{"id":132024,"date":"2020-04-29T13:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=132024"},"modified":"2020-04-30T00:20:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T23:20:35","slug":"bitcoin-moves-back-above-8000-as-optimism-around-the-halving-explodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/bitcoin-moves-back-above-8000-as-optimism-around-the-halving-explodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin moves above $8,700 as optimism around the halving explodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin is ticking up once again as the chatter about the upcoming halving skyrockets across social media platforms and news outlets.<\/p>\n<h2>Social metrics about Bitcoin's halving explode<\/h2>\n<p>Bitcoin is back above $8,000 fully erasing all the losses incurred during Black Thursday. The bullish momentum appears to be fuelled by the high expectations that market participants have about what the upcoming halving has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/trends.google.com\/trends\/explore?date=today%205-y&q=bitcoin%20halving\">Google searches<\/a> for the keyword \u201cbitcoin halving\u201d are hitting all-time highs, <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/santiment\/\">Santiment<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/santimentfeed\/status\/1255288737921224704?s=20\">reported<\/a> that the chatter around this topic across multiple social media platforms is also exploding. The behavior analytics start-up affirmed that interest levels are rising alongside price showing signs of optimism among investors.<\/p>\n<p>Santiment said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe interest levels are mostly correlating with positive momentum, meaning crowd consensus is widely optimistic about this event in spite of there being no guarantee of a price explosion (in either direction) at the time the halving finally executes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure style=\"width: 1842px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/EWusoCFWAAU3WRf?format=jpg&name=large\" alt=\"Bitcoin's Social Volume by Santiment\" width=\"1842\" height=\"859\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bitcoin's Social Volume by <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/santiment\/\">Santiment<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A similar pattern can be seen in the use of the word \u201chalving\u201d in news articles being published about Bitcoin, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTIEIO\/status\/1255190043448107009?s=20\">explained<\/a> The TIE. The alternative data firm stated that most publications related to the flagship cryptocurrency make reference to the halving outpacing the mentions of gold and coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the block rewards reduction event has \u201ceclipsed coronavirus as the dominant narrative for Bitcoin\u201d on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The TIE stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere have been 1,278 tweets about the Bitcoin halving over the last 24 hours with 68% positive. &#8220;Mining&#8221; is also one of the ten most used words in Bitcoin tweets today for the first time since at least 2017.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure style=\"width: 883px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/EWtUThhUYAAMpH6?format=png&name=900x900\" alt=\"Halving Mentions In Bitcoin Headlines by The TIE\" width=\"883\" height=\"544\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Halving Mentions In Bitcoin Headlines by The TIE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Uncertain price implications<\/h2>\n<p>Even though market participants appear to be growing overwhelmingly bullish, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/soonaorlater\/status\/1157110548598861824?s=20\">data<\/a> reveals that the short-term outcome after the halving is not always optimal.<\/p>\n<p>Following the 2016 block rewards reduction event, for instance, Bitcoin took a 27 percent nosedive. And, after one month had passed it was still down by more than 11 percent.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/EA7h57rWwAAuZku?format=jpg&name=900x900\" alt=\"Bitcoin's Price Around the Halving \" width=\"750\" height=\"460\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bitcoin's Price Around the Halving. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/soonaorlater\/status\/1157110548598861824?s=20\">Twitter<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As emotions heat up in vicinity of this event, technical analyst Micha\u00ebl van de Poppe <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CryptoMichNL\/status\/1255399810124914688?s=20\">suggested<\/a> that Bitcoin could advance further up to the $8,400 resistance level. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/companies\/intotheblock\/\">IntoTheBlock\u2019s<\/a> \u201cIn\/Out of the Money Around Price\u201d model reveals that the bulls may have trouble pushing prices towards this target.<\/p>\n<p>This fundamental index estimates that nearly 570,000 addresses bought over 340,000 BTC between $8,170 and $8,400. Such a massive supply wall could put a stop to the bellwether cryptocurrency\u2019s uprising.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_132025\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-132025\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-132025 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2020-04-29-at-13.22.56-1024x368.png\" alt=\"In\/Out of the Money Around Price by IntoTheBlock \" width=\"1024\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2020-04-29-at-13.22.56-1024x368.png 1024w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2020-04-29-at-13.22.56-300x108.png 300w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2020-04-29-at-13.22.56-768x276.png 768w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2020-04-29-at-13.22.56-1536x551.png 1536w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2020-04-29-at-13.22.56-2048x735.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-132025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In\/Out of the Money Around Price by <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/companies\/intotheblock\/\">IntoTheBlock <\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>High levels of volatility have characterized all the previous halvings. And, the upcoming one does not seem to fall far from the tree. Regardless of the popular belief, investors must remain aware of the different outcomes to avoid <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/ahead-of-halving-volatility-metric-shows-bitcoin-is-near-recent-sell-off-levels\/\">adverse market conditions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin is ticking up once again as the chatter about the upcoming halving skyrockets across social media platforms and news outlets. Social metrics about Bitcoin&#8217;s halving explode Bitcoin is back above $8,000 fully erasing all the losses incurred during Black Thursday. The bullish momentum appears to be fuelled by the high expectations that market participants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":129955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,15323],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.9 (Yoast SEO v21.9.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bitcoin moves above $8,700 as optimism around the halving explodes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bitcoin is back in the green as the chatter about the upcoming halving skyrockets across social media platforms and news outlets.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/bitcoin-moves-back-above-8000-as-optimism-around-the-halving-explodes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bitcoin moves above $8,700 as optimism around the halving explodes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bitcoin is back in the green as the chatter about the upcoming halving skyrockets across social media platforms and news outlets.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/bitcoin-moves-back-above-8000-as-optimism-around-the-halving-explodes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"CryptoSlate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-29T12:00:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-04-29T23:20:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bitcoin-balloons.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ali Martinez\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cryptoslate\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cryptoslate\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ali Martinez\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/bitcoin-moves-back-above-8000-as-optimism-around-the-halving-explodes\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/bitcoin-moves-back-above-8000-as-optimism-around-the-halving-explodes\/\"},\"author\":{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/ali-martinez\/#person\",\"name\":\"Ali Martinez\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/ali-martinez\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/ali-martinez\/\"},\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/ali-martinez\/#authorimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/victor-charles-profile-e1555981456737-300x300.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/victor-charles-profile-e1555981456737-300x300.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Ali Martinez\"},\"jobTitle\":\"Analyst\",\"description\":\"Ali came across Bitcoin\u2019s whitepaper in 2014. 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