6 months ago
By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise)
Bitcoin's bull-bear tug-of-war continues to rage, with prices recovering to implicit $97,000 from Monday's dip to $94,200. That descent was prompted by interest Google's caller quantum-computing chip, Willow, could compromise BTC's information — a interest rapidly dismissed by analysts.
That leaves directional traders with small to bash different than hold for the particulate to settee earlier picking a side, arsenic prices stay locked successful <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/12/06/fomo-traders-beware-bitcoins-high-wave-price-action-points-to-confusion-godbole" target="_blank">Thursday's indecisive trading range</a>.
But there’s a metallic lining! The turbulence has crowded retired those undisciplined, overleveraged altcoin traders, arsenic is evident from perpetual backing rates. Altcoin rates person receded person to the halfway of Velo Data's vigor map, which oscillates betwixt -200% and 200%, indicating much balanced conditions than the bullish extremes of past week. Tokens similar Stacks' STX adjacent athletics antagonistic backing rates, a cleanable introduction constituent for bulls, according to pseudonymous expert Byzantine General.
"If these rates proceed to decline, it could awesome the unwinding of excessive agelong leverage, perchance starring to a much balanced market," analysts astatine Bitfinex said, adding that $100,000 is nary longer the cardinal support/resistance level and a caller equilibrium is astir apt forming successful spot markets.
That said, arsenic we look toward the extremity of 2024, there’s a processing story: Banks are getting bullish connected the dollar, which doesn’t usually bode good for assets denominated successful the U.S. currency, similar BTC and hazard assets.
"The operation of cyclical, fiscal, and U.S. governmental forces is making the USD stronger again," HSBC said recently. "We update our USD bullish presumption further; the USD bubble is re-inflating, which spells occupation up for galore different currencies." Citibank sees the dollar scale (DXY) rallying to 115, an 8% increase.
Keep an oculus connected the Far East too. A renewed rally successful Chinese stocks pursuing Beijing's committedness of much stimulus could suck superior from different markets, including cryptocurrencies.
Amid each this, there's speech President-elect Trump whitethorn conflict to present his crypto promises. Peter Tschir, caput of macro strategy astatine Academy Securities, enactment it best: "Trump does person loyalty to those who helped money his campaign, but I don't spot this arsenic a lasting relationship, particularly arsenic helium volition apt get a batch of unit from the National Security constituent of D.C. to beryllium cautious connected helping crypto excessively much."
After all, it's 1 happening to committedness large from Mar-a-Lago and a antithetic shot crippled erstwhile delivering from the White House. Stay Alert!
What to Watch
Crypto:
Dec. 10, 11:30 a.m.: Microsoft's yearly shareholders meeting. The gathering volition see MicroStrategy Executive Chairman <a href="https://www.michael.com/microsoft-bitcoin-strategy" target="_blank">Michael Saylor's 44-slide presentation</a> connected investing successful Bitcoin. Microsoft volition past disclose the voting results. <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/annual-meeting" target="_blank">Livestream link</a>.
Dec. 13: The yearly Nasdaq-100 reconstitution. Changes to the index, if any, are announced connected this day. MicroStrategy (MSTR), the world’s largest firm holder of bitcoin, is wide expected to beryllium added to the index.
Dec. 18: CleanSpark (CLSK) Q4 FY 2024 earnings. EPS Est. $-0.18 vs Prev. $-1.02.
Macro
Dec. 11, 8:30 a.m.: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases November’s <a href="https://www.bls.gov/cpi/" target="_blank">Consumer Price Index (CPI)</a> data.
Inflation Rate YoY Est. 2.7% vs Prev. 2.6%
Core Inflation Rate YoY Est. 3.3% vs Prev. 3.3%
Dec. 11, 9:45 a.m.: The Bank of Canada announces its <a href="https://www.bankofcanada.ca/core-functions/monetary-policy/key-interest-rate/" target="_blank">policy involvement rate</a> (also known arsenic overnight people complaint and overnight lending rate). Est. 3.25% vs Prev. 3.75%. A property league starts astatine 10:30 a.m. <a href="https://youtu.be/x-motc1cW8s" target="_blank">Livestream link</a>
Dec. 12, 8:15 a.m.: The European Central Bank (ECB) announces its latest <a href="https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/activities/mopo/html/index.en.html" target="_blank">monetary argumentation decision</a> (three cardinal involvement rates) followed by a <a href="https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/press_conference/html/index.en.html" target="_blank">press conference</a> astatine 8:45 am.
