Bitcoin hits $28,000 after BlackRock files for BTC ETF
On this week’s episode of The Market Report, Cointelegraph looks at the probable causes of recent Bitcoin price action, and its market dominance reaching 50% of the total crypto market cap. In the latest episode of The Market Report, Cointelegraph analyst and writer Marcel Pechman explains what’s behind Bitcoin (BTC) reaching 50% crypto market dominance for the first time in two years amid Blackrock’s spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) filing, and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s crackdown on altcoins. According to Pechman, it must be admitted that no one expected Bitcoin to become the second-largest nonfungible token blockchain. Analysis from CryptoSlam shows that the 30-day adjusted data — excluding wash trades — was $380 million for Ether (ETH), versus $104 million on Bitcoin and $40 million on Solana (SOL). Therefore, Michael Saylor’s call for 80% market dominance depends on decentralized finance moving to the Bitcoin network. While it might sound impossible ...