Ethereum Surges As Bitcoin Tops $28K and Crashes Bitcoin has been stealing the spotlight in recent weeks as it has soared to record-er and record-er heights, but overnight saw a 'regime-shift' as Bitcoin topped $28,500... Source: Bloomberg ...before crashing over $2,000 lower, only to be bought back... Source: Bloomberg Bitcoin's surge had pushed it above its stock-to-flow model estimate... Source Some still have even bigger plans... https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bitcoin?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); tenX from here by end of 2022 or early 2023. — Tim Draper (@TimDraper) https://twitter.com/TimDraper/status/1342880075054661632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); While Ethereum surge to a fresh cycle high... Source: Bloomberg Its highest since May 2018... Source: Bloomberg This was a very notable reversal in the recent trend of Bitcoin outperformance... Source: Bloomberg As Ethereum seemed to find support again at 0.025 Bitcoins... Source: Bloomberg Bitcoin's surge in price pushed it above the $500 billion market cap level for the first time... Source: CoinMarketCap With institutional investors taking a break, talk turned to retail buyers fuelling the latest phase of the Bitcoin bull run. “The bull cycle of bull cycles has started, as more and more players are starting to adopt towards Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies,” Cointelegraph Markets analyst Michaël van de Poppe summarized to https://twitter.com/CryptoMichNL/status/1343157398219980800!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");. Finally, this looks set to be the biggest gap open in Bitcoin futures markets ever as spot prices have surged an incredible $4000 since Bitcoin Futures closed on Thursday... Source: Bloomberg $2.3 billion worth of Bitcoin futures expired on Christmas day, which historically has led to choppy markets, but we suspect some serious margin calls are still on their way. With the end of the year looming, some fund managers may also be buying BTC so they can https://twitter.com/MikeBucella/status/1342885046341021697?s=20!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); next year about being smart enough to get in in 2020 while neglecting to say at which price they had done so. Tyler Durden Sun, 12/27/2020 - 10:50