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13 Aug 2025, 08:03
Samson Mow’s Bullish Outlook on Bitcoin Amid Recent Market Fluctuations
Bitcoin is a decentralized cryptocurrency with a capped supply of 21 million coins. Samson Mow believes it will inevitably reach $1 million per coin, as all assets trend towards zero
13 Aug 2025, 08:03
Bitcoin Traders Beware: Record BTC Futures Leverage Sets Stage for Wild Price Swings
Bitcoin’s derivatives market is flashing its loudest warning signal in five years as traders pile into highly leveraged positions. According to analyst Axel Adler Jr., August’s 30-day change in the Estimated Leverage Ratio (ELR) went above +0.4 for the first time since 2020, a level that has historically come before periods of volatile price moves and sudden liquidations. Elevated Risk as Market Awaits Macro Catalyst The ELR spike comes with BTC hovering near record territory towards $120,000, setting the stage for potentially more violent swings should the market tip in either direction. “This indicates a rapid and large-scale influx of leveraged positions in futures while the price remains near historical highs,” Adler posted on X, warning that such positioning often leaves the market vulnerable to “sharp liquidations.” Bitcoin started the week on strong footing, briefly touching $122,000 on August 11 before reversing below $118,500 later that day. The price has since retraced its steps near the all-time-high level, trading at $119,169 at press time, up 0.4% in the last 24 hours. Over the past week, the OG crypto has climbed 4.4%, while its monthly gain sits at 2.6%. It is roughly 3.1% off its all-time high above $123,000 set on July 14. Technically, BTC is consolidating within an ascending triangle, with the Ichimoku Cloud offering near-term support, according to chart analysis from The Crypto Express. However, traders are eyeing the horizontal supply zone above as a hurdle; a confirmed breakout or breakdown could dictate the next major move. Altcoin Strength Erodes Bitcoin’s Market Share While Bitcoin’s price has held relatively steady, its dominance is currently at 57.5% per CoinGecko, up slightly after slipping to 55% earlier, the lowest since January, following Ethereum’s 8% pump on August 13 to $4,670, just shy of its own ATH. Analysts say the slide in the number one cryptocurrency’s market share is a hint of an early-stage altcoin season, especially if the trend deepens toward 50%. For now, market sentiment is mixed, with CoinMarketCap’s altseason index at 37 out of 100, while Blockchain Center’s gauge shows a more aggressive 53 reading. The convergence of historically high futures leverage, technical compression, and shifting capital flows toward altcoins leaves Bitcoin’s short-term outlook finely balanced. If history is any guide, the coming days could deliver either a decisive breakout or a painful shakeout for overleveraged traders. The post Bitcoin Traders Beware: Record BTC Futures Leverage Sets Stage for Wild Price Swings appeared first on CryptoPotato .
13 Aug 2025, 08:03
Whale holding $5.6B in ETH is selling, dumps $88M in 15 hours
Ethereum whale group “7 Siblings” sold $88.2 million in ETH within 15 hours as short-term traders locked in profits.
13 Aug 2025, 08:02
Spot Ethereum ETFs Attract Massive Investments, Shifting Market Sentiments
Spot Ethereum ETFs in the US saw a $523.9 million inflow on Tuesday. A six-day positive streak has brought total inflows to $2.33 billion. Continue Reading: Spot Ethereum ETFs Attract Massive Investments, Shifting Market Sentiments The post Spot Ethereum ETFs Attract Massive Investments, Shifting Market Sentiments appeared first on COINTURK NEWS .
