With Bitcoin and Ethereum so close to their pre-crash highs, the general sentiment in the market seems to be predominantly bullish. In that sense, analyst CroissantEth took the task to summarize the factors causing such sentiment amongst traders and operators.
Via Twitter, the analyst claimed that Bitcoin has increased its levels of attention to levels last seen during May, just before the cryptocurrency lost over 50% of its value in the first of several capitulation events.
In addition, BTC’s second layer payment solution Lightning Network has experienced massive growth in its levels of adoption. The analyst attributed this growth to the introduction of the Bitcoin Law in El Salvador.
As seen below, the Lightning Network recently saw an explosion in its number of payment channels. At present, this metric stands at an all-time high with a 226% increase in the past 12 months.
Source: Glassnode via CroissantEth
Bitcoin will soon implement of its biggest upgrades since its inception, Taproot. To be rollout in November 2021, the upgrade will improve the network privacy and security, and smart contract capabilities. As the Croissant noted, when BTC upgrades “you probably want to pay attention”.
A third potential price catalyzer for BTC is the approval of an Exchange Traded Fund based on Bitcoin derivatives by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Some analysts believe that the BTC ETF approval in the U.S. could trigger a “buy the rumor, sells the news” event. The CEO of Pantera Capital Dan Morehead even went as far as to claim this event will mark the end of Bitcoin’s current bullish cycle.
However, the Croissant disagrees with this take and has defended the importance of a BTC ETF as a way to attract fresh capital into the crypto market. As the analyst previously explained, investing in Bitcoin, after China banned it from its territory, could be considered ESG friendly.
Thus, this could create a new layer of incentives for institutions to allocate capital on the cryptocurrency, the Croissant said:
Investing in Bitcoin is investing in ESG. The significance of this can’t go understated, because it will be the argument needed for institutional adoption of BTC & several key players in the financial industry know this…
Finally, the analyst pointed out that BTC tends to trend to the upside toward the end of the year. The macro-economic landscape offers further incentives, with a “monetary policy disassociated from reality”, for investors to feel attracted to Bitcoin.
BTC trends downwards in the daily chart. Source:
Ethereum On Its Way To A New Era
The second cryptocurrency by market cap Ethereum continues to dominate most of the major trends in the space. From Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), decentralized finances (DeFi), to the play-to-earn model popularize by platforms such as Axie Infinity.
Ethereum seems to have infinite use cases and applications. Thus, many institutions and big players have been turning their attention to this network.
On the other hand, we have Ethereum picking up steam in a bunch of sectors
The explosion of NFTs has brought big players to the blockchain, with new things being announced every day
This has attracted attention from the likes of VISA, GameStop, Budweiser, TikTok, & the NBA.
— 👨🍳.eth (@CroissantEth)
Of course, the recent implementation of EIP-1559, an upgrade on Ethereum’s fee model, has created a bullish catalyzer for ETH’s price. The update burns a portion of every transaction fee on the network effectively turning ETH into a deflationary asset.
The implications of this change are yet to be felt throughout the market, as the Croissant claimed:
EIP-1559 has worked behind the scenes to burn $1.8M worth of $ETH in just 68 days. This is ETH being removed from the existing supply, that would’ve otherwise gone in to the hands of miners (& likely been sold). This is going to have astronomical effects with time
The transition from Ethereum to Eth 2.0 in an event referred to as “The Merge”, is also part of the bullish factors for the cryptocurrency. The “supply shock” effect on ETH’s price and the improvements on the network scalability shouldn’t be underestimated, according to the analyst.
ETH with minor losses in the daily chart. Source:
A literature major, Reynaldo Márquez has been deeply immersed in the crypto industry since 2017. His journey began with translating articles for various crypto news outlets, a role he took on with zeal. In 2018, amidst a challenging market, he embraced his first writing assignment, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to the nascent industry and the promise of change it bears for many people worldwide.
In March 2021, he joined the prestigious crypto news outlet NewsBTC and Bitcoinist, where he not only reported on the latest crypto news but also had the privilege of interviewing some of the industry's most influential figures. A year later, his dedication and hard work were recognized, and he was promoted to Managing Editor, a position he currently holds with pride.
He believes in honesty, good communication, hard work, and the power of cryptocurrency and its potential to transform people's lives, especially those alienated by the legacy financial system. Born in 1992 in Venezuela, Reynaldo is familiar with how governments and central banks can negatively affect people, their everyday lives, and their futures by creating inflation and erasing their hopes for a better future. Thus, like many Venezuelans, he embraced this new technology to help him and his family navigate difficult times.
In another life, Reynaldo would have pursued a career as an investigator, most likely tracking down the origins of the Cyberpunk movement with the publication of William Gibson’s ‘Neuromancer.’ The intersection between fiction and reality, with the materialization of Bitcoin in 2009, would have allowed him to dive deep into the crypto sphere as something more than a financial phenomenon but also a cultural shift in society that was brewing since the XX century, and maybe even sooner, in the XIX century with the publication of Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience.’
But that’s for another life. In this one, Reynaldo has been trading to improve his trading skills. Since 2023, he has been trying to learn Python to create successful strategies and find ways to execute them. It is a difficult task, which continues to keep him busy today and will most likely continue to keep him busy in the near and long term.
In his free time, he enjoys lifting heavy objects, reading, watching movies, and listening to his favorite music. Some of his favorite authors are Walt Whitman, William Faulkner, Allen Ginsberg, James Baldwin, Raymond Carver, Ray Bradbury, George Orwell, Mario Vargas Llosa, Reinaldo Arenas, Rafael Cadenas, and many others. Lately, he has been primarily interested in reading about dystopic societies, a topic that deeply resonates with the crypto industry.
Since 2023, he has lived in Spain with his wife. He loves the weather, the food, and the people and their culture. They both expect to travel much more within the country they now call home and beyond its border. He hopes to retire with his wife, maybe in a quiet place near a beach, but most likely in a city close to a library and a university with his kids and, hopefully, grandkids.
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