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BTC/USD 15 min/3D charts (12/06/2018)

Btc/usd 15 min/3d charts (12/06/2018)

BTC/USD 15 min/3D charts (12/06/2018)

Btc/usd 15 min/3d charts (12/06/2018)

Good morning, traders. bitcoin price remains under pressure this morning and its continued attempts to pull itself away from the resistance line that’s been keeping it in check since the drop from the $6000s have failed. Price has fallen through the black support line on yesterday’s 4H chart which sets up a downside target of $1040 below the point of breach. This would put it between $2677 and the S3 pivot at $2725. Overnight a double bottom was seen on the 15 minute chart which saw price shooting back up toward that black line only to be rejected on its attempt to push through. Volume continues to pick up in the $3600-$3800 area suggesting demand continues to remain present there but the longer price sits in this area the more likely that demand is to dry up.

The current 15 minute pattern appears to be mimicking the previous double bottom from a couple of days earlier as denoted by the blue boxes. RSI has hit oversold and we can see price falling through the dashed red resistance line that has plagued it from the $6000s. Can it pull away this time with volume picking up at these price levels? We will have to wait and see. Liquidated longs continue to pull price downward with every attempt to rise as emotional retail traders FOMO in with heavy leverage. A close below the local swing low at $3629.41 should indicate further downward momentum. However, with RSI already being oversold, my thought is that if price drops below that swing low it will likely close above it creating a Swing Failure Pattern and this should give price a bit of a boost. But remember this is only the 15 minute TF, so it doesn’t hold a lot of power in overall price movement.

The 3D chart shows diminishing volume since 11/18. Playing the longer TF, until price closes above the descending green line, the general expectation should be continued downward movement. The S4 and S5 pivots from the previous periods sit at $3250, so that would be a good place to look for initial support on this TF if price were to fall further. We can see that RSI remains oversold since 11/15, but is attempting to create higher highs and work itself out of that territory. The challenge remains the same as was mentioned for the shorter TFs the past couple of days — potential hidden bearish divergence. The most recent MACD histogram high was on 11/6 which had a price high of $6544, and that histogram is pretty short. With price as low as it is, we would need to see strong movement up to avoid that divergence. Depending on where price is when it makes a push up, it is more likely than not that we will see that divergence play out before price can get anywhere near $5200-$6000.

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Published at Thu, 06 Dec 2018 14:40:23 +0000

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bitcoin users are unhappy about the high costs of transaction fees. bitcoin average transaction fees have spectacularly surged from about $0.69 USD in January 2017, to over $28 USD on December 18, as shown in the chart below. BitInfoCharts provide this chart.

Lightning Network Promises to Reduce Transaction Costs and Confirmation Delays

Moreover, the bitcoin network traffic has become clogged due to the rising demand for transactions per block. As a result, confirming bitcoin transactions is taking an extremely long time. Bitpay explains:

Block sizes are limited, so this means that transactions which exceed the capacity for a block get stuck in a queue for confirmation by bitcoin miners. This queue of unconfirmed transactions is called the bitcoin mempool.

Now, bitcoin enthusiasts and cryptocurrency experts are centering their hopes on the LN approach to reduce transactions fees and long time-delays.

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The bitcoin Lightning Network is essentially a decentralized system where users can set up trustless micropayment channels to conduct one or multiple payment transactions off-blockchain.

These channels reside outside the bitcoin blockchain. However, once the payment channel is closed, the transactions that occurred between the channels are then broadcast, as a single transaction, to the main blockchain network. Thus, no matter the number of micro-transactions conducted, the blockchain is accessed only twice, when the channel is opened and when the channel is closed. Obviously, this approach would significantly reduce the load on the blockchain.

Presently, three teams are independently working on the LN implementation: ACINQ, Blockstream, and Lightning Labs. In early December 2017, they announced that their respective systems had completed payment tests on the main bitcoin network. Moreover, these tests achieved interoperability across all three implantations.

Right now, to educate potential LN users, the website https://htlc.me/ allows you try a testnet bitcoin LN transaction. Reddit user Nabugu provides the details of the test here.

As demand for bitcoin continues to grow, transaction costs and time delays are bound to get worse. However, many bitcoin enthusiasts and experts are excited about LN. For example, Ryan Radloff, co-founder, and principal at CoinShares, explicitly told CNBC that LN was the solution, adding:

[LN] is a technological implementation that, later this year, is going to solve this [problem], and we’re very excited about that.

What do you think would be the impact on the cryptocurrency ecosystem when bitcoin Lightning Network starts allowing users to make cheap micropayments at near-instant speed? Let us know in the comments below.


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