Damanick Dantes

Damanick was a crypto market analyst at CoinDesk where he wrote the daily Market Wrap and provided technical analysis. He is a Chartered Market Technician designation holder and member of the CMT Association. Damanick is also a portfolio strategist and does not invest in digital assets.

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First Mover Asia: Bitcoin’s Price Remains Boxed In Below $51K Over Holiday Weekend

Trading was light across different crypto exchanges on Christmas day and Boxing Day in the U.K.; ether’s price was roughly flat.

(Justin Chin/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Pioneiro na Ásia: o preço do Bitcoin permanece abaixo de US$ 51 mil no fim de semana de férias

As negociações foram leves em diferentes bolsas de Cripto no dia de Natal e no Boxing Day no Reino Unido; o preço do éter estava praticamente estável.

(Justin Chin/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Premier arrivé en Asie : le prix du Bitcoin reste inférieur à 51 000 $ pendant le week-end de vacances

Les échanges ont été légers sur différents échanges Crypto le jour de Noël et le lendemain de Noël au Royaume-Uni ; le prix de l'éther était à peu près stable.

(Justin Chin/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Market Wrap Year In Review: Remembering Bitcoin’s FUD-Fueled Crash

As crypto markets moved through April and May, many buyers began to cash out as fear, uncertainty and doubt (”FUD”) overwhelmed traders. Concerns included U.S. capital gains taxes on digital assets, bitcoin’s environmental footprint and an outright ban on crypto mining in China.

(Faberge Workshop/Art Institute of Chicago, modified by CoinDesk)

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Market Wrap Year-End Review: Bitcoin Peaks as Coinbase Goes Public

Tesla’s bitcoin acceptance helped to send the BTC price to an all-time high near $65,000 in April, almost unthinkable just a few months earlier. Coinbase’s direct stock listing marked the exact date of the market top.

The peak of the bitcoin market in April 2021 perfectly coincided with the elevated hype surrounding the Coinbase direct stock listing. (William Henry Jackson/Art Institute of Chicago, modified by CoinDesk)

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Market Wrap Year-End Review: Musk Pumps Bitcoin and Dogecoin

Dogecoin pumped along with bitcoin thanks to some high profile tweets.

Image posted on Feb. 4, 2021, by Elon Musk's Twitter account. (@elonmusk/Twitter, modified by CoinDesk)

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Market Wrap Year-End Review: Bitcoin Starts Off in a Frenzy

In this first episode of Market Wrap’s review of crypto markets in 2021, we recall the powerful rally that ushered in the new year. Retail traders piled in, even as some institutional investors sounded warnings about rampant speculation.

Chicago Board of Trade traders, 1949 (Stanley Kubrick via Wikimedia Commons)

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First Mover Asia: Bitcoin, Ether Have a Quiet Weekend

The two largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization were roughly flat amid light trading; terra approached an all-time high, while avalanche dropped.

Ducks and geese floating in tranquillity (Photo by �� Steve Terrill/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Bitcoin Limited to $50K-$55K Resistance as Momentum Slows

Short-term buying could be limited given negative momentum on the weekly chart.

Bitcoin weekly price chart (Damanick Dantes/CoinDesk, TradingView)

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Market Wrap: Bitcoin Options Lean Bearish as Some Altcoins Outperform

BTC is slightly lower over the past week compared with a 5% rise in Solana’s SOL token and a 38% rise in Avalanche’s AVAX.

brown bear (Fabe collage, Unsplash)