Bitcoin strides straight to $ 11,000 while Bakkt announces a record spike in futures trading. Meanwhile, Coinmetrics is putting the Bitcoin network to the test. The market update.
With an increase of 2.3 percent in the last 24 hours, the Bitcoin Billionaire price is gradually feeling its way back to $ 11,000. At the time of going to press, the key crypto currency is trading at 10,892 US dollars, which is 7.6 percent up on a weekly basis.
At the $ 10,800 mark, the Bitcoin price has left an important resistance on the way to 11,000. The cards are now with the cops. At least the futures market indicates that the majority of investors are betting on a rising price.
Bakkt sees record trading in Bitcoin futures
With the rise in the Bitcoin rate, trading on the futures markets also turned up. At Bakkt alone, Bitcoin futures with a total volume of over 200 million US dollars were traded.
The subsidiary of the Intercontinental Exchange announced this record sum via Twitter . Bakkt said 15,955 Bitcoin futures were traded on September 16, up 36 percent from the previous all-time high.
The exchange did not disclose what parts of long and short contracts are made up. Overall, however, investors in the crypto market seem optimistic. According to Datamish there are currently around 26,000 long positions compared to just under 4,660 short contracts.
The distribution of 85 to 15 percent paints a clear picture of the mood. After the profit-taking of the past few weeks, investors are increasingly relying on a rising Bitcoin price.
How decentralized is the network?
The emergence of the Bitcoin network is closely linked to the concept of decentralization and emerged as a reaction to centrally controlled monetary systems. In the past eleven years, however, an ecosystem has formed that the blockchain analysts at Coinmetrics say, in a recent report To take stock of the status quo of decentralization.
Coinmetrics evaluates the degree of decentralization using three metrics: wealth distribution and the influence of mining pools and Bitcoin exchanges.
The distribution of wealth is an important indicator in valuation. The more wealth there is in the fewer hands, the more centralized a market is and therefore more susceptible to manipulation.
The presence of whales or users with large amounts of money residing in the asset is a cause for concern for the viability of many cryptocurrencies. A particularly unequal distribution of funds could give a small group of users a significant impact on the direction of markets and protocol development of a facility, and could jeopardize the facility’s viability as a store of value or medium of exchange.
Conversely, a large diversification of assets indicates a high degree of decentralization. As can be seen from the following graphic, the addresses with 0.01 Bitcoin or less have increased continuously over the past few years.