Deposit installation involvement complaint Est. 3.0% vs Prev. 3.25%.
Main refinancing operations involvement complaint Est. 3.15% vs Prev. 3.4%.
Marginal lending installation involvement complaint Prev. 3.65%.
Token Events
Governance votes & calls
Horizen to clasp assemblage telephone discussing ZEN halving and aboriginal plans astatine 8 a.m.
Token Launches
Movement's MOVE has added 63% since going unrecorded connected Monday, reaching a $2.5 cardinal marketplace capitalization.
Binance listed SPX, VIRTUAL, RAY and KOMA connected futures.
Hacks
The Clober Liquidity Vault has been hacked, resulting successful a nonaccomplishment of 133 $ETH (worth ~$500K). The exploiter has already bridged the stolen funds from Base to Ethereum.
Conferences:
Dec. 9 - 10: <a href="https://b.tc/conference/mena" target="_blank">Bitcoin MENA 2024</a> (Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Dec. 9 - 12: <a href="https://adfw.com/" target="_blank">Abu Dhabi Finance Week 2024</a> (Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Dec. 9 - 13: <a href="https://www.blockchainweek.lu/" target="_blank">Luxembourg Blockchain Week 2024</a>
Dec. 12 - 13: <a href="https://www.globalblockchainshow.com/" target="_blank">Global Blockchain Show</a> (Dubai, UAE)
Dec. 12 - 14: <a href="https://www.taipeiblockchainweek.com/" target="_blank">Taipei Blockchain Week 2024</a> (Taipei, Taiwan)
Dec. 13: <a href="https://www.limitlesscrypto.com/" target="_blank">Limitless Crypto 2024</a> (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Dec. 16 - 17: <a href="https://theblockchainassociation.org/policy-summit-2024/" target="_blank">Blockchain Association’s Policy Summit</a> (Washington)
Jan. 13 - 24: <a href="https://web3fest.ch/swiss-web3fest/" target="_blank">Swiss WEB3FEST Winter Edition 2025</a> (Zug, Zurich, St. Moritz, Davos)
Jan. 17: <a href="https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/about/clubs-and-associations/institutions/entrepreneur-association-ea/unchained" target="_blank">Unchained: Blockchain Business Forum 2025</a> (Los Angeles)
Jan. 18: <a href="https://bitcoinday.io/" target="_blank">BitcoinDay</a> (Napes, Florida)
Jan. 21: <a href="https://www.tokenizationsummit.de/eng" target="_blank">Frankfurt Tokenization Conference 2025</a>
Token Talk
By Shaurya Malwa Everything with "quantum" successful the sanction is pumping!
Various tokens themed after, oregon claiming to use, quantum computing wrong their exertion stack jumped much than 100% successful the past 24 hours aft net elephantine Google unveiled Willow, a quantum supercomputer that took 5 minutes to lick tasks during its investigating play that would person taken 10 septillion years for existent supercomputers to finish.
Crypto markets took a deed aft the announcement connected concerns the improvement was semipermanent bearish for bitcoin and different blockchains, whose information features can, successful theory, beryllium exploited by quantum computers. But portion the full marketplace dropped, tokens specified arsenic Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL), Quantum Network, Quantum Swap, among others, zoomed higher. Quantum-resistant oregon post-quantum tokens purpose to usage cryptographic algorithms believed to beryllium unafraid against quantum computing attacks. These algorithms are designed to defy attacks utilizing Shor’s algorithm, which is peculiarly effectual against existent public-key cryptosystems.
Tokens labeled with "quantum" mightiness beryllium perceived arsenic being astatine the forefront of technology, adjacent if their existent inferior oregon narration to quantum computing is minimal. This cognition tin thrust concern — and a accidental to speculate connected the short-term trading narrative.
Derivatives Positioning
Perpetual backing rates successful DINO coins person normalized arsenic Monday's terms driblet triggered a decent leverage washout.
ETH's implied volatility word operation remains successful backwardation, pointing to higher near-term volatility.
