Bitcoin is currently on the brink of forming a new all-time high above $30,000 despite trading at less than $4,000 just nine months ago.
The world’s largest cryptocurrency is now firmly in a bull market as a result of an influx of institutional investment and the poor performance of the US Dollar.
After taking out the previous all-time high of $20,000 with consummate ease, Bitcoin is now seemingly on track with the stock-to-flow model that factors in this summer’s halving event, which saw block rewards for miners slashed from 12.5BTC per block to 6.25BTC per block.
This, coupled with a significant increase in demand, has caused a sell-side supply shock just as it did in 2017.
With sell-side liquidity being so sparse, it paves the way for a strong first quarter in 2020 with several analysts suggesting that $35,000 may be on the cards sooner rather than later.
From a technical perspective, Bitcoin continue to be overbought on the RSI to suggest that a pullback may come into fruition in the New Year, with the $24,000 level of support being a likely target to the downside.
The $24,000 level is also in confluence with the daily 21 exponential moving average, with this particular EMA providing a bounce in late November and earlier this month.
If, however, Bitcoin manages to surge above $30,000 without any form of correction, it will likely continue its parabolic advance over the coming months with upside targets emerging at $64,000 and as high as $100,000.
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About Bitcoin
In August 2008, the domain name bitcoin.org was registered. On 31st October 2008, a paper was published called “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”. This was authored by Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin. To date, no one knows who this person, or people, are.
The paper outlined a method of using a P2P network for electronic transactions without “relying on trust”. On January 3 2009, the Bitcoin network came into existence. Nakamoto mined block number “0” (or the “genesis block”), which had a reward of 50 Bitcoins.
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