The cryptocurrency markets are continuing to grow substantially Friday, April 13, after (BTC) , with BTC today above $8,000 and (ETH) having broken above $500 for the first time since March 26.
BTC is currently trading at around $8,118, up by almost 18 percent over a 24 hour period to press time.
ETH is up by over 22 percent over a 24 hour period to press time, currently trading for around $513.
All of the top ten coins are CoinMarketCap are in the green, all with gains of more than 10 percent on the day. has seen the most growth, up more than 35 percent over a 24 hour period and currently trading around $1.42.
Total market cap is now solidly above $300 bln, at around $323 bln by press time, having jumped around $52 bln since yesterday.
The overall price spike could be attributed to a report released yesterday that , but the week has seen other positive crypto news that could have contributed in a big way as well.
Fundstrat’s sees the reason for the rise as a combo of Santander’s news that they , that crypto selling for taxes is almost at its end, and that “speculative short investors [are] being squeezed out of the market for the surge,” according to .
According to Miguel Shwiezer, the co-founder of hedge fund Quantia Capital, the price jump caused short sellers to close positions, “spurring a waterfall of buy orders.” Bloomberg writes that there were more than 38,000 bitcoin shor positions as of April 12 on Bitfinex, and short positions have now dropped to around 24,000, according to data from .
This week also saw a plethora of money and talent moving into the crypto sphere and possibly influencing the crypto markets —reports circulated that billionaire investor George Soros would , the Rockefeller’s venture capital arm to support crypto and development, and a executive future crypto merchant bank.
In response to the relatively unexpected price rise, crypto Twitter has responded with a variety of memes and jokes. Cypherpunk Jameson Lopp posted a screenshot of two news articles claiming that BTC’s price was unlikely to rise:
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— Jameson Lopp (@lopp)
Twitter user CryptoSqueeze posted a gif of unexpected monetary gain via the computer:
Current Mood
— Squeeze (@cryptoSqueeze)
And Twitter use CarpeNoctom posted that he couldn’t remember if BTC’s price over $7,500 was “good or bad”:
bitcoin price has been so volatile, I woke up and couldn’t remember if 7500+ was good or bad
— #33kByJuly2018Moku (@CarpeNoctom)
Published at Fri, 13 Apr 2018 09:41:49 +0000
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