A notable BTC options commercialized included a agelong presumption successful the $150,000 onslaught telephone expiring successful March. Meanwhile, idiosyncratic sold the ETH $5,000 telephone expiring astatine the extremity of March successful ample numbers, collecting astir $1.8 cardinal successful premium.
Short-term BTC and ETH calls are present trading astatine little than 2 vol premium to puts, a motion of weakening bull bias. (Source: Amberdata, Deribit, Velo Data)
Market Movements:
BTC is up 0.76 % from 4 p.m. ET Monday to $97,763.77 (24hrs: -0.3%)
ETH is up 1.66% astatine $3,765.44 (24hrs: -2.23%)
CoinDesk 20 is up 1.78% to 3,954.73 (24hrs: -4.54%)
Ether staking output is up 15 bps to 3.2%
BTC backing complaint is astatine 0.01% (10.95% annualized) connected Binance
DXY is up 0.23% astatine 106.39
Gold is up 1.24% astatine $2,697.9/oz
Silver is up 0.9% to $32.51/oz
Nikkei 225 is up 0.53% unchanged astatine 39,367.58
Hang Seng is down 0.5% astatine 20,311.28
FTSE is down 0.63% astatine 8,299.38
Euro Stoxx 50 is down 0.45% astatine 4962.94
DJIA closed connected Monday -0.54% to 44,401.93
S&P 500 closed -0.61% astatine 6,052.85
Nasdaq closed -0.62% astatine 19,736.69
S&P/TSX Composite Index closed -0.26% astatine 25,625.40
S&P 40 Latin America closed +1.15% astatine 2,356.64
U.S. 10-year Treasury was unchanged astatine 4.23%
E-mini S&P 500 futures are unchanged astatine 6,064.50
E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures are unchanged astatine 21,488.00
E-mini Dow Jones Industrial Average Index futures are unchanged astatine 44,455.00
Bitcoin Stats:
BTC Dominance: 56.82% (-0.22%)
Ethereum to bitcoin ratio: 0.03845 (0.76%)
Hashrate (seven-day moving average): 773 EH/s
Hashprice (spot): $61.93
Total Fees: 15.97 BTC / $9.46M
CME Futures Open Interest: 196K BTC
BTC priced successful gold: 36.7 oz
BTC vs golden marketplace cap: 10.46%
Bitcoin sitting successful over-the-counter table balances: 432K BTC
Basket Performance
Technical Analysis
The illustration shows the terms of the Nasdaq-listed ProShares UltraShort Bitcoin ETF (SBIT) and its 14-day RSI, a momentum oscillator.
The RSI has diverged bullishly, contradicting the little lows successful prices successful a motion of waning downward momentum. In different words, the ETF could spot immoderate gains successful the short-term.
Crypto Equities
MicroStrategy (MSTR): closed connected Monday astatine $365.34 (-7.51%), up 2.72% astatine $375.49 successful pre-market.
Coinbase Global (COIN): closed astatine $310.52 (-9.63%), up 2.62% astatine $318.67 successful pre-market.
Galaxy Digital Holdings (GLXY): closed astatine C$26.72 (-10.64%)
MARA Holdings (MARA): closed astatine $23.86 (-9.72%), up 1.82% astatine $24.29 successful pre-market.
Riot Platforms (RIOT): closed astatine $11.21 (-13.44%), up 1.52% astatine $11.38 successful pre-market.
Core Scientific (CORZ): closed astatine $16.04 (-5.59%), up 0.31% astatine $16.09 successful pre-market.
CleanSpark (CLSK): closed astatine $13.56 (-9.42%), up 3.61% astatine 14.05.
CoinShares Valkyrie Bitcoin Miners ETF (WGMI): closed astatine $28.58 (-7.63%).
Semler Scientific (SMLR): closed astatine $62.12 (+0.6%).
ETF Flows
Spot BTC ETFs:
Daily nett inflow: $479.1 million
Cumulative nett inflows: $33.88 billion
Total BTC holdings ~ 1.108 million.
Spot ETH ETFs
Daily nett inflow: $149.8 million
Cumulative nett inflows: $1.56 billion
Total ETH holdings ~ 3.287 million.
Source: <a href="https://farside.co.uk/btc/" target="_blank">Farside Investors</a>
Overnight Flows
Chart of the Day
The rally successful Nvidia (NVDA), which has traditionally shown a <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/03/15/bitcoins-correlation-to-nvidia-strongest-in-over-a-year" target="_blank">positive correlation</a> with bitcoin, appears to person mislaid momentum.
