Omkar Godbole

Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor on CoinDesk's Markets team based in Mumbai, holds a masters degree in Finance and a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) member. Omkar previously worked at FXStreet, writing research on currency markets and as fundamental analyst at currency and commodities desk at Mumbai-based brokerage houses. Omkar holds small amounts of bitcoin, ether, BitTorrent, tron and dot.

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Bitcoin NFTs Back in Spotlight as Ordinals Cross 350K Daily Inscriptions

Bitcoin Ordinals, a method of generating non-fungible tokens (NFTs) through a process called inscribing, debuted in January, bringing the NFT and smart contract narrative to the Bitcoin blockchain.

Ordinals inscriptions: new count (Glassnode)

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Bitcoin Steady Above $30K as China Factory Deflation Suggests End of Global Tightening Cycle Is Near

China is exporting deflation across the Western world. Ultimately this will be good for risk assets as it relates to the end of the global interest-rate increase cycle, one observer said.

Chart of the bitcoin price

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Bitcoin Retakes $30K, Asian Stocks Hit 5-Week Low Ahead of U.S. Jobs Report

The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the nonfarm payrolls report for June at 12:30 UTC.

Bitcoin price. (CoinDesk/Highcharts.com)

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Bitcoin Retreats to $30.6K as Blowout ADP Report Strengthens Fed Rate Hike Bets

Traders now see a 94% chance of the Fed raising rates by 25 basis points later this month.

Bitcoin's price (CoinDesk/Highcharts.com)

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Bitcoin Price Rally Puts Focus on Futures Spread That Underscores Need for Spot ETFs

Observers call for spot-based bitcoin ETF as the bull market raises cost of pre-expiry rollover of positions for futures-based ETFs.

Laser light (WikiImages/Pixabay)

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Bitcoin Could Rally to $125K by End-2024: Matrixport

The forecast is consistent with bitcoin's tendency to chalk out sharp gains in the months after the mining reward halves. The fourth halving is due early next year.

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Bitcoin No Longer Correlated to U.S. Stocks, Crypto Analytics Firm Block Scholes Says

The 90-day rolling correlation between bitcoin and Nasdaq, S&P 500 is now at the lowest level observed since July 2021, according to data tracked by crypto derivatives analytics firm Block Scholes.

Newspaper, compass (AbsolutVision/Pixabay)

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Bitcoin May Be Forming a 'Bull Flag' on Price Chart: Technical Analysis

A bullish flag looks to be forming and would be completed on a breakout above $31,900, analysts at Fairlead Strategies said.

Bitcoin may be forming a "bull flag" (CoinDesk/Highcharts.com)

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Crypto Traders Cautious on Bitcoin as Fiat Liquidity Measures Point Lower

It would be unusual for bitcoin to stay bullish when fiat liquidity measures are pointing lower, one portfolio manager said.

Water, tap (Arcaion/Pixabay)

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Bitcoin Unlikely to Be Destabilized by Real Yields, Crypto Observers Say

The rise in real yields is more of a headache to blue chip stocks than to markets like technology or crypto and will not disrupt the medium-term growth story, one observer said.

Opyn's Crab strategy offers a new way to generate yield in a comatose market. (James Coleman/Unsplash)