By Darren Parkin
Bitcoin’s lack of robust support at $28k yesterday seems to have disappeared as the market leader is trading strongly above $28,200 this morning. Meanwhile, Ethereum has rallied by 4% to again trade around $1,800.
While Bitcoin and US banks have been the centre of conversation in past weeks, Cardano and XRP have silently been collecting large green candles. Cardano is trading up by 14% this morning and 10% in the last week. XRP had a big day, adding 20% to its price in the last 24 hours.
It’s also a big day for traditional and DeFi markets – and the global economy – as the Federal Reserve is set to announce its latest interest rate hike later today. Fed Chair Jerome Powell has to walk the tightrope of bringing down inflation by raising rates without further damaging the economy and the financial sector, as analysts continue to point out.
“This is probably the toughest decision the Fed has had to make in a while,” Ryan Sweet, chief economist at Oxford Economics, told the BBC. Sweet is expecting a 0.25% rate increase.
Yesterday’s Crypto AM Daily in association with Luno
In the markets
The Bitcoin economy
*Data can be found at https://terminal.bytetree.com/
Total crypto market cap
The total capitalisation of the entire cryptocurrency market this morning was $1.183 trillion.
What Bitcoin did yesterday
We closed yesterday, March 21, at a price of $28,175. The daily high yesterday was $28,439, and the daily low was $27,439.
Bitcoin market capitalisation
Bitcoin’s market capitalisation this morning was$543,893 billion. To put it into context, the market cap of gold is $12.792 trillion and Tesla is $625.16 billion.
Bitcoin volume
The total spot trading volume reported by all exchanges over the last 24 hours was $33,297 billion. High volumes can indicate that a significant price movement has stronger support.
Volatility
The price volatility of Bitcoin over the last 30 days is 63.89%.
Fear and Greed Index
Market sentiment today is 62, in Greed.
Bitcoin’s market dominance
Bitcoin’s market dominance today is 47.27. Its lowest ever recorded dominance was 37.09 on January 1 2018.
Relative Strength Index (RSI)
The daily RSI is currently 69.40.Values of 70 or above indicate that an asset is becoming overbought and may be primed for a trend reversal or experience a correction in price – an RSI reading of 30 or below indicates an oversold or undervalued condition.
Soundbite of the day
We all sense a paradigm shift. Nobody knows what the financial system will look like on the other side of this, but here’s my hope: it’s far better capitalized and stable, far more liquid (banks will hold A LOT more cash), and offers far better tech (the anti-tech regulatory push will have failed, as people will have voted with their feet to better, faster & cheaper payments & more stable tech systems-yes, including bitcoin.)
Caitlin Long, CEO and founder of Custodia Bank
What they said yesterday
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