The fundamentals of the Bitcoin and Ethereum networks still look strong despite the recent drop in prices.

The hash rate of both recently hit a new all-time high.

The number of active addresses and those holding more than 1,000 BTC is also on the rise.

Bitcoin and Ethereum still look strong at their fundamentals despite the recent drop in prices. Both networks have just achieved record hash rates and it seems that their use is increasing.

The hash rate is peaking as BTC and ETH prices decline, losing some of their gains so far in 2021. Clearly, price volatility has not deterred miners from trading. support either of these two networks.

Crypto prices are falling but fundamentals remain strong

The first two weeks of 2021 were a roller coaster ride for cryptocurrency investors. Bitcoin and Ethereum both started the year by continuing their rallies that started in late 2020.

Bitcoin crossed the $ 30,000 mark on January 2 and continued to climb until it hit a new all-time high on January 8, just below $ 42,000. Meanwhile, ETH hit a high of around $ 1,350 after opening the new year at less than $ 750.

However, the upward momentum came to an abrupt end on Sunday January 10. As of Monday January 11, BTC had fallen to around $ 31,700 and ETH was trading below $ 1,000 again.

Despite a 25% drop in prices, network fundamentals remain solid. As the Coin Metrics ‚ State of the Network ‚ weekly report indicates , some metrics to assess the strength of the cryptocurrency have continued to increase.

ETH Options BTC Surge

In particular, the hash rates of Bitcoin and Ethereum have reached an all-time high. Hash rate refers to the combined power of all of the mining hardware securing a blockchain network.

A growing hash rate indicates that miners continue to deploy hardware to the network in the hope of future profits. This suggests that both Bitcoin and Ethereum miners remain confident, even in the face of a significant drop in price.

Bitcoin’s hash rate hike looks likely to continue, with major operations slated for expansion this year. As BeInCrypto previously reported, several US mining companies recently placed massive orders with mining platform maker Bitmain.

The equipment that Marathon Patent Group and Core Scientific have ordered will not arrive at its destination until the end of the year. This delivery will significantly expand the existing activities of each company.

Bitcoin and Ethereum’s active addresses are also on the rise

In addition to hash rates at their highest level to date, the Coin Metrics report also highlights the growth of active BTC network addresses like ETH. The number of addresses transacting on both networks is approaching the highs set during the 2017 bull market.

Coin Metrics points out, however, that active addresses do not give a clear picture of the growth in network usage. This is because many cryptocurrency users prefer to use multiple addresses. An address therefore does not necessarily correspond to a single user.

The research company wrote, however:

“With this in mind, active addresses are nevertheless a good indirect indication of overall usage. The increase in active BTC and ETH addresses indicates that on-chain activity is increasing for both networks ”.

Additionally, Coin Metrics points to an increase in the number of addresses holding 1,000 BTC or more. Used as an indicator of institutional adoption of Bitcoin, these “whale” addresses have seen a sharp increase since the start of 2021.

Inspired by Michael Saylor’s BTC purchases for his company MicroStrategy, the end of 2020 was marked by the position of several financial institutions and companies in the bitcoin market. Many industry observers expect this trend to continue in 2021.

In this regard, MicroStrategy will be hosting an online event called “ Bitcoin and Corporations ” next month . The business analyst firm will explain how they made the decision to buy BTC, as well as the methods they used to go about it.

The end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021 is a difficult period for cryptocurrency XRP. This is due to the court case of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Ripple, the driving force behind XRP.

Up and down

The XRP exchange rate was 0.64 USD in mid-December, but plummeted to 0.20 USD in just a few weeks.

But in the first week of January 2021, the fifth largest digital cryptocurrency rose 37% back to $ 0.31, the current price. According to data from our Ripple price page, the price has risen 31% in the last 24 hours.

Still, it all feels a little weird. The price increase does not seem logical.

Rain accusations

After all, since the SEC accused Ripple of selling unlicensed securities (XRP) in December 2020, dozens of major exchanges such as Coinbase and Binance US have cancelled XRP. Yesterday, Blockchain.com also stopped trading XRP and it became known that the large Ripple investor Tetragon Financial Group filed an indictment against the company.

