The 2020 altcoin Hype-to-Activity index
Tracking the hype and price action of several of your favorite cryptocurrencies. Crypto fans love to defend their favorite assets. Just look at the XRP army and the LINK Marines. Does the hype expressed on Twitter match up with high trading activity though? A few altcoins throughout 2020 revealed mixed results. Using information from The Tie, a crypto data platform, Cointelegraph looked at assets’ Hype-To-Activity Ratios matched against their prices.“Hype-To-Activity Ratio measures the number of tweets a particular coin has per each $1M in reported trading volume of that coin,” Joshua....
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Bitcoin hype has never been quite the same since 2019, according to this metric. Since its drop below $4,000 in March 2020, Bitcoin (BTC) has ridden a bullish trend all the way past its 2017 all-time high, recently hitting almost $42,000. During that time, however, Bitcoin’s Twitter activity has underperformed in comparison to its price. Looking at information from crypto data outfit The TIE indicates that Bitcoin’s price is traveling above its Hype-To-Activity Ratio — a metric which shows tweet volume against asset trading volume — since 2019. “Hype-To-Activity Ratio measures the number....
BTC price bounces and the U.S. dollar falls from fresh twenty-year highs as PMI numbers reignite talk of recession. Bitcoin (BTC) headed for multi-day highs after the Aug. 23 Wall Street open as United States economic data tripped up the dollar.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewDollar suffers as data shows incomes "squeezed"Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed BTC/USD as it eyed $21,700 at the time of writing, near resistance in place since last week’s near-12% drop.The pair gained momentum as the U.S. Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) prints....
Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao has suggested that the highly anticipated Altseason isn’t here yet as most altcoins continue bleeding, while some market watchers consider the worst might be over soon. Related Reading: ‘All Options On The Table’: Bitcoin Must Hold This Level Ahead Of Trump’s Crypto Summit CZ Says There’s No Altseason Yet On Friday, Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ, responded to an X user asking when the Altseason will happen. The Binance founder pointed out the price tracking and market data website CoinMarketCap (CMC), which recently added an “Altcoin Season Index.” CZ....
Trader sentiment is verging on "extreme fear," the Index shows amid echoes of the climate after the March 2020 cross-asset crash. Bitcoin (BTC) and altcoin traders are more nervous than any time in over a year as a classic sentiment gauge signals "fear" is driving the market.According to the Crypto Fear & Greed Index, cryptocurrency traders have not had such cold feet about the market climate since April 2020.March 2020 on repeatFear & Greed uses a basket of factors to determine overriding sentiment among market participants — and therefore where the market itself is likely headed.Price....
After Bitcoin, the top-ranked altcoin, Ethereum, and the rest of the altcoin category have yet to set a new all-time high beyond the peak set in late 2017 and early 2018. Early signs that Bitcoin’s bull market was brewing was tipped off by a slow and steady increase in BTC address activity, and now that […]