Omkar Godbole

Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor on CoinDesk's Markets team based in Mumbai, holds a masters degree in Finance and a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) member. Omkar previously worked at FXStreet, writing research on currency markets and as fundamental analyst at currency and commodities desk at Mumbai-based brokerage houses. Omkar holds small amounts of bitcoin, ether, BitTorrent, tron and dot.

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Cardano's ADA Token Leads Crypto Majors Lower, Bitcoin Nears $41K as Bond Yields Rise

Bitcoin appears to have led Nasdaq and other risk assets in pricing Fed jitters.

Cardano's ADA token drops 10% (Tradingview)

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Opyn’s New ‘Squeeth’ Raises Ether Trading to the Power of Two

In yet another example of the crypto industry's tendency to combine innovation with leverage, the new "Squeeth" index (for squared-ether) turns the options trade into a perpetual contract and can be used as a hedge.

Financialization means big directional bets and lots of leverage, propped up by a hype campaign. In crypto, those bets are often followed by a hard landing. (Creative Commons)

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Bitcoin May Soon Wake From Slumber, Derivatives Data Indicates

Futures markets remain a powder keg for short-term volatility, one observer said.

Bitcoin traders may get busy again, as high futures open interest points to renewed price volatility (Source: Pixabay)

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Binance Destroys 1.6M BNB Tokens in First-Ever Auto Burn

Token burns are supposedly deflationary and usually meant to bring a store of value appeal to the cryptocurrency.

(Pixabay)

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Technical Indicator Points to Bitcoin Price Bounce

The impending bearish moving-average crossover on the weekly chart has proven to be a contrary indicator in the past.

Bitcoin's price chart showing an impending bear cross between the 10- and 50-week moving averages. (TradingView)

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Case for Bitcoin Bottom Near $40K Is Weak as Institutions Stay Away

One observer said traders may be better off trading bitcoin volatility than taking directional bets.

Gráfico que muestra el descenso de bitcoin en poder de fondos estadounidenses y canadienses, y de ETFs y ETPs canadienses y europeos. (ByteTree)

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Bitcoin's Options Market Trims Bearish Bias as US Inflation Report Looms

Bitcoin's put-call skews recede, signaling waning demand for downside protection.

Bitcoin's put-call skews recede as demand for downside protection wanes. (Skew)

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Blockchain Indicator Suggests Bitcoin Could Be Close to Bottoming Out

Bitcoin looks undervalued relative to the annualized dollar value of coin dormancy.

Bitcoin's entity-adjusted dormancy flow drops under $250,000, indicating a price bottom ahead (Glassnode)

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Bitcoin’s Near 40% Slide Weighs on Crypto Stocks While Coinbase Outperforms

Some institutions use crypto equities as a proxy for cryptocurrencies, one value investor said.

Crypto stocks tank along with bitcoin (CoinDesk, TradingView)

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Bitcoin Dips Below $40K as ‘Death Cross’ Looms on Price Charts

The past record of the “Death Cross” as an indicator of deeper drawdowns is mixed.

Bitcoin's previous death cross was a bear trap (TradingView)