Mati Greenspan, the founder of Quantum Economics: „XRP’s performance seems to be comparable to the rest of the market.

United States only

Although the list of exchanges that suspend trading or delete XRP has grown, the asset still has some support. For example, with the exception of the US, the whole world can still trade XRP. The SEC’s court case does not affect, for example, the Netherlands or Asia.

In addition, Americans have also started a citizens‘ initiative. More than 35,000 signatures have been collected for a petition on WhiteHouse.gov asking the American federal government to consider XRP as a currency. They are not there yet, the threshold is 100,000 signatures to get an official answer.

Finally, the big men of Ripple Chris Larsen and Brad Garlinghouse, both mentioned in the SEC court case, recently put forward the idea of relocating the company’s headquarters abroad for legal reasons.

Institutionelle Anleger scheinen die Bitcoin-Rallye auf ein neues Allzeithoch über 24.000 US-Dollar generell verpasst zu haben, da Privatanleger ihre Long-Positionen nutzten, Institute ihre reduzierten und Gewinne mitnahmen.

Laut einem von OKEx Insight veröffentlichten Bericht erreichte Open Interest am Wochenende ein neues Allzeithoch von 8,9 Milliarden US-Dollar, und OKEx führte mit 1,6 Milliarden US-Dollar Open Interest.

In ähnlicher Weise lag der Marktpreis von BTC Perpetual Swaps über dem Indexpreis, da die Refinanzierungsraten einen neuen Höchststand erreichten

Laut OKEx Insight deuten übermäßige Finanzierungsraten auf eine zunehmende Hebelwirkung auf dem Markt hin, was bedeutet, dass Privatanleger, die an Kryptowährungsbörsen handeln, ihre Long-Positionen nutzten, als der Preis von BTC auf sein neues Allzeithoch stieg.

Unter Berufung auf Daten der Chicago Mercantile Exchange, die kurz vor der Überschreitung von 20.000 US-Dollar durch BTC endeten, stellte OKEx fest, dass das Open Interest „in den letzten drei Berichtsperioden kontinuierlich zurückgegangen ist“, was „weiterhin zeigt, dass institutionelle Anleger Gewinne mitnahmen und dies größtenteils taten die letzte Rallye verpasst. “

Die Long-Positionen der Vermögensverwalter fielen vor der Rally von 544 auf 492, während die Short-Positionen von 11 auf 26 stiegen

Die Long-Positionen der Leveraged Funds gingen ebenfalls von 4.365 auf 3.946 zurück, während die Short-Positionen von 9.354 auf 8.702 zurückgingen.

OKEx Insight schreibt, dass diese fallenden und steigenden Short-Positionen darauf hindeuten, dass Vermögensverwalter und Leveraged Funds „den Preisanstieg nicht vorhergesehen haben“ und den Aufwärtsausbruch des Marktes falsch eingeschätzt haben, wahrscheinlich weil sie glaubten, dass der Widerstand von 20.000 USD anhalten würde.

Da der Abwicklungstag für vierteljährliche Futures und Optionen bevorsteht, wird eine größere Volatilität am Markt erwartet, da sich der Preis bei einer größeren Anzahl auslaufender Optionen möglicherweise in Richtung des „Max Pain“ -Punkts bewegt, dem Ausübungspreis mit dem offensten Kontrakt setzt und ruft.

Der Max Pain-Preis, schrieb OKEx, liegt bei 23.750 USD, und eine Bewegung in diese Richtung würde „der größten Anzahl von Optionsinhabern nach Ablauf finanzielle Verluste verursachen.

Letters have life threats and require recipients to send funds in Bitcoin, otherwise they and / or their families would suffer damage possibly by poisoning with the substance in the letter.

Apparently a new wave of blows with cryptomorphs has begun to appear in the world. This time in Canada, with residents of several cities receiving threatening letters in the mail accompanied by a mysterious white powder.

Toronto police issued an alert in the country after several people reported receiving the letter with the suspicious powder and a request for bitcoins.

„Inside the envelope, a letter is accompanied by a bag containing a white powder that is said to be fentanyl,“ the letter instructs the person to deposit Bitcoin Future in exchange for the well-being of his family.

