Law Decoded: Making sense of mixed signals, Dec. 13–20
This week in crypto regulation was marked by officials expressing
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Ether Call Demand Signals Anticipation of Year-End Rally
Institution-focused over-the-counter desk Paradigm saw 18,500 contracts of the $4,400 call option and 14,000 contracts of the $4,200 call option change hands during Asian hours. These trades due for expiry on Dec. 31 were executed on Paradigm and booked on Deribit, the leading exchange for cryptocurrency options by volume and
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Despite Red Bitcoin, On-Chain Signals Flip Green
Bitcoin on-chain signals have remained green despite the recent red week. Bitcoin’s price had taken a plunge towards $40K and had brought a lot of losses with it as billions of dollars in long positions were liquidated on December 4th in one of the sharpest declines of the year. Mostly
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Big Gaming Signals NFTS Are Closer to Mainstream
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.With NFTs continuing their rapid advance into mainstream cultural awareness, how much is FOMO (fear of missing out) and how much is real? This time Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy, Jonathan Mohan and Adam B. Levine discuss the evolving battle lines in the nascent world of
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Central Banks Sending Worrisome Signals About the Economy
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeOn today’s episode, NLW gets macro with a discussion of a flattening of the yield curve and what increasingly seems like a failed yield curve control experiment in Australia. He looks at:What the “yield curve” isWhat a yield curve flattening or inversion is
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Lower Trading Volatility in 2021 Crypto Bull Runs Signals Maturing Market
Prior to 2021, bitcoin’s three-month implied volatility (IV) – investors’ expectation of how turbulent prices will be over the ensuing three months – spiked during both bull and bear runs, according to data from crypto data firm Skew. But this year, a similar spike only occurred when the market crashed
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Bitcoin “Supertrend” Begins As Buy Signals Stack On All Major Timeframes
Bitcoin price is above $60,000 and bears are in disbelief. But they shouldn’t be, as bulls have long been in control of the trend. It had only been lower timeframes that had flipped bearish, while the most dominant trend had remained up. According to the Supertrend, all of the most important
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Bitcoin Bearish Signals Go Off Despite Recovery Above $44k, Dead Cat’s Bounce?
Bitcoin observes a few different bearish signals going off despite strong recovery above $44k, could it be a dead cat’s bounce? On-Chain Data Shows Bitcoin Miners Have Started Selling, Funding Rates Have Turned Negative As explained by a CryptoQuant post, a bunch of bearish Bitcoin signals have gone off despite some fresh
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Stablecoin Feature in New York Times Signals Regulation Is Coming — CoinDesk
Regardless of what path U.S. regulators take, they can’t go it alone, the article observes. Without international cooperation on stablecoin regulation, the stablecoins could just move elsewhere. Such international regulation might come in 2023, the Times noted, when the global Financial Stability Board is targeting final adoption of stablecoin regulations
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S&P 500 Chart Signals More Trouble for Bitcoin, Risk Assets
Bitcoin dropped to one and a half-month lows Monday, alongside sharp losses in global equity markets and other growth-sensitive risk assets such as industrial metals, oil and commodity-dependent currencies.The broad-based risk aversion may have just begun as futures tied to the S&P 500 Index have convincingly breached the long-held 50-day
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