Here’s What Could Be Next for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Two Low-Cap Altcoins, According to Top Trader

High-profile pseudonymous trader Capo is laying out the path ahead for Bitcoin, Ethereum and two low-cap crypto assets as the entire market struggles to recover from a major correction.

In a series of tweets this week, Capo attempts to sort out what is in store for Bitcoin and Ethereum holders.

After its crash to just above $30,000 on May 19th, Capo reasons that Bitcoin may be preparing to make a V-shaped recovery.

Capo compares Bitcoin’s recent flash crash to the S&P 500 (SPX) correction in 1987 when SPX rapidly plummeted down from the $340 region to about $215.

After the SPX crash, the chart bounced and put in a new high within a three-year period. If Bitcoin can consolidate above $30,000, reasons Capo, the flagship cryptocurrency may not put in any lower lows from here.

“Disclaimer: fractals are just a help for direction. They don’t always play out. If price consolidates below $30,000 showing weakness, this fractal is no longer valid, and you can expect lower prices.”

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Capo also believes that Bitcoin dominance, or BTC.D, has not reached its cycle bottom, meaning that he believes altcoins will still be able to capture more of the market share before the bull run is over. When the BTC.D chart bottoms out, however, Capo will concede that the crypto bull run has terminated.

“BTC.D. Bitcoin dominance is doing a DCB (dead cat bounce). I don’t see any bottom signs. When this chart reaches its bottom, the bull cycle is likely to end.

If you have doubts, this is very bullish.”

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As for Ethereum, Capo notes that the asset’s recent price action looks eerily similar to ETH’s price action when it crashed in March of 2020. He predicts that the asset has likely bottomed out against the US dollar and will now start a slow climb back up.

“ETH. March 2020 vs. now update. Last low must hold.”

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The trader also remains bullish on two low-cap altcoins in their BTC pairs. Capo mentions that the utility token of the Sandbox ecosystem, SAND, looks prepared to run against Bitcoin.

“SAND/BTC. Is it me or this looks f****** awesome?”

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Additionally, the analyst tells his 118,000 Twitter follwers that despite a devastating week for most altcoins, top Polkadot (DOT) project Phala Network (PHA) is looking appealing in its Bitcoin pair (PHA/BTC).

“PHA/BTC. BULLISH”

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4 Signals That the Bitcoin Crash Might Soon Reach a Local Bottom

A bullish case isn’t on many people’s minds – but signs are cropping up that Bitcoin may indeed be headed for a trend reversal. Here are some signs explaining why BTC might be overdue for a renewed uptick.

Bitcoin reached its all-time high of almost $65K on April 14, 2021, a little over a month ago. However, over the past 10 days the price violently broke down from the $50K mark and even reached $30K last Wednesday.

The bearish sentiment affected the whole crypto market, as altcoins suffered even more: ETH, which saw its all-time high of $4400 just 11 days ago, dropped earlier today below $1800, before a slight correction as of writing these lines.

Where is the bottom for this ongoing crypto bloodbath? No one knows, but it might be worth keeping an eye on the following optimistic signals.

Crypto Fear & Greed Index: Remember April 2020?

The crypto fear & greed index is now at levels not seen since April 2020, which is about the time when the last crypto market crash occurred, taking BTC down below $4,000, losing over 50% in two days at the peak of the pandemic “Black Thursday.”

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In hindsight, it was an amazing time to buy in, but it wasn’t necessarily obvious back then. These days, Bitcoin has fallen over 50% from its ~$65,000 high down to $30,000 on Wednesday – is the index right once again, and is this crash a blessing in disguise for people with stablecoins on the sidelines?


S2F Model: Lower Band At $30K

Similarly, the stock to flow (S2F) model indicates that BTC is due for an upwards rebound at the $30,000 mark given its stage in the cycle. The S2F model treats Bitcoin as a commodity (given that it has a fixed supply and limited issuance, similar to gold) and thus factors in circulating supply and production speed in order to determine scarcity and therefore price.