Fentanyl is a morphine-like substance, but 100 times stronger, usually used to treat patients with intense pain, especially after surgery. The synthetic substance is sold illegally as a powder, and some dealers mix it with other drugs such as heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and MDMA. Fentanyl can cause sedation, unconsciousness, drowsiness and even lead to death by overdose.

In other words, receiving the powder at home can mean a great threat to the whole family.

The Canadian police said, however, that after an initial analysis the powder appears to be just confectioner’s sugar.

Residents were warned that this was an attempt at extortion and were instructed not to send any Bitcoin to the scammers.

The people who received the letters did not know what the powder was, they were terrorized and forced to deposit Bitcoin „in exchange for the well-being of the family,“ said the Toronto police.

Last week, as published by Livecoins, a Russian businessman also suffered terrorism threats where the scammers asked Bitcoin not to „blow up his store. In other words, there is a new wave of coups emerging that is focused on blackmail and virtual terrorism.

Extortion involving Bitcoin is not something new, since the advent of digital coins the „cyber bums“ are creating new techniques to steal money from people. The most common being ransomware, a virus that takes control of the computer and asks for Bitcoin’s ransom, and sextortion, a fraud where the scammer claims to have recorded the person on the computer at an „intimate“ moment and asks Bitcoin not to leak the supposed video.

Extortion with terrorism and Bitcoin scam

In the case of the most recent terrorism, the tactic works like this: A scammer threatens the life of the victim, or his family, and asks that a sum of Bitcoin be paid so that they do not commit the crimes.

The Canadian police now investigate the coup and have alerted the entire population to anyone who receives the letter not to handle it and ask for help as soon as possible.

„Our investigators are appealing to the public who are receiving these packages and letters to try, as much as possible, not to handle these letters, take them out, take some kind of trash can or lid and put everything on top of the letter to protect it from the elements and notify the police immediately.

Familien til nederlenderen Didi Taihuttu vakte mye oppmerksomhet tilbake i 2017 da de ga bort alle sine eiendeler for å satse på Bitcoin og bli millionærer.

Som du kanskje har gjettet, har de fortsatt ikke bankkontoer, ifølge et nylig intervju med CNBC.

Bor all-in

Ved første øyekast kan beslutningen om å bytte alt, inkludert barneleker, for Bitcoin Pro og omfavne en livsstil uten materielle eiendeler virke uansvarlig eller galskap. Tross alt hadde Taihuttu en vellykket virksomhet for å forsørge familien sin.

Som rapportert av U.I dag, fikk Taihuttus far som døde av kreft, ham til å revurdere livet sitt, og det er grunnen til at han overbeviste sin kone om å sette alt de hadde i den øverste kryptovalutaen da den handlet under $ 1000.

Gjennom disse årene har familien allerede besøkt over 40 land. De har ikke lenger et koselig hjem, de reiser i en varebil pyntet med kryptovaluta-logoer.

En forsyningskrise

Taihuttus har nå kjørt Bitcoin-berg-og-dalbanen i tre år rett – fra den meteoriske oppgangen i 2017 til den påfølgende krasj i 2018 og den fantastiske utvinningen i 2020.

I stedet for å ta ut penger da Bitcoin krasjet fra nesten 20 000 dollar i desember 2017 til 3 200 dollar i desember 2018, la familien faktisk flere mynter til sine langsiktige beholdninger.

Selv om flaggskipskryptoen nylig nådde en ny alltid, tror ikke Taihuttus at den er midt i en annen boble:

“Jeg ser ikke at etterspørselen går ned. Jeg tror vi er på vei mot en forsyningskrise. „

Crypto-influencer claims trader committed suicide after begging him for help for months.

As a result, @CryptoCobain cut their direct messages

In May, @ActualAdviceBTC also mysteriously died in Thailand, and Cobain retired from Twitter for a time.

On December 6, 2020, influencer Jordan Fish, known in the crypto community as KING CO ฿ IE or @CryptoCobain, shut down direct messages on his Twitter account. He did so after a trader who begged him for financial help allegedly committed suicide.