While You Were Sleeping
<a href="https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/12/10/xrp-dogecoin-dive-12-as-altcoin-carnage-leads-to-highest-bullish-liquidation-in-nearly-3-years" target="_blank">XRP, Dogecoin Dive 12% arsenic Altcoin Carnage Leads to Highest Bullish Liquidation successful Nearly 3 Years</a> (CoinDesk): Major altcoins plummeted during aboriginal Asian hours Tuesday, with XRP, DOGE, and ADA dropping up to 15%, portion Bitcoin fell 3%. Analysts pointed to an overheated market, Google's quantum spot announcement, and antithetic merchantability orders, with forced liquidations of implicit $1.5 cardinal exacerbating the downturn.
<a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/politics/russian-state-duma-deputy-proposes-strategic-bitcoin-reserve" target="_blank">Russian State Duma Deputy Proposes Strategic Bitcoin Reserve</a> (Bitcoin Magazine): On Monday, Russia's State Duma Deputy Anton Tkachev projected to Finance Minister Anton Siluanov the instauration of a strategical bitcoin reserve to bolster the country's fiscal stability, citing vulnerabilities of accepted currency reserves to ostentation and sanctions. Tkachev highlighted cryptocurrencies' increasing relation successful planetary commercialized amid sanctions, arsenic Russia plans to experimentation with cross-border crypto settlements.
<a href="https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/12/10/what-does-googles-quantum-computing-chip-mean-for-bitcoin" target="_blank">What Does Google's Quantum Computing Chip Mean for Bitcoin?</a> (CoinDesk): Willow quantum spot marks a breakthrough, performing tasks successful minutes that classical supercomputers would instrumentality 10 septillion years to complete. While the 105-qubit spot highlights quantum computing’s potential, it remains acold from the standard needed to compromise Bitcoin’s encryption. Crypto researchers, including Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin, stress the urgency of processing quantum-resistant algorithms.
<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/10/oil-prices-ease-but-geopolitical-risk-and-china-policy-stance-check-losses.html" target="_blank">Oil Prices Ease, but Geopolitical Risk and China Policy Stance Check Losses</a> (CNBC): Oil prices eased somewhat connected Tuesday but retained earlier gains, driven by geopolitical risks aft Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s autumn and optimism astir China’s plans for economical stimulus. Traders besides await U.S. proviso data, with archetypal signals pointing to declining crude and gasoline stockpiles that could further signifier terms trends.
<a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/indian-rupee-hits-record-low-appointment-new-rbi-chief-spurs-dovish-bets-2024-12-10/" target="_blank">India Rupee Hits Record Low, Bond Yields Dip arsenic Change of Guard astatine RBI Spurs Rate Cut Bets</a> (Reuters): The Indian rupee slid to a grounds debased of 84.85 per U.S. dollar, portion 10-year authorities enslaved yields declined. Traders expect a February complaint chopped nether caller Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malhotra, whose stance is seen arsenic much dovish than his predecessor and who starts his three-year word connected Wednesday.
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-10/ecb-officials-to-lock-horns-over-how-much-cuts-can-boost-economy" target="_blank">ECB Officials to Lock Horns Over How Much Cuts Can Boost Economy</a> (Bloomberg): European Central Bank officials hold connected the request for little rates to enactment the EU's struggling system but clasp differing views connected their effectiveness. Structural issues similar precocious vigor costs and geopolitical risks, specified arsenic the imaginable of accrued US tariffs connected EU exports, whitethorn hinder efforts to stimulate spending and investment.
<a href="https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/rba-hold-rates-steady-but-sounds-more-confident-that-inflation-is-being-tamed-323762b0" target="_blank">RBA Hold Rates Steady But Sounds More Confident That Inflation Is Being Tamed</a> (The Wall Street Journal): The Reserve Bank of Australia held its currency complaint astatine 4.35% connected Tuesday, signaling a much dovish stance by noting easing ostentation risks and narrowing demand-supply imbalances. Business conditions look to beryllium astatine their weakest level since mid-2020, adjacent arsenic the RBA highlights a choky labour marketplace and persistent halfway ostentation pressures.
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