Omkar Godbole

Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor and analyst on CoinDesk's Markets team. He has been covering crypto options and futures, as well as macro and cross-asset activity, since 2019, leveraging his prior experience in directional and non-directional derivative strategies at brokerage firms. His extensive background also encompasses the FX markets, having served as a fundamental analyst at currency and commodities desks for Mumbai-based brokerages and FXStreet. Omkar holds small amounts of bitcoin, ether, BitTorrent, tron and dot.

Omkar holds a Master's degree in Finance and a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation.

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First Mover: Bitcoiners May Not Care if Dollar Keeps Its Reserve Status

What if the dollar keeps its reserve status? PLUS: FCA ban, McAfee arrest, commercial real-estate wipeout.

Just as this chariot carried Julius Caesar's trophy of war, the dollar could retain its reserve-currency status.

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Bitcoin's Options Market Retains Long-Term Bull Bias Despite Sluggish Price

Options market data suggests the longer-term path of least resistance for bitcoin is to the higher side.

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Bitcoin Unlikely to Replace US Dollar as Global Reserve: Marc Chandler

"Backing the dollar is the world's biggest, deepest and the most transparent government bond market," said Marc Chandler, chief market strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex and author of the book "Making Sense of the Dollar."

Crypto reserve. (CoinDesk archives)

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BitMEX Ether Futures Trading Contracts Fall by Half in Wake of US Charges

Open interest on the Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange is down nearly 50% from the $125 million observed Oct. 1.

Ether futures open interest on BitMEX has fallen by half since U.S. charges were announced last week.

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First Mover: Day in the Life of a Yield Farmer Means Part-Time Gig, Full-Time Risk

Yield farming steals crypto traders' obsession as bitcoin's volatility falls to 180-day low; Coinbase employees take severance.

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Open Interest in CME Bitcoin Futures Slides as Market Sapped by Surging DeFi

Institutional interest in bitcoin futures has plummeted as the DeFi explosion made carry trades less attractive, said Bequant's Denis Vinokourov.

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Bulls Exit BitMEX Bitcoin Futures Market

Since the announcement from U.S. regulators, BitMEX has witnessed an outflow of more than 40,000 bitcoins, currently worth more than $422 million.

Cumulative bitcoin withdrawals from BitMEX from Oct. 1 17:00 UTC to Oct. 2 14:00 UTC

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Trump COVID Test, BitMEX Charges Bring October Shocks for Bitcoin

Crypto analysts scramble to assess U.S. charges against BitMEX, home of 100x bitcoin perpetual swaps and a venue for getting "rekt."

October is often a volatile month on Wall Street.

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BitMEX Moves $337M in Bitcoin Ahead of First User Withdrawals Since US Charges

Bitcoin outflows from prominent crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX are already up in the wake of charges from U.S. regulators announced Thursday.

Bitcoin outflow from BitMEX

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First Mover: Nine (Bullish) Bitcoin Predictions for Final Months of (Awful) 2020

Bitcoin is outperforming pretty much every other asset class this year, with a 50% YTD gain. Analysts are bullish heading into 4Q.

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