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Friday 20 October 2023 11:03 am

Bitcoin nudges $30,000 as SEC’s Ripple climbdown lifts crypto markets

By: Darren Parkin

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It’s a busy day in crypto. Bitcoin is up more than 5% over 24 hours and snagged the key level of $29,000 in the process. The market leader is trading for $29,788 this morning, and has gained 9% over seven days. 

Ethereum (Ether) and other cryptocurrencies are tagging along. The original smart contracts crypto is up 1.9% over 24 hours.

The driving narrative is, undoubtedly, the late news last night that the SEC had dropped its case against Ripple executives Brad Garlinghouse and Chris Larsen.

It’s similarly green across the board today. Solana (SOL) is up by more than 10%, while Cardano (ADA), XRP, Polygon (MATIC) and Avalanche (AVAX) are all up on the day, some more than others. XRP is in the green by more than 6%.

The push across the markets reflects in the 2.8% gains in the crypto market cap of the entire industry. 

Yesterday’s Crypto AM Daily

In the Markets

The Bitcoin Economy

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

🌅Total crypto market cap

🔵 $1.11 trillion

🔺 2.80%

What Bitcoin did yesterday

🔺 Daily high $28,883

🔻 Daily low $28,170

Bitcoin market capitalisation

🟠 BTC $571.688 billion

🟡 Gold $12.949 trillion

💳 Visa $493.89 billion  

Bitcoin volume

🪣 Total spot trading volume $18.204 billion

🔺 43.9%

Ethereum staking entry queue

💎0 minutes

SP500

🔻 0.85%

FTSE/JSE Top 40

🔻 1.05%

Fear and Greed Index

Bitcoin’s market dominance

📊 52.63

Relative Strength Index (RSI)

💪 74.95

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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

“It also showed that market participants and traders have their finger on the trading button and that there is a pent-up demand for good news on the crypto front.”

Jeff Embry, managing partner at crypto hedge fund Globe 3 Capital

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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.

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

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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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