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Wednesday 04 October 2023 10:57 am

Bitcoin holds steady above key support level of $27,400

By: Crypto AM Daily with James Bowater | Crypto Insider

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Bitcoin continues to hold the line above $27k, trading for $27,580 this morning, virtually unmoved in the last 24 hours.

Ethereum’s Ether (ETH) continues to retrace as it’s down a further 1.6% from yesterday, trading around $1.6k. 

Other large-caps such as Solana (SOL), Cardano (ADA) and Polygon (MATIC) are all down by more than 2% on the day. Avalanche is bucking the trend and is up by more than 2%. 

The entire crypto market cap is down 0.8%, as the Fear and Greed Index hovers in “Neutral”. 

Yesterday’s Crypto AM Daily

In the Markets

The Bitcoin Economy

*Data can be found at https://terminal.bytetree.com/

🌅Total crypto market cap

🔵 $1.08 trillion

🔻 0.8%

What Bitcoin did yesterday

🔺 Daily high $27,670

🔻 Daily low $27,194

Bitcoin market capitalisation

🟠 BTC $534.27 billion

🟡 Gold $12.116 trillion

💳 Visa $475.87 billion  

Bitcoin volume

🪣 Total spot trading volume $11.433 billion

🔻 37%

SP500

🔻 1.37%

FTSE/JSE Top 40

🔻 0.56%

Fear and Greed Index

Bitcoin’s market dominance

📊 50.43

Relative Strength Index (RSI)

💪 65

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.

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📣 What they said yesterday

US Job Openings increased in August to 9.61 million jobs, led by business services. This was above expectations of 8.815 million and July which was revised to 8.92 million.

This adds fuel to the strong US labour market that can withstand these higher rates. pic.twitter.com/W2YUdyNhiD

— Martin Rodgers, CFA (@SAValueInvestor) October 4, 2023

Whether you’re a Bitcoin expert or a total newbie – or even somewhere in between – you can now join the new HODLers Telegram community to learn more …. or share your insights with others!

Our goal is simple: to provide a safe place where people can ask any question they want about Bitcoin, even if they think it’s a daft one! Learning Bitcoin takes time and we generally have the same questions when we first encounter it, so we know from our own experience having somewhere to ask a real person a specific question can be of great value!

There’s also access to great learning resources and, to cap it all off, we run monthly competitions to win great prizes such as tickets for events, VIP passes, exclusive access to talks and webinars or even just some Sats to add to your stack, all courtesy of our partners!

Even better, the whole thing is completely FREE!

So, if you’re a beginner, or know someone who is, take our fun five question multiple choice quiz and join the group today. Of course, if you’re an expert, you’re also welcome to join and help others who are looking to understand Bitcoin as an asset and the industry as a whole.

Join today!

T’s and C’s: Open to UK residents only. All ages are welcome in the community, but you need to be over 18 to enter competitions. No purchase required.

All feedback on Crypto AM Daily in association with Luno is welcome via email to [email protected] 🙏🏻

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FCA’s new crypto advertising rules met with mixed industry response

ChatGPT urges crypto conference panel not to become over-reliant on AI

Mt. Gox customers will have to wait until November to recover lost Bitcoin funds

Sam Bankman-Fried: A tissue of lies soaked with fake tears?

Three-in-four wealth managers are gearing up for more cryptocurrency exposure

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Crypto.com granted FCA licence to operate in UK

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Q&A with Duncan Coutts, Principal Technical Architect at IO Global

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Jamie Bartlett – on the trail of the missing ‘Cryptoqueen’

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MPs are falling silent over potential of cryptocurrency

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Erica’s ‘Crypto Wars’ handed honours in Business Book Awards

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Crypto AM: Features 

Crypto AM: Founders Series 

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https://morningwire.eu/profile/crypto-am-founders-series/

Crypto AM: Industry Voices 

Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao, CEO of Binance

Crypto AM: Contributors 

Crypto AM: In Conversation with James Bowater

Charles Hoskinson and James Bowater landscape

Crypto AM: Tomorrow’s Money with Gavin S Brown

Tomorrow's Money with Gavin S Brown

Crypto AM: Mixing in the Metaverse with Dr Chris Kacher

Dr Chris Kacher Mixing in the Metaverse

Crypto AM: Visions of the Future, Past & Present with Alex Lightman 

Alex Lightman Visions of the future, past and present

Crypto AM: Tiptoe through the Crypto with Monty Munford 

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Crypto AM: Taking a Byte out of Digital Assets with Jonny Fry

Jonny Fry Taking a Byte out of Digital Assets

Crypto on the catwalk

Stefania Barbaglio Crypto on the Catwalk

Cautionary Notes

It’s definitely tempting to get swept up in the excitement, but please heed these words of caution: Do your own research, only invest what you can afford, and make good decisions. The indicators contained in this article will hopefully help in this. Remember though, the content of this article is for information purposes only and is not investment advice or any form of recommendation or invitation. Morning Wire, Crypto AM and Luno always advise you to obtain your own independent financial advice before investing or trading in cryptocurrency.

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