IN BITCOIN’S SHORT HISTORY, the S2F model and 4-year cycle have been proven to be reliable. As been stated by PlanB, the creator of the mode: “The continuation of this crash into the next few weeks (effectively the end of the bull cycle) would invalidate the S2F model and 4-year cycle model,” which have so far been sound – many analysts predict that it’s not yet time for things to turn around for the worse.

S2F currently plots the lower band at $30K, which is this week’s current low.

On-Exchange Stablecoins At ATH, Waiting Aside?

The amount of stablecoins on exchanges is at a yearly ATH – Lex Moskovski opines that there are ‘a lot of bullets waiting to be deployed from the sidelines.’

Of course, this could merely be a function of a large number of new entrants into the cryptocurrency ecosystem, but it most likely means big players are gearing up to bring in large buys.

In addition, John Bollinger, the creator of the Bollinger Bands indicator, believes that BTC might be nearing a local double bottom.

All of these indicators come together and paint a better picture of Bitcoin’s immediate short-term potential than the market is making it out to seem. After the past few days’ waves of incessant bearish moves, it may be time for BTC to take a breather, as RSI indicates that we are heavily oversold.

Vaporware Altcoins Bleeding Out – BTC Dominance Rising

It’s clear that altcoins have more to worry about – Bitcoin dominance has hit a local bottom at ~40% and has been steadily trending upwards (currently sitting at 47%). It’ll most likely recover even more as the market sheds off the excess weight that had been added on by vaporware coins fuelled by the speculative altcoin mania bubble.

Those dogecoin copycats can be easily referred to as “dumb money” and “weak hands.” Once those hands are gone – the smarter money will return to the large-caps cryptocurrencies and, most likely, to the king of them, which is Bitcoin.

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Crypto Market Continues to Slide After Week of Chaos

Key Takeaways

  • BTC, ETH, and most other leading crypto tokens plunged Sunday in another day of selloffs.
  • The market faced a heavy correction this week amid fears over China’s regulatory stance on crypto.
  • Although sentiment has turned low, it’s unclear whether the bear trend will last.




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The cryptocurrency bloodbath continues. 

Market Faces Heavy Correction 

Bitcoin and other crypto assets plunged Sunday, days after one of the market’s biggest crashes in over a year. 

The leading crypto slid 11.3% today, closing the week almost 29.7% in the red. It’s trading at around $33,320 at the time of writing. Ethereum is down 44.2% on the week after plunging 11.8% today. A number of DeFi blue chips, including the native tokens for Aave, Uniswap, UMA, Curve, and Sushi, are also down over 50% in the last week. 

Bitcoin hit a record high of $64,804 in April, while Ethereum was trading above $4,300 on May 12. The rapid change in sentiment has led some to speculate on whether crypto has fallen into a bear market. 



The market has been hit by several major selloffs in the last few days. By far the biggest was on Wednesday when Bitcoin crashed over 30%, bringing the rest of the market down with it. The dip followed three self-regulatory organizations in China clarifying the country’s stance on cryptocurrencies. In a statement, they reiterated bans from 2013 and 2017 that blocked payment institutions from providing crypto services and Initial Coin Offering sales. The note read: 

“Virtual currency’s prices have soared and plummeted recently, resulting [in] a rebound of speculative trading activities of virtual currency. It has seriously damaged the safety of the people’s investment and damaged the normal economic and financial orders.”

The Wednesday crash was crypto’s biggest retrace since Mar. 2020 when the market tumbled in response to Coronavirus. Following the dip, the market trended down on the news that the U.S. Treasury wants businesses transferring over $10,000 worth of crypto to report their transactions to the IRS. If implemented, the ruling would take effect in 2023. China’s state council then hosted a meeting Friday, after which a statement was published vowing to crack down on mining. 