I closed my direct messages and I will not reopen them. Too many messages of “I’ll kill myself this weekend if you don’t give me 0.2 btc”, and one of them ended up being successful. RIP mate. Sorry I couldn’t help you

The popular Bitcoin Circuit crypto influencer, who has more than 181,000 subscribers, posted a tweet on Sunday saying he will no longer accept direct messages after the suicide of a trader he was in contact with. He said he had received too many suicide threats „unless he pays 0.2 BTC „.

It may be wrong, but I received his messages for 6 months. Unfortunately, I believe it. RIP

Cobain, a promoter whose real name is Jordan Fish and employed at Monzo Bank in the UK, said he could not confirm whether the alleged suicide actually took place. He said, however, that the deceased’s former romantic partner contacted him after the alleged suicide.

This isn’t the first time Cobain has publicly commented on a mysterious death. In May 2020, a young man named Ben, who was using the Twitter handle @ACTUALADVICEBTC, died suddenly in Thailand. Ben was a cult figure, popular on several social media platforms, including Steemit. At the time of his death, Cobain told Decrypt that Ben (probably his friend) had died in his sleep. He also provided a photo where they appeared together.

Bitcoin (BTC/USD) foi volátil na sessão norte-americana de hoje, pois o par apreciou a área de 18193,29 antes de se estabelecer em torno da área de 17890 mais tarde na sessão norte-americana, com a alta intradiária em torno da retração de 76,4% da recente faixa de desvalorização de 18488 a 17205,02. O par negociou tão baixo quanto a área de 17356,00 na sessão européia, após encontrar resistência técnica em torno do nível 18075,50 na sessão asiática. O par negociou recentemente a uma alta de 2020 em torno do nível de 18488,00, e permanece em uma distância impressionante de estabelecer um máximo histórico abaixo do valor psicologicamente importante de 20.000. Os gráficos estão monitorando cuidadosamente a demanda técnica em torno dos níveis-chave, incluindo as áreas 17306.03, 17657.16, e 17891.76. Depois que a demanda levantou recentemente o BTC/USD através do congestionamento técnico, o BTC/USD desafiou outro objetivo de preço superior em torno do nível 18256,14, relacionado à pressão de compra que surgiu em torno da área de 6430,00 no início deste ano.

Paradas significativas foram eleitas recentemente acima das áreas 15935,90 e 16304,69, representando os 76,4% e 78,6% de retração de uma depreciação histórica de 19891,99 a 3128,89. A área de 16945,67 foi um objetivo de preço superior relacionado à pressão de compra que surgiu em torno da área de 7963,25 no início deste ano, e serviu como suporte técnico durante uma recente rechaçada. Entre os objetivos de preços adicionais incluem-se os níveis 18946,91, 20311,36, 20534,46, e 21909,24. Durante os recentes recuos para baixo do BTC/USD, as paradas foram eleitas abaixo de níveis técnicos importantes, incluindo 16092,69, 16057,89, 16046,30, 15969,37, 15955,45, 15856,90, 15846,05, e 15791,00. Mais abaixo da atividade atual do mercado, os comerciantes estão prestando muita atenção a outras áreas potenciais de apoio técnico durante os níveis 14273,50, 14259,01, 14101,50, 13989,55, 13892,29, 13705,50, 13663,43, e 13594,42. Outro nível técnico importante inclui a área 11510,44, representando a retração de 50% de uma depreciação histórica de 19891,99 a 3128,89. Os gráficos estão observando que a MA de 50 bar (4 horas) está em alta indicando acima das 100 bar MA (4 horas) e acima das 200 bar MA (4 horas). Além disso, o MA de 50 bar (horário) está em alta, indicando acima das 100 bar MA (horário) e acima das 200 bar MA (horário).

A atividade de preços está mais próxima das 50-bar MA (4 horas) a 16692,25 e a 50-bar MA (Horário) a 17869,87.

O suporte técnico é esperado em torno de 15459.71/ 15214.33/ 15062.52 com paradas esperadas abaixo.

A resistência técnica é esperada ao redor de 18488.00/ 20311.36/ 21909.24 com paradas esperadas acima.

No gráfico de 4 horas, o SlowK está em alta acima do SlowD enquanto o MACD está em baixa abaixo da MACDAverage.

No gráfico de 60 minutos, o SlowK está em alta acima do SlowD enquanto o MACD está em alta acima da MACDAverage.