoin is down. Some would say alarmingly so, but for those of us that have been in the game since the beginning, it's nothing we're not accustomed to by now. A quick peak at the charts (drawing data from the Bitstamp exchange) quotes us $436 at the last trade (as of this writing). Over the past seven days, we've seen the price slowly sink down to this level from the $480 range - down over 7 percent. Which of course leads many to ask: what in the world is going on? If there were an easy....