It’s not only regulators that have helped cast doubts across the market. Elon Musk helped Bitcoin’s price tank when he announced that Tesla would stop accepting Bitcoin payments. Posting on Twitter, Musk said he had concerns with the environmental impact of Bitcoin mining, sparking discussions over the sustainability of Proof-of-Work. On Wednesday, Pope Francis posted a message urging for the replacement of “technology based on the use of highly polluting fossil fuels,” possibly taking a shot at Bitcoin. Musk later clarified that Tesla had not sold any Bitcoin and that he supports crypto over fiat, though that hasn’t done much to drive prices up (Musk’s tweets have previously helped the price of Bitcoin and Dogecoin surge). 

Over $1 trillion has been wiped out of the market this month, though signs suggest that longer-term holders remain optimistic. Still, if the bull cycle does continue, new highs could be some way off. 

Disclosure: At the time of writing, the author of this feature owned ETH, ETH2X-FLI, AAVE, and CRV. They also had exposure to UNI and SUSHI in a cryptocurrency index. 

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DeFi Tokens Including Uniswap, Chainlink, Aave Crushed By Crypto Crash

When the crypto market went into freefall on Wednesday, centralized exchanges like Coinbase, Binance, Kraken, and Gemini suffered outages while DEXs (decentralized exchanges) like Uniswap and 1inch stayed up and running without a hitch. It’s not quite an apples-to-apples comparison, since DEXs typically have far smaller trading volume, but the resilience of DEXs reinforced their appeal as the go-to place for the most crypto-savvy traders to swap DeFi (decentralized finance) tokens directly with each other.

But by Sunday, the entire crypto market was falling so far that DeFi tokens couldn’t escape the damage.

Bitcoin[/link] (BTC) fell another 14% on Sunday to $32,000. Ethereum (ETH) fell 16% to around $1,900, and Binance Coin (BNB) fell 24% to about $235. 

Top DeFi tokens fared even worse. Uniswap (UNI) fell 25%, Chainlink (LINK) fell 24%, Aave (AAVE) fell 24%, and Maker (MKR) fell 19%. 

CAKE, the native token of PancakeSwap, the top DEX built on Binance Smart Chain (BSC), tanked 29%. (BUNNY, the native token of BSC DeFi protocol PancakeBunny, fell 45% on Sunday, but that came on the heels of a $45 million PancakeBunny attack earlier this week.)

The damage suggests that when a crypto crash is broad enough, no type of token is immune.

The weekend selloff continued a market slide that began 10 days ago, when Tesla CEO Elon Musk suddenly declared his car company would no longer accept Bitcoin as payment due to environmental concerns. In the days since, Musk has continued to blast Bitcoin for its environmental impact, and reconfirmed his ambition to make Dogecoin more sustainable. 

Some very bearish headlines out of China made things worse. First, Chinese payment associations reissued a public warning on crypto speculation. Then, only a few days later, a Chinese financial committee led by Vice Premier Liu He reinforced its crackdown on Bitcoin mining as a high-risk sector. 

Musk and China weren’t the only causes, either—Bitcoin’s reputation problem was further damaged when the Colonial Pipeline hackers made off with $90 million in a Bitcoin ransom.

Further reinforcing the criticisms of centralized exchanges by DEX flag-wavers, and perhaps a prelude to a more overt China crackdown, Huobi and OKEx restricted some services for users in China amid the crash.

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Bitcoin Suffers From Same Problem As Gold, Says Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman

Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman says that Bitcoin is suffering from the same problem as gold, which is that people think of it as money, but it isn’t used as such.

In an opinion piece published in the New York Times, Krugman caught the attention of the crypto industry with a lengthy criticism of Bitcoin and the crypto markets at large.

“One fact that gives even crypto skeptics like me pause is the durability of gold as a highly valued asset. Gold, after all, suffers from pretty much the same problems as Bitcoin. People may think of it as money, but it lacks any attributes of a useful currency: You can’t actually use it to make transactions – try buying a new car with gold ingots – and its purchasing power has been extremely unstable.”

