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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Finance

MassMutual's Bitcoin Buy May Presage $600B Institutional Flood: JPMorgan

JPMorgan analysts said MassMutual's recent $100 million bitcoin purchases are a sign of growing mainstream acceptance for the cryptocurrency.

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Markets

First Mover: Stimulus Bet Wins Even as Bitcoin Slips Below $18K

MassMutual's push into bitcoin shows increasing adoption – of the narrative the cryptocurrency can work as a hedge against central-bank money printing.

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Markets

Wallets With Over 1,000 Bitcoin Have Hit Record Number: Chainalysis

The data backs the popular narrative that institutional bitcoin investors have been leading the 2020 price rally.

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Finance

India's Banks Are Once More Serving Crypto Traders and Exchanges

Indian banks have started doing business with select cryptocurrency exchanges and their customers, CoinDesk has confirmed.

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Markets

Bitcoin's Rising Popularity With Investors Means Gold Will 'Suffer': JPMorgan

"The adoption of bitcoin by institutional investors has only begun, while for gold its adoption by institutional investors is very advanced," a JPMorgan managing director wrote in the report.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon

Markets

First Mover: Why Wells Fargo Won't Recommend Bitcoin to Clients

A Wells Fargo unit doesn't recommend bitcoin to clients because they can't yet hold cryptocurrency in their accounts. What if that changed?   

Wells Fargo clients can't buy cryptocurrencies in their accounts, keeping them from taking part in this year's outsize bitcoin rally.

Markets

Bitcoin's Options Market Skews Bearish as Spot Price Loses Ground

Bitcoin's fall toward $18,000 has revived demand for short-dated put options as a way to hedge downside risk.

Bitcoin price for the last 24 hours

Markets

First Mover: Wells Fargo Bitcoin Briefing Could Signal Bull Run Intact

As banks like Wells Fargo come around to writing about bitcoin, pro crypto analysts are scrutinizing blockchain network activity for clues on market cycle.

Market sentiment has been dampened, as in this 18th century Korean painting of a rainy landscape.

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Bitcoin Drops 2% as European Stocks See Losses on Brexit Concerns

Bitcoin took a dip Tuesday as traditional markets suffer the jitters over fears of a "no-deal" Brexit.

Bitcoin price chart for the last 24 hours

Markets

How One Bitcoin Options Trader Turned $638K Into $4.4M in 5 Weeks

As bitcoin rallied from $13,400 to over $19,000, a trader who bought the $36,000-strike January expiry call saw a paper profit of more than $4 million.

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