The Week in Review
Bitcoin has been bouncing around a little over the last week, but always within its well established range around $22,000.
As ever, there’s a whole world of activity going on that completely belies that headline number so many of us use as the main indicator.
The Lightning network capacity continues to grow and a new high was reached just yesterday of 4,398 Bitcoin. There is real, active deployment of Lightning applications right now across the UK, especially in the Isle of Man where organisations such as CoinCorner and Bridge to Bitcoin have been extremely active.
My Twitter feed is now filled daily with announcements of new businesses now accepting Bitcoin directly, the most visible this week being, of course, Oxford Football club, covered by the BBC here.
Meanwhile an announcement between Coinbase and Blackrock didn’t quite get the coverage I expected it to since this is a significant development. Blackrock, after all, has over $10trn under management and has just offered Bitcoin trading to its client base. Think about that for a moment.
I am not personally involved with large volume BTC trading, but I do know people who broker these sorts of deals. Whilst I’m not permitted to provide details, I can reveal there has been a significant uptick in demand from new very large buyers especially in the last six weeks via OTC channels for Bitcoin. Make of that what you will.
I was also caught off guard this week by this post that somehow made its way into my Twitter feed. As most of you know I have been Bitcoin mining for years and have always known that the UK and Ireland produce almost zero hashrate, something I covered in this article a couple of months ago. However, perhaps that’s about to change as Irish firm Scilling Mining begins to offer complete (and fully green and renewable) solutions. Great to see such innovation and growth.
In legal news, “Dr” Craig Wright was awarded a total of £1 in damages in his libel case against Peter McCormack and received a scathing dressing down from the judge for his continued and blatant disregard for “truth” a theme that is bizarrely common for the failed Bitcoin fork (BSV) leader. Of course, as always, his cronies passed it off as a victory while Twitter did its thing.
Economically, things continue to go from bad to worse. The Bank of England raised interest rates again by an eye watering 50 basis points to 1.75%, the first time it has done so for 27 years. Of course, standard economic argument says that in times of inflation you raise interest rates to cool demand, but the reality is that I doubt this is demand driven inflation.
More likely, this is energy, supply line and monetary policy driven inflation and since the cost of living is accelerating faster than at any time in recent history in real terms, it will simply do even greater damage to the economy. Recession absolutely confirmed.
Thank goodness we have Bitcoin as a lifeline.
And look, I got through the whole thing without mentioning Solana or Slope once.
Well, nearly.
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Total crypto market cap
The total capitalisation of the entire cryptocurrency market at time of writing is currently
$1,085 trillion.
What Bitcoin did yesterday
We closed yesterday, August 4 2022, at a price of $22,630.96. The daily high yesterday was $23,198.01 and the daily low was $22,485.70.
Bitcoin market capitalisation
Bitcoin’s market capitalisation at time of writing is $442.17 billion. To put it into context, the market cap of gold is $11.892 trillion and Tesla is $967.09 billion.
Bitcoin volume
The total spot trading volume reported by all exchanges over the last 24 hours was $26.284 billion. High volumes can indicate that a significant price movement has stronger support and is more likely to be sustained.
Volatility
The price volatility of Bitcoin over the last 30 days is 54.93%.
Fear and Greed Index
Market sentiment today is 31, in Fear.
Bitcoin’s market dominance
Bitcoin’s market dominance today is 41.62. Its lowest ever recorded dominance was 37.09 on January 1 2018.
Relative Strength Index (RSI)
The daily RSI is currently 54.27. Values of 70 or above indicate that an asset is becoming overbought and may be primed for a trend reversal or experience a correction in price – an RSI reading of 30 or below indicates an oversold or undervalued condition.
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Cautionary Notes
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