Monitoring the Crypto Bubble

Where do you think we are in the crypto bubble?


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Actually that is a very hard assessment to make.
Where to exit? When to exit?
The best answer is probably to exit only if you need the funds, or if you have achieved life changing profits.
But even then, who knows where this will go?
With the ETFs having entered the scene, this feels more like the end of the beginning than anything else.
 
I guess AUD $100,000 is a good exit strategy for some or all of your BTC.

Not me. AUD100K is not even ATH in USD.

Maybe some will take $ off the table but there's no evidence that wallet holders are selling BTC to any extent, most are taking their coins off exchanges if they haven't already done so and OBV is still rising.

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my opinion only.. although the phrase has been said many times before about this time being different, the fact is that institutional capital has entered makes this cycle different, such buyers don't care about price, they care about position...they have unlimited money basically. Sure this does go against the soul and ethos of what BTC is, but it now makes it available to entities which previously could not buy....except for a black swan like Satoshi's wallet moving, where will the volume come from to create say a 70% drop for example? I'm not sure... GBTC outflows have been eaten up easily, MSTR announced another $600 m raise for purpose to buy more BTC, chat of Saudi sov. wealth funds entering if not already. Sure, Blackrock, Fidelity are big but if we get any sniff of another nation state or even a rate cut... it's 100k + no problems at all imo. Last week BTC inflows were last i checked nearly $2b? compared to $20m for gold, BTC has now passed silver in mc, it's going for gold. Record inflows today again for BTC... all my opinion only.
 
PS. if the US government decide to actually sell, (they have already moved BTC to an exchange), yeah sure it will wick down but I think the buying appetite will absorb it very quickly.
 
Mt. Gox still has a whale sized lot of BTC to liquidate for their bankruptcy, but seeing as how Gemini just liquidated $1.3B of BTC in the last week or so and that didn't drive BTC down, I'd say that ETF inflows are going to gobble up anything whales are foolish enough to relinquish.
 
I'm liking this correction, there's been a fair bit of blue sky between the last set of decent lows and the recent high. Gives buyers a chance to DCA in or even open a position, and of course when it corrects we'll have a nice support zone for the next leg up.

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FYI, this might explain some of the trading action of the last day or so:
OKX, the fourth-largest cryptocurrency exchange globally by trading volume, has announced the termination of Tether (USDT) trading pairs for users within the European Economic Area (EEA). This move precedes the full enactment of the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation by the European Union (EU), set to become effective on Dec 30, 2024. MiCA aims to introduce a comprehensive regulatory framework for digital assets, focusing on the restriction of certain stablecoins.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mar...eea-ahead-of-eu-crypto-regulation/ar-BB1k6XRg
 
FYI, this might explain some of the trading action of the last day or so:

Probably not much impact from this. Retail investors will just use USDC or something else and OTC investors can still use USDT.

I'm guessing the price action is more likely to do with Fed's upcoming FOMC meeting in reaction to the recent inflation data and also short-term holders taking profits.
 
FWIW:

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“Dips in #Bitcoin keep on getting shorter and shorter. Meanwhile, rallies are lasting longer and moving quicker,” said analysts for The Kobeissi Letter. “This is a textbook sign that shorts are being squeezed as we hit fresh all-time high territory.”

Because of this, the analysts warned that Bitcoin may be setting up for a short squeeze.

“Currently, the gap between institutional longs and hedge fund shorts is at a record high,” they said. “While hedge funds hold nearly 15,000 in net short contracts, institutions hold nearly 20,000 in net longs.”
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Based on analysis from crypto market intelligence firm CryptoQuant, the pressure on shorts is likely to continue moving forward as the Bitcoin market continues to move closer to a liquidity crisis.

“Bitcoin demand has soared to unprecedented levels this year. We estimate monthly Bitcoin demand has increased from 40K Bitcoin at the start of 2024 to 213K Bitcoin as of the time of publishing,” the firm said in its latest Weekly Crypto Report. “An important factor behind this demand growth is ETF buying, but as of late other large investors have also increased their Bitcoin allocation.”

“On the supply side of the equation, the total Bitcoin readily available for selling continues to decline,” they noted. “The total ‘visible’ amount of Bitcoin at key entities stands at 2.7 million Bitcoin, down from an all-time high of 3.5 million Bitcoin in March 2020.”

“Record Bitcoin demand paired with declining sell-side liquidity has resulted in the liquid inventory of Bitcoin plunging to its lowest ever in terms of months of demand,” the report said. “We estimate that the present Bitcoin sell-side liquidity inventory is only enough to cover the current rate of demand growth for six to twelve months. A declining liquid inventory would support higher prices.”

There is even less liquidity available when exchanges outside of the U.S. are excluded from the calculation.

“The Bitcoin liquid inventory drops to six months of demand if we exclude the Bitcoin on exchanges outside the US,” the report said. “We exclude these exchanges considering that US spot Bitcoin ETFs will only source Bitcoin from US entities.”

According to CryptoQuant founder and CEO Ki Young Ju, sell-side liquidity is now “much lower” than it has been historically relative to demand. ...

https://www.kitco.com/news/article/...oinbase-staking-lawsuit-decision-analyst-warn
 
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