Bitcoin holding steady just below key $38,000 line
Bitcoin failed to find the support from investors it needed to maintain its momentum above $38,000. The market leader by market cap is slightly down by 0.5% at $37,710 this morning.
Ethereum is trading in line with Bitcoin, with the original smart contracts crypto in the red for around $2,031. Other large-cap cryptos have followed the market leaders into the red.
In the greater financial system, the US economy seems to be slowing in response to heightened interest rates from the Federal Reserve Bank. Governor Christopher J Waller, a member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), wrote on Tuesday: “I am encouraged by what we have learned in the past few weeks – something appears to be giving, and it’s the pace of the economy.”
Yesterday’s Crypto AM Daily
In the Markets
Total crypto market cap
🔵 $1.42 trillion
🔻 1.44%
What Bitcoin did yesterday
🔺 Daily high $38,362
🔻 Daily low $37,607
Bitcoin market capitalisation
🟠 BTC $672.406 billion
🟡 Gold $13.603 trillion
💳 Visa $506 billion
Bitcoin volume
Total spot trading volume $20.701 billion
🔻 11.36%
Ethereum staking entry queue
1 hour 4 minutes
CoinDesk Large Cap Select Index
🔻 1.76%
The CoinDesk Large Cap Select Index (DLCS) measures the market cap weighted performance of some of the largest cryptocurrencies.
SP500
🔻 0.09%
FTSE/JSE Top 40
🔺0.48%
Fear and Greed Index
Bitcoin’s market dominance
53.19
Relative Strength Index (RSI)
56
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, while 30 or below indicates an oversold or undervalued condition.
What they said yesterday
“But I am increasingly confident that policy is currently well positioned to slow the economy and get inflation back to 2 percent.”
– Governor Christopher J. Waller, FOMC member
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Cautionary Notes
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