13 Aug 2025, 08:00
Ethereum Bet Deepens: Billionaire Peter Thiel Takes 7.5% Of ETHZilla
Peter Thiel is doubling down on the emerging “corporate Ethereum treasury” trade. A fresh Schedule 13G filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission shows entities affiliated with Thiel’s Founders Fund have amassed a 7.5% passive stake in 180 Life Sciences Corp. (Nasdaq: ATNF), which is rebranding as ETHZilla and pivoting its business to accumulating Ether and generating on-chain yield. Peter Thiel Doubles Down On Ethereum The disclosure, signed “/s/ Peter Thiel” on August 11, confirms beneficial ownership across multiple Founders Fund vehicles totaling roughly 11.6 million ATNF shares—7.5% of the float. The market reaction was immediate. ATNF shares more than tripled on Tuesday, closing near $10.24—about 207% above Monday’s close—before cooling in after-hours trading. ETHZilla’s pivot is not theoretical. In a press release furnished to the SEC on August 12, the company disclosed “total holdings of 82,186 Ether (‘ETH’) at an average acquisition price of $3,806.71,” valuing the position at approximately $349 million as of August 11. It also reported about $238 million in US dollar cash equivalents on the balance sheet. Executive chairman McAndrew Rudisill framed the strategy as a purpose-built, institutional ETH reserve that will be actively deployed into staking and on-chain yield strategies run by an external manager: “At ETHZilla we have put over $350 million in capital to work since the PIPE transaction we completed last week… as we seek to deliver on our on-chain yield generation program through our external asset manager Electric Capital.” Those disclosures cap a rapid financing sequence backing the accumulation plan. On August 4, ETHZilla closed a $425 million private placement, followed one week later by approximately $156 million of senior secured convertible notes due 2028. Each financing explicitly cited the goal of “rapidly” increasing the company’s ETH holdings. Thiel’s move into ETHZilla arrives less than a month after his group revealed a 9.1% passive stake in BitMine Immersion Technologies (NYSE American: BMNR), the most aggressive of the public “ETH treasury” cohort. That earlier 13G similarly listed Thiel as signatory and helped ignite a rally in BMNR. Notably, The BitMine drumbeat grew louder again this week. On Tuesday, the company filed to enlarge its at-the-market equity program by another $20 billion—lifting total capacity to $24.5 billion—to finance additional ETH accumulation. The expansion was memorialized in a same-day Form 8-K and prospectus supplement. Tom Lee , co-founder of Fundstrat and Chairman of the Board of Directors at BitMine, is pursuing one of the largest Ethereum accumulation strategies in history through his company. BitMine has already amassed about 1.2 million ETH—roughly $5 billion worth—putting it 20% of the way toward its target of controlling 5% of Ethereum’s total supply. Taken together, the signal from Thiel is unambiguous. After the 9.1% BitMine disclosure in mid-July, the 7.5% ETHZilla stake marks his second material bet on an Ethereum-first corporate treasury in less than a month, displaying the kind of high-conviction wager that ETH’s appreciation will outpace dilution, financing costs, and mark-to-market volatility—justifying aggressive balance-sheet accumulation now for outsized upside later. At press time, ETH traded at $4,655.
13 Aug 2025, 08:00
Ether May Climb Above $8,500 On A $150,000 Bitcoin Move: Trader
A math-based scenario is getting attention in markets this week. According to experts, Ether’s market value has historically moved to about 30–35% of Bitcoin’s market cap during major bull runs. Related Reading: Ethereum Faith Fading? Samson Mow Says Holders Will Shift To Bitcoin If Bitcoin climbs to $150,000 from its current price of $119,250, that ratio would put Ether near $8,656 at the top end of the model. At the time of writing, Ether was up 8% in a 24-hour price move, hitting $4,630 for new weekly high. Bitcoin was up a percent, and slowly closing in the key $120,000 region, data from Coingecko shows, According to an analysis by trader Yashasedu a lower range of ratios — between close to 22% and 30% — would put Ether between $5,370 and $7,400 if Bitcoin does reach $150,000. Market Cap Math And The Upside Case According to the trader’s logic, the calculation is simple: pick a BTC price, multiply by BTC supply for market cap, then apply a chosen ETH/BTC market-cap ratio and divide by ETH supply to get an ETH price. In major bull runs, $ETH typically hits 30-35% of Bitcoin’s mcap. 2017: ~35% 2021: ~36% We’re seeing similar setup now👇 > TVL on @ethereum crossed $90B after 2022 > Institutions buy billions of dollars worth of $ETH > Billions of dollars of ETF inflow > Stocks transitioning… pic.twitter.com/xuaCOAfw9P — YashasEdu (@YashasEdu) August 10, 2025 Yashasedu notes that in 2021 Ether climbed to about 36% of Bitcoin’s market cap, which is why the 30–35% range is getting cited now. Reports have disclosed that institutional flows and growing ETF demand for Ether are part of the reason some traders expect the pattern to repeat. Flows, Treasury Buys, And TVL Based on reports, spot Ether ETFs recorded a single-day inflow of $1 billion recently — the biggest day so far — and TVL on Ethereum has topped $90 billion, figures that supporters point to as proof demand is rising. Several well-known market voices have put out higher Bitcoin targets that feed into these scenarios. Tom Lee, Arthur Hayes, and Joe Burnett have forecasted Bitcoin could reach as high as $250,000 by the end of 2025. MN Trading Capital founder Michaël van de Poppe has said that we’ll likely see a new ATH for ETH and then some consolidation. Those calls are opinions, and traders use them to build scenarios rather than certainties. Related Reading: Quantum Computers No Match For Bitcoin’s Math, Google Expert Says Short-Term Signals And Technical Forecasts Meanwhile, technical indicators show current sentiment as Bullish, and the Fear & Greed Index sits at 73 (Greed). According to one price prediction, Ethereum is expected to rise about 10% to reach $5,125 by September 12, 2025. Ether recorded 20 out of 30 green days recently, a 67% run of positive days, and about 8.33% price volatility over the last 30 days. These numbers feed both the bullish story and the case for caution. Featured image from Meta, chart from TradingView