The economist goes on to imply that governments could crack down on crypto much harder than they ever did with gold, and that “Bitcoin and its relatives haven’t managed to achieve any meaningful economic role.”

Prominent crypto leaders had a field day responding to Krugman on Twitter, including Three Arrows Capital CEO Zhu Su, who reminded the economist of a less-than-stellar prediction on the internet and a misinterpretation of Metcalfe’s law and network effects.

“Underestimate network effects at massive cost.

Anyone know if Krugman ever did an analysis of why & how he got it so wrong?”

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Network effects have also been cited as a bullish catalyst for crypto by macro guru Raoul Pal. He says that network effects are the primary driver of value behind the emerging asset class.

“It’s astonishing, the network effect. And we’re bringing in the institutions and they’re spreading into Ethereum, and everyone else is building products. It’s coming at us at lightning speed, and I don’t think the space can catch up with the narrative change that is happening so fast.”

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Eco-NFT Project CryptoTrunks Temporarily Shuts Down to Reduce Environmental Impact

In brief

  • CryptoTrunks lets users mint an NFT tree that shows their crypto wallet’s environmental impact.
  • After a sudden spike of popularity, coupled with Ethereum’s high gas fees, the project’s had to rethink its own environmental impact.

An NFT project that grows a pixelated tree in accordance with the carbon footprint of your crypto trading was paused just two days after launch. The developers, who resumed the project an hour later, cited its large environmental impact and Ethereum’s exorbitant gas fees.

“Tens of dollars for the network cost of some free art is cool, hundreds of dollars is bonkers. Better to pause and wait for things to cool off,” Will, the pseudonymous developer of CryptoTrunks, told Decrypt.

CryptoTrunks, a riff on CryptoPunks, refashions a trader’s transaction history into an illustration of the environmental damage caused by cryptocurrency mining. The larger the tree, the more a trader has warmed the planet. Starting Friday, users could grow one of 19,500 trees for free—all they had to do was pay Ethereum’s ever-changing gas fee.

While the crypto market turns to ashes, CryptoTrunks are spreading like wildfire; so far, users have minted 7,657 generative trees and a further 645 “genesis trees” (a collection of a further 1,500 trees designed by CryptoTrunk’s artist-in-residence, Reuben). So popular is CryptoTrunks, that one power-user is now the fifteenth-largest gas spender on Ethereum—just below cryptocurrency exchange BitMart.

However, CryptoTrunks run on the same gas-guzzling blockchain as all the other NFTs that eco-activists warn are terrible for the environment. Today, gas fees were so high that each tree produces about 250 kilograms in carbon emissions, according to carbon calculator Offsettra—the equivalent to an hour of flying as a passenger on a commercial airliner.

Reuben, who created the protocol along with Will (neither shared their surname), told Decrypt that the pair temporarily paused the project on Sunday evening to wait for gas fees to cool off. “Tongue-in-cheek as the project is, we are still very mindful of our carbon footprint,” Reuben said.

NFTs, as Will pointed out, have become “kind of a boogeyman” for environmentally-conscious NFT collectors, and the runaway success of another NFT project is unlikely to help. But what better way to lure traders to the confession booth than with a shiny new NFT?

Pausing the protocol also cuts costs. CryptoTrunks foots the bill for the server costs and for the calculations necessary to mint each tree—even the free ones. The pair paused the protocol when standard gas fees rose above 500 gwei, and resumed about an hour later when fees fell to 150 gwei.

The pair are working with Offsetra and Carbon.fyi to turn CryptoTrunks into a carbon-neutral or carbon-negative project. They plan to donate some of the proceeds from genesis trees to the Bull Run project, a reforestation program in Belize.

So far, CryptoTrunks has certainly spread its message, if all too well. “We’ve had a few people come out and say that our project is rallying Crypto Twitter together at its worst moment, which has been an incredible honor,” said Reuben.

