Bitcoin
BTC price tops 10-day highs as Bitcoin whale demand sees ‘huge spike’
Bitcoin (BTC) made essentially the most of weekend volatility on June 26 as a squeeze noticed BTC/USD attain its highest in over every week.
BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Supply: TradingView
“Uncommon whale exercise” flagged
Knowledge from Cointelegraph Markets Professional and TradingView adopted the biggest cryptocurrency as it hit $21,868 on Bitstamp.
Simply hours from the weekly shut, a reversal then set in beneath $21,500, Bitcoin nonetheless in line to seal its first “inexperienced” weekly candle since Might.
The occasion adopted warnings that unstable circumstances each up and down might return throughout low-liquidity weekend buying and selling. On-chain knowledge nonetheless mounted what gave the impression to be shopping for by Bitcoin’s largest-volume investor cohort previous to the uptick.
“Uncommon whale exercise detected in Bitcoin,” standard analytics useful resource Recreation of Trades noticed.
“The availability held by entities with stability 1k-10k BTC simply noticed an enormous spike in demand. Let’s watch if the development confirms.”
An accompanying chart from on-chain analytics agency Glassnode confirmed shifting up markedly from across the time BTC/USD hit lows of $17,600 this month.
BTC provide held by entities with 1,000-10,000 BTC annotated chart. Supply: Video games of Trades/ Twitter
As Cointelegraph reported, whales had eagerly bought BTC under $20,000, forming new help clusters within the course of.
CME futures hole looms giant
For others, nevertheless, conservative views on price motion remained the norm.
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Cointelegraph contributor Michaël van de Poppe eyed the necessity to crack $21,600 definitively as a way to safe the possibilities of additional upside. Moreover, final week’s closing price of $21,100 on CME Group’s Bitcoin futures might present a short-term goal.
“Normal weekend fake-outs taking place and doubtless ending at CME shut at $21.1K for Bitcoin,” he forecast on the day.
“No clear breakout above $21.6K at this level, but.”
CME Bitcoin futures 1-hour candle chart. Supply: TradingView
The month-to-month shut was nonetheless on track to cement Bitcoin’s worst June on document with month-to-month losses of just about 33%.
Together with Might 2021, this could even be the worst-performing month since earlier than the 2018 bear market backside, knowledge from on-chain monitoring useful resource Coinglass confirms.
Bitcoin month-to-month returns chart (screenshot). Supply: Coinglass
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