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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First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Hovers Below $48K; Immutable X Soars

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Feb. 12, 2024.

Immutable chart (CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin May Face Stiff Resistance Near $48.5K, On-Chain Analysis Shows

Nearly 270,000 BTC have been acquired at an average cost of $48,491, as analysis by IntoTheBlock shows.

Bitcoin Addresses (IntoTheBlock)

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Ethereum Validator Entry Queue Signals Renewed Interest in Staking

The validator entry queue has jumped to 7,045, the highest since Oct. 6, according to data source ValidatorQueue.

Staking (Shutterstock)

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Bitcoin Logs Biggest Weekly Gain Since October as S&P 500 Tops 5K

The S&P 500 look expensive relative to bonds, but that does not imply risk aversion or outflow of money from stocks and crypto and into Treasury notes.

BTC's price (CoinDesk)

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First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Holds $43K

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Feb. 2, 2024.

LINK price, Feb. 2 2024 (CoinDesk)

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Chainlink's LINK Token Taps 22-Month High of $18, Ending Three-Month Breather

Analysts consider LINK as the safest bet to profit from the tokenization narrative.

LINK's price (CoinDesk)

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Traders Prefer Bitcoin to Ether Despite Developing Spot ETH ETF Narrative

The ether-bitcoin forward term structure is downward sloping structure, which means that traders expect ETH to perform weaker than BTC as time goes by, one trader said.

A SOL block trade bets on big rally (Tumisu/Pixabay)

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First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Regains $42K Following Wednesday's Dip

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Feb. 1, 2024.

BTC price, Feb. 1 2024 (CoinDesk)

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ARK Invest Says Optimal Bitcoin Portfolio Allocation for 2023 Was 19.4%

The optimum allocation is up from 0.5% in 2015 and 6.2% in 2022.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood (Marco Bello/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)

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It May Be Time for Bitcoin Traders to Focus on John Bollinger's Price Bands Again

Bitcoin's monthly chart Bollinger bandwidth resembles a pattern seen before the near-vertical rallies of 2020 and 2016.

Didgeman/Pixabay