Bitcoin jumps 20 percent, mystery order seen as catalyst
Bitcoin soared to its highest in almost five months on Tuesday, pulling smaller cryptocurrencies up with it, after a major order by an anonymous buyer set off a frenzy of computer-driven trading, analysts said.
The original cryptocurrency soared as much as 20 percent in Asian trading, breaking $5,000 for the first time since mid-November. By mid-afternoon, it had settled around $4,800, still up 16 percent in its biggest one-day gain since April last year.
[...] Today's gain was probably triggered by an order worth about $100 million spread across U.S.-based exchanges Coinbase and Kraken and Luxembourg's Bitstamp, said Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie, chief executive of cryptocurrency firm BCB Group.
"There has been a single order that has been algorithmically-managed across these three venues, of around 20,000 BTC," he said. "If you look at the volumes on each of those three exchanges – there were in-concert, synchronized, units of volume of around 7,000 BTC in an hour".
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by sjames on Wednesday April 03 2019, @05:20AM (1 child)
If you want to visualize either the stock market of coin markets, picture a large room full of chickens. Periodically someone throws a kernel of corn or a pebble in through the window. They poop all over the floor.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday April 03 2019, @09:47PM
Too orderly of a metaphor. :) :)
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