Gold is soaring while Bitcoin – digital Gold – is slumping?
Bitcoin has shown itself to be more correlated w/risk-sensitive assets. Over the past 3yrs, Bitcoin has the highest monthly correlation w/Mag7 at 0.63. Correlation between Bitcoin and Nasdaq 100 is 0.58, between Bitcoin and S&P 500 is 0.54. Correlation between Bitcoin and Gold is very low at 0.23 - at 1 link would denote the two assets trade in sync. (HT @barronsonline) - HolgerZ, Bloomberg
The first ever 2x and -2x spot bitcoin ETFs hit the market yesterday from ProShares.
$BITU and $SBIT (tickers could have been better). $BITX is 2x but it tracks futures and $BITI is -1x but is also futures. Fee 95bps on both. Haven't traded too much so far, under $1m. Source: Eric Balchunas, Bloomberg
NEW: 🇺🇸 Spot Bitcoin ETFs bought 66,008 BTC in March, while miners only produced 28,513 BTC
Source: Bitcoin Magazine
Here's the (probable) reason for today's sell-off on bitcoin ->
*WALLET LABELLED AS 'SILK ROAD DOJ CONFISCATED FUNDS' CONTAINING $2 BILLION OF BITCOIN INSTIGATES POSSIBLE TEST TRANSACTION FOR 0.001 BTC TO COINBASE PRIME WALLET: ARKHAM DATA AND LABELLING - THE BLOCK PRO See chart below highlighting the effects on bitcoin of last Silk Road sale... Source: www.zerohedge.com
Price of a home in the us (median price) vs. bitcoin over time
Source: coinsauce
Goldman: "The institutional Bitcoin net long and hedgefund Bitcoin net short lengths are at record levels".
Is another epic squeeze coming? Source: www.zerohedge.com
The race continues...Bitcoin is up a 'modest' 237% in the last 12 months.
Cocoa is up 310% and NVIDIA 350%. Source: Bloomberg, Jeroen Blokland
It took Gold ETFs 5 years to cross $50 Billion AUM.
Bitcoin did it in 57 days. Source: Bloomberg, Wells Fargo
