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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Markets

BTC Surges to $37K After Elon Musk Adds 'Bitcoin' to Twitter Bio

Is Musk just teasing the crypto community again?

Tesla CEO Elon Musk

Markets

First Mover: Risks Nobody's Ever Seen, From the Fed to Tether (and GameStop)

Risks surrounding tether have been known for years, but they're commanding fresh attention as the amount outstanding swells to $25B.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell

Markets

Bitcoin Briefly Dips Below $30K, Dollar Bounces Ahead of Fed Reserve Rate Announcement

Bitcoin would likely extend losses further if Fed Chairman Jerome Powell drops hints of a gradual unwinding of stimulus programs later today.

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell

Markets

First Mover: The Smart Money (Literally) Buying Crypto as Harvard Said to Be Holding

The brain trust has blessed cryptocurrencies, with endowments for Harvard and other universities reportedly lapping up digital assets. For bitcoin marketeers, it's a new $600B money pot.

Harvard University's Widener Library

Markets

Large Bitcoin Options Positions May Boost Price Volatility This Week

As long as these options remain open in the market, the next couple of days could be volatile for bitcoin.

Rough waters ahead? Options may lead to heavy volatility in coming days.

Markets

First Mover: Bitcoin Flushes 'Weak Hands' as Ethereum Hits New All-Time High

Last week's rout in bitcoin market looks like "weak hands" selling out because bidders appeared to materialize whenever prices fell to $30K.

"The Amateur," by Attilio Simonetti.

Markets

Big Investors Stacked Up Ether as Price Rose to Record High

The increased accumulation by investors with deep pockets may have put upward pressure on ether's price.

Ether prices over the last week.

Markets

First Mover: Bitcoin ‘Double-Spend’ FUD Gives Newbies a Volatility Lesson

A mixture of bearish price-chart patterns and ill-understood news items combined to cause bitcoin's biggest price plunge since March, in a demonstration to market newcomers of the cryptocurrency's notorious volatility.    

Fear, uncertainty and doubt are hitting the bitcoin market.

Finance

Tether's Bank Deltec Says Stablecoin Is Fully Backed by Reserves

"Every tether is backed by a reserve and their reserve is more than what is in circulation," said Gregory Pepin, Deltec Bank's deputy CEO.

Tether dice

Markets

Bitcoin Faces Further Losses Before Rally Restarts, Say Analysts

Despite a bounce earlier on Friday, bitcoin may yet see further losses in the near term.

Bitcoin prices for the last 24 hours.