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OCC Will Review Its Cryptocurrency-Related Guidance, Says the New Chief

Michael Hsu – the new chief of the OCC – revealed that the US independent bureau plans to put under review its crypto guidelines offered over the past year. He added that all federal banks should provide interpretive letters and guidance, including issues around digital assets alongside pending matters.

Is Stance Towards Crypto Getting Tougher?

The United States Office of the Comptroller of Currency, which regulates all national banks and federal savings associations, will analyze its crypto guidelines. The new chief of the watchdog, Michael J. Hsu, announced that the agency would put under inspection its propositions put out in 2020.

Nevertheless, the upcoming review does not necessarily predict a pessimistic future for the crypto community. As Hsu noted in his statement, the OCC has supported and updated the banking industry, so what follows now is some analysis on those previous operations:

”At the OCC, the focus has been on encouraging responsible innovation… we created an Office of Innovation, updated the framework for chartering national banks and trust companies, and interpreted crypto custody services as part of the business of banking. I have asked staff to review these actions.”

OCC’s move could also aim to provide better support for the industry while also offering protection, balances, and checks. Hsu opined that fintech services and platforms will be a part of the future economy, but they must oblige with the general regulations.

OCC And Its Crypto-Friendly Guidelines

In the recent past, the US Office of the Comptroller of Currency demonstrated its support towards the crypto community. As CryptoPotato reported at the beginning of 2021, the OCC greenlighted American banks to use stablecoins and public blockchains for payments.

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The regulator asserted that the move would increase the efficiency of the federal banking architecture while ensuring payment stability. The former comptroller of the watchdog Brian Brooks remarked at the time:

”Our letter removes any legal uncertainty about the authority of banks to connect to blockchains as validator nodes and thereby transact stablecoin payments on behalf of customers who are increasingly demanding the speed, efficiency, interoperability, and low cost associated with these products.”

Previously, the ex-chief of the bureau also stated that ”nobody is going to ban bitcoin.” Brooks noted that 2021 will be a very positive year for the digital assets in general:

”I think you are going to see a lot of good news for crypto.”

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Oil-Crypto Alliances Form in North America To Power Bitcoin Miners

Bitcoin miners in North America are teaming up with oil drillers to utilize excess natural gas and mine the leading crypto asset.

Reuters reports that Bitcoin miners are sending mobile mining rigs on trailers out to oil drilling sites in North Dakota to harness the excess energy produced and efficiently convert it into crypto.

Since oil and natural gas often come from the same wells, the gas is wasted in a process known as flaring when the drillers extract the oil.

Steve Degenfelder, the land manager at Wyoming-based producer Kirkwood Oil and Gass LLC explains how flaring gas is a negative byproduct of the oil-drilling process.

“‘The sweet spot for us is stranded, low volumes of gas that don’t justify a pipeline… Oil and gas companies don’t like to flare their gas – that’s money that’s burning away.”

However, Bitcoin miners are finding a way to benefit from this process and save the otherwise wasted energy.

The alliance between crypto miners and American oil companies could potentially take BTC out of the hands of miners in China who primarily use non-renewable energy sources, says Mark Le Dain, vice president of oil and gas data intelligence firm Validere Technologies.

“It helps cut emissions at (an oil) producer level, but also globally by reducing mining in parts of the world where coal is likely the power source.”

The oil-crypto alliance forms amid the marketwide crash in digital assets. The harsh correction follows comments from Tesla CEO Elon Musk criticizing Bitcoin’s energy consumption. Additionally, Shark Tank veteran and billionaire investor Kevin O’Leary has made repeated assertions that institutional investors in his network have expressed concerns over the environmental origins of their crypto assets.

“I have certainly shifted my holdings. I don’t own random ETFs with blood coin in them. I know the providence of where my wallet coins are mined now…

The industry has done a poor job in lobbying its case around sustainability. I spend a lot of time talking to CEOs of miners and various entities that want me to invest in their mining operations. Collectively, they’ve done a horrible job.”

