Bitcoin in Range After Tether Panic

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Despite some drama during the week, bitcoin is still stuck in a range. We are quoted at $6,545 right now, only marginally lower compared to last week’s price of  $6,633 dollars.

Bitcoin Still in Range

The price of bitcoin is still in a range on the daily chart. Compared to last week we’re down by only $88 dollars or 1.3 percent. Naturally this wasn’t enough to trigger a change in trend.

Bitcoin in Range After Tether Panic

On FXOpen there was a sharp short-lived spike above $7,000, reaching a high of $7,335 dollars at one point. This was due to a mini bank-run on Bitfinex. As the price of Tether plummeted to 85 cents on the dollar, panicked traders bought bitcoin to get their money out of Bitfinex as soon as possible. The exchange recently lost another banking partner and users are reporting delayed or rejected fiat withdrawals.

Bitfinex and Tether Relationship

The troubled company has been having problems maintaining stable banking relationships, leading to frequent fiat withdrawal issues over the past two years. Some of the owners of Bitfinex have ownership in Tether as well. Knowledgeable crypto users claim that Bitfinex basically owns Tether. Fiat currency and Tether are interchangeable on Bitfinex, in other words any Tether deposited at the exchange can be withdrawn to a bank account as USD.

Naturally this leads to a close price relationship between the two, the bitcoin price on Bitfinex tends to be around the real market price of bitcoin / the price of tether. For example right now at Bitstamp one bitcoin is selling for $6,371 dollars while on Coinbase it’s quoted at $6,375 dollars. This makes the average price around $6,373 for exchanges not having withdrawal issues. We now divide that by $0.9653 which is the price of Tether on the most liquid USDT/USD pair at Kraken. We get a price of $6,602 dollars, very close to the current price at Bitfinex of $6,582 dollars.

On Tuesday the site announced a new ‘innovative’ solution to its banking problems but this failed to calm markets, as we can see Tether is still ‘untethered’ from $1 dollar.

Technical Picture Unchanged

Back to the technicals. Here the picture is unchanged. We can ignore the price spike above 7k because it was in response to the bank run at Bitfinex. During times of turmoil you should always look at where other large bitcoin exchanges are trading, especially Bitstamp and Coinbase, which seem to have been the most stable during the past few years in terms of fiat withdrawals and general liquidity.

On these two exchanges the spike stopped at $6,756 and $6,810 dollars. This is below the $6,825 price point we noted last week as a potential rally starter. On the downside we’re looking at the double bottom of $6,116 dollars. A decisive breakdown below here could start a new downtrend on the daily charts. On the long-term charts the situation is unchanged, Bitcoin is slightly bearish on the weeklies and slightly bullish on the monthlies.

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