Crypto Closing Bell: Bitcoin hits $26k again while X-factor cryptos STX, CFX and IMX surge
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That’s about it for another week on the rolling magical internet money mystery tour that is Coinhead. But before we pull up virtual stumps, how are Bitcoin and pals sitting right now? Pretty well, actually. Let’s take a quick look before we grab ourselves something else that’s a bit frothy…
With the overall crypto market cap at US$1.16 trillion, up about 4.1% since this morning, here’s the current state of play among top 10 tokens – according to CoinGecko.
Looks like Binance coin BNB is holding onto those gains we noted earlier today, while everything else in the majors are looking in decent Friday-arvo shape – especially Bitcoin, which is encouraging.
It’ll certainly encourage the likes of popular trader/analyst Rekt Capital – he of 338,100 Twitter followers. The crypto chart lover has been writing just lately about the possibility of BTC breaking its “macro downtrend”.
Rekt went on to explain what Bitcoin breaking the downtrend would mean for crypto – the kickstart of a new “macro money flow cycle” with fiat feeding into Bitcoin, and then further into the riskier alts (altcoins).
When #BTC breaks the Macro Downtrend…
It will kickstart a new macro Money Flow Cycle$BTC #Crypto #Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/VoZsRNE931
— Rekt Capital (@rektcapital) March 15, 2023
Additionally, the analyst is pinpointing the specific US$23,400 price as the place to hit and stay above as March closes out. Well, so far so good for the moment. But you know it goes with Bitcoin – its price narrative can easily flip at the drop of hardware wallet.
#BTC is below the Macro Downtrend resistance
But the way the Downtrend is constructed, breakout price point will be ~$23400 next month
So if $BTC holds these highs or even just stays above ~$23400 heading into April…
It will register a technical breakout#Crypto #Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/3FuSAjwKXd
— Rekt Capital (@rektcapital) March 15, 2023
Sweeping a market-cap range of about US$8.3 billion to about US$420 million in the rest of the top 100, let’s find some of the biggest 24-hour gainers and losers at press time. (Stats accurate at time of publishing, based on CoinGecko.com data.)
PUMPERS
• Stacks (STX), (market cap: US$1.37 billion) +11%
• Conflux (CFX), (mc: US$661 million) +10%
• Arweave (AR), (mc: US$439 million) +10%
• Fantom (FTM), (mc: US$1.22 billion) +10%
• ImmutableX (IMX), (mc: US$1.13 billion) +7%
SLUMPERS
• Kava (KAVA), (market cap: US$442 million) -11%
• Maker (MKR), (mc: US$645 million) -5%
• GMX (GMX), (mc: US$669 million) -4%
The crypto market’s leading sentiment tracker, the Fear & Greed Index slipped back into Neutral earlier this week after wobbling slightly off the road amid the banking contagion fears late last week.
Let’s see if it can coast along without too much of a hitch until it reaches a fork in the road next week when the US Fed announces what the hell it plans to do next by way of interest-rate hikes.
Source: alternative.me
Some pertinence and randomness that stuck with us on our morning moves through the Crypto Twitterverse.
The Layer 2 beast of a protocol Arbitrum – a major competitor to the likes of Polygon (MATIC) and Optimism (OP) has announced the airdrop plans for its $ARB token.
Miles Deutscher here, who we included on our recent Crypto Twitter “alpha” list, tells you all you need to know, including whether you did enough to qualify for the airdrop in the first place.
Arbitrum just announced their highly anticipated $ARB airdrop.
It's set to be one of the biggest airdrops in crypto history.
🧵: Here's everything you need to know.👇
— Miles Deutscher (@milesdeutscher) March 17, 2023
This is our time!! Let’s go team $BTC!! Let’s go $ETH!!
The decentralized revolution is happening.
— Mike Novogratz (@novogratz) March 17, 2023
Historic day on Wall Street today with 11 banks agreeing to deposit a total of $30 billion at First Republic to show confidence in the regional bank and attempt to stabilize the sector.
Here's a breakdown of the deposits as a % of Assets/Deposits/Cash for each of the 11 banks… pic.twitter.com/QKqN84cBAE
— Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) March 17, 2023
There are a couple of big NFT events coming up next week in Melbourne if interested…
Don’t miss out on your chance to see and network with this 🔥 lineup in action at our #CX3conference on Monday! #web3 https://t.co/hV7dpAmsb5 pic.twitter.com/3iY5K6xVwm
— Lisa Teh 🇦🇺 (@lisateh_) March 17, 2023
Good on the team at @NFT_MELBOURNE As Steve said, organizing events is tough at the best of times. Even harder when things are this tricky. Some awesome names and talent in this roster. Best of luck with the event! Thursday 23rd March. https://t.co/un6i3BMErn
— Caroline Bowler (@CaroBowler) March 17, 2023
Another top Jim Cramer call here…
FRC nearly -80% since Jim called it a "very good bank" less than a week ago pic.twitter.com/1Z3TII4IFR
— Inverse Cramer (Not Jim Cramer) (@CramerTracker) March 16, 2023
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