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 Drops Below $31K Before Rebounding; $8B in Liquidations Triggered

The price of bitcoin is now down more than 30% so far in May, on track for its worst month since November 2018.

The bitcoin price has slipped below the key 200-day simple moving average.

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Why You Shouldn’t Look at Bitcoin Backwardation Like an Oil Trader

Backwardation refers to a downward sloping futures curve where front-month contracts trade at a higher price than far-maturity contracts.

The bitcoin futures market briefly went into backwardation amid this week's price tumult.

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Crypto Exchanges See Fastest Bitcoin Inflows Since ‘Black Thursday’ in March 2020

Inflows are mainly concentrated on the retail-focused Binance, while institutions continue to hold.

Bitcoin inflows to cryptocurrency exchanges surged Monday to a 15-month high.

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Bitcoin Chart Indicator Suggests Worst of Pullback May Be Over

Experienced hands look to be buying the dip as a key bitcoin price indicator suggests the pullback may be coming to an end.

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Bitcoin Suffers Biggest Pullback This Year, Drops to 3.5-Month Low Near $42K

One trading firm says it's now "very cautious of a gap toward $35K level."

Daily bitcoin price chart, showing year's biggest pullbacks.

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Crypto Options Market Makers Starting to Influence Bitcoin Price

"Market makers were heavily short puts in the range of $52,000 to $50,000, and I estimate were forced to sell nearly 2,900 bitcoin," one trader said.

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Decentralized Exchange Aggregator 1inch Network Expands to Polygon

The move will provide 1inch users access to liquidity sources on Polygon, like SushiSwap and Aave.

Left to right: 1inch co-founder Anton Bukov, co-founder Sergej Kunz and smart contract developer Mikhail Melnik.

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Binance's Indian Crypto Exchange Lists SHIB Token as Vitalik Gift Garners Local Press

The new listing comes a day after Ethereum's founder donated $1 billion in SHIB to India Covid Relief Fund.

The Gateway of India in Mumbai.

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Bitcoin Makes Weak Bounce After Tesla Blow but Pullback May Not Be Over: Analyst

Elon Musk's tweets aside, bitcoin remains vulnerable to rising odds of a Fed Reserve rate hike.

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Fairlead's Stockton Warns of Bitcoin Correction to $42K, Based on Technical Analysis

"We are watching $42,000 as support," one analyst said.

Possible head-and-shoulders formation?