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Michael Saylor Says Mounting Global Scrutiny of Bitcoin a ‘Non-Issue’ – Here’s Why

Bitcoin firebrand and MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor says that recent criticisms against Bitcoin, including increased government scrutiny and intense volatility, are non-issues.

In a new interview with CNBC, Saylor addresses concerns that governments and agencies such as the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury Department are closely looking at BTC as the leading crypto asset adds millions of people into its network every week.

“I think they’re non-issues because when you have an inflationary environment, money decomposes. The currency, which is the medium of exchange, and then the store of value, which is the asset, Bitcoin is an asset. It is regulated as an asset, taxed as an asset, [and] regulated as an asset. The governments said nothing anywhere in the world. In China, in Iran, in the US, people are holding this as an asset.

I think that the banks, their view is they don’t want you to challenge a currency like the US dollar and they want you to pay taxes when you transfer your assets. So for the Treasury Department to say, ‘If you transfer more than $10,000 of Bitcoin and oh, by the way, you’ve got to pay taxes when you transfer or sell it.’ That’s a totally non event because that’s been the status quo with every asset in the country forever. 

This is just legitimizing Bitcoin as the apex asset, the best one. And I think it’s good for the industry.”

The big Bitcoin bull also talks about the intense volatility of the leading crypto asset after BTC’s drop from around $43,000 to $30,000 earlier this week.

“I think the big picture, if you look at the last 12 months is March 12th of 2020, we had $2 billion of trading on Binance and the price was around $5,000. On August 10th, when my company entered the entire Bitcoin market, we had a billion dollars of trading on Binance and the price is around $11,000. May 18th, biggest day maybe ever for Bitcoin, we had $13 billion traded with price around $37,000.

I think what those stats tell you is that Bitcoin is coming to life. It’s an institutional-grade, safe-haven asset. Although there’s volatility, the volatility is the price you pay for it to be 10x outperforming the S&P Index over a decade and be outperforming the S&P and Nasdaq by a factor of eight in the last 12 months.” 

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$1.2 Billion Liquidated As Bitcoin Sees 15% Price Collapse In 24 Hours

Bitcoin chopped downwards today towards $31K, looking to retest local lows made earlier in the week just around the $30K mark, according to Bitstamp.

According to data from Bybt, over the past 12 hours the crypto markets saw liquidations of over $1.2 Billion in trader positions. As of writing these lines, BTC price is decreasing 15% over the past 24 hours, whereas major altcoins were hit even harder, with ETH down 21% to a current daily low of $1730, XRP down 24% to $0.65 – daily low, and LTC down 28% to a daily low of $120, in the same timeframe.

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So far today, the total cryptocurrency market capitalization dropped from $1.6 Trillion to $1.23T – a staggering loss of over $400 Billion in total value.

  • Traders across CT flip bearish as sentiment takes a plunge. The cryptocurrency fear & greed index reaches new lows as people panic sell, aiding the market’s overall downwards trajectory. #cryptocurrency becomes one of the top trending tags on Twitter in several countries.
  • BTC stands notably stronger as alts take a severe hammering. Small-cap altcoins took a worse beating: several are down over 90% today, which makes the large-cap alts’ 30% daily loss seem benign.
  • News about China’s potential Bitcoin ban and its implications has gripped the Internet, as speculation about miners selling off their BTC stash flies rampant.
  • These turbulent times have caused even ‘safe’ assets to be doubted in the cryptocurrency ecosystem: USDT, a Terra-backed stablecoin, broke its peg, temporarily diving down to $0.95.
  • As Bitcoin dives to retest the $30K mark, there has been a noticeable increase in net long positions on futures exchanges, primarily BitMEX and Binance.

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Bitcoin (BTC) $ 43,355.62 1.28%
Ethereum (ETH) $ 2,368.14 5.07%
Litecoin (LTC) $ 74.10 1.20%
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) $ 246.32 0.42%