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 Options Traders Position for Gains (to $80K?) in Historically Bullish April

Theoretically, the $80,000 call represents a bet that bitcoin would settle above that level on April 30.

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RBI Is Assessing Digital Rupee's Impact on Financial Stability, Says Governor Shaktikanta Das

The RBI is examining the impact of the digital rupee on the financial stability in the economy.

Ghansi Bazaar, India.

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Bitcoin Traders Brace for Record $6B in Options to Expire Friday

The record bitcoin options expiry could be bearish overhang on the market.

Chart showing open bitcoin options contracts, listed by their strike prices, reveals the "max pain" point at $44,000.

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Bitcoin Rises Despite Dollar Strength as Elon Musk Adds BTC Payment Option

Tesla accepting bitcoin payments and running its own nodes is "massively bullish," according to one analyst.

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Bitcoin Transfer Worth $806M Might Reveal Big Institutional Purchase

"My speculative guess is that institutions are buying bitcoin's price dip," one analyst said.

CryptoQuant chart shows the big transfer off of Coinbase Pro.

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Bitcoin's Risk-Reward Ratio Suggests Bull Run Has Plenty of Scope to Continue

Bitcoin's "reserve risk" metric indicates the cryptocurrency is nowhere close to a major price top.

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Bitcoin's Price Volatility Expectations Slip to Lowest in 3 Months

"Falling implied volatility suggests that markets are expecting sideways price action," one analyst said.

Bitcoin's one-month implied volatility

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Bitcoin Searches Spike in Turkey as Central Bank Chief Fired, Lira Plummets

Turks might be looking for bitcoin as a potential store of value against further currency weakening or as a hedge against inflation.

Google searches on "Bitcoin" are soaring in Turkey after the president's replacement of the country's top central banker sent the local currency, the lira, plunging.

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Bitcoin Price Chart Shows Bull Fatigue as Analyst Sees 'Rising Wedge'

Bitcoin looks to have charted a rising wedge pattern, a sign of uptrend fatigue.

Patrick Heusser sees a "rising wedge" in bitcoin's 4-hour price chart.

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This Ether Options Play by Institutions Has Lottery Ticket Potential

A pair of wildly speculative options trades on cryptocurrency trading network Paradigm has analysts’ tongues wagging.

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