Amidst the crypto winters which led to the price of bitcoin falling massively, institutional adoption is on a rise with many analysts predicting that the bear market was being manipulated by large institutional investors in order to buy bitcoin at the cheapest rates before the entering into the markets.
Greg Tusarm an ex Goldman Sachs executive is comparing the current situation in the cryptocurrency market as early days of equity trading according to Bloomberg. The ex Goldman Sachs executive sees a great future for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies ahead and believes that there are a lot of opportunities for businesses in the crypto space. Greg has also launched his own crypto brokerage called Tagomi Holdings which is backed by large investment firms such as Founders Fund.
Just a few days back, Jeremy Allaire, the CEO of Circle predicted that the price of bitcoin along with other cryptocurrencies will be rising tremendously in the next 3 years.
Paypal Co-founder launches Tagomi Holdings Inc
Peter Thiel, the head of ‘Paypal Mafia’ which is a group of former Paypal employees and founders who have since founded and developed companies such as Tesla motors, Linkedin, Youtube etc. has successfully launched an electronic brokerage startup Tagomi Holdings Inc. The company will help to overcome operational challenges in relation to trading digital assets such as bitcoin. The launch was announced by the company in a press release. Peter had also claimed that Bitcoin can be a hedge against economic downturns. The Founders Fund led by Peter has made huge a massive fund allocation in cryptocurrency startups all around the world.
Bitcoin Price Analysis:
After being bearish for a over a month, bitcoin started a bull run yesterday rising over $200 in just a matter of minutes. Though trading volumes are quite low in comparison to last year’s trading volumes, the current volumes are quite higher than the last few months. Since yesterday Bitcoin is continuing its bullish pattern currently trading around $3641 on Bitfinex (at the time of writing). The price is expected to rise further as a major bullish pattern is formed with the new key support at $3550 (In accordance to Bitfinex Chart). The major bullish pattern line formed will most likely push bitcoin price above $4000 in short term.
Bears turning bullish
Market analysts who were earlier predicting bitcoin to fall below $3000 have now started to make bullish predictions stating that the price of bitcoin can soon reach its original position above $6000 where it was trading earlier before the start of the bearish trend in November this year. More and more institutional investors are buying cryptocurrencies at the current price which is the lowest price for bitcoin for more than a year. Diar has reported that more and more institutional investors are shifting to large over the counter trades for buying bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies lately. The total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies has risen more than $12 billion in 2 days. On Monday, the total market cap was around $103 billion which today stands at around $115 billion.
The following article is not financial advice. The readers are advised to do their own research and analysis before making any investment decisions in the cryptocurrency markets. The following are the viewpoints of the writer and not Coinnounce.
