Ethereum

Bitcoin drops below $ 50,000 as Binance issues a “new player” warning

What looks like a “new player” starts to push $ 50,000 on the resistance after a brief Christmas cheer for Bitcoin bulls.

Market update

Bitcoin (BTC) lost $ 50,000 for the first time in days on December 26 as foreign exchange capital inflows were caught with cautious optimism.

BTC / USD 1-hour candlestick chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView

“New Players” bring in $ 50,000 in wall sales

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Professional and TradingView show that volatility hit BTC / USD overnight on Saturday.

The pair hit $ 51,500 before initiating a retracement that culminated in a decline to $ 49,644. At the time of writing, Bitcoin was back at $ 50,000.

The move comes on a piece of music with a surge in inflows into the big Binance exchange, with order book data showing a new resistance wall being built at $ 50,000.

Binance Order Map Heat Chart. Source: material index

The market-shaping behavior of a large investor indicates a market trend, and Binance has Source of doubt about such activities in the past few days.

“This looks like a new player,” noted Data Analytics Account Materials Scientist in comments on Binance’s rapidly changing order book setup.

Binance BTC balance sheet chart. Source: Coinglass

Overall, the wallet balances have increased by 60,000 BTC since December 22, from 1.69 million to 1.75 million BTC, according to data from the on-chain monitoring resource Coinglass.

Ethereum defends $ 4,000 defense area

As a slight relief for altcoin traders, most large-cap tokens remain relatively peaceful after Bitcoin’s recent decline.

Related: Top Crypto Winners and Losers of 2021

Ether (ETH) remains above $ 4,000 at press time.

ETH / USD 1-hour candlestick chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView

Others in the top ten cryptocurrencies by market cap either kept their losses below 1.5% or remained flat.

For ETH / USD, popular trader Pentoshi calls $ 3,940 to $ 4,000 a “key area” that bulls will have to defend in the future.

“The present is long. I want to see some push up and some momentum out of this round bottom. I want to sell 4.4-4.5k, ”he says more.

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