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Bitcoin Price Hits Nearly $65K on the Day Coinbase Shares Start Trading on Nasdaq | Cryptoglobe

source-logo  cryptoglobe.com 14 April 2021 04:22, UTC

Data from TradingView indicates that at 06:14 UTC on Wednesday (April 14), the Bitcoin ($BTC) price hit $64,895 on crypto exchange Bitstamp, thereby setting a new all-time high.

One-Day BTC-USD Chart (Bitstamp) by TradingView

According to Bybt, Bitcoin futures open interest across major exchanges reached a record $27.75 billion at 07:01 UTC.

Exchange BTC Futures Open Interest Data (via Bybt)

And here is the breakdown:

Breakdown of BTC Futures Open Interest (via Bybt)

As of 07:10 UTC on April 14, funding rates for BTC perpetual swaps are positive. On Binance, the funding rate is 0.1164% and on OKEx it is 0.-44%.

Here is how Bybt says we should interpret these numbers:

Positive funding rates suggests speculators are bullish and long traders pay funding to short traders. Negative funding rates suggests speculators are bearish and short traders pay funding to long traders.

Funding Rates for BTC Perpetual Swaps (via Bybt)

 As you probably know, later today (at 09:30 ET or 13:30 UTC), Coinbase’s Class A common stock starts trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “COIN”. The excitement surrounding Coinbase’s Nasdaq debut has got everyone even more excited about crypto than they were before.

As crypto analyst and trader Michaël van de Poppe found a good way earlier today to describe how the crypto markets have been affected by Coinbase’s direct listing:

It's not altseason.

It's everything up season.

No excuses.

— Michaël van de Poppe (@CryptoMichNL) April 14, 2021

Among the top 10 cryptoassets by market cap, Ethereum ($ETH) and Dogecoin ($DOGE) also set new all-time highs today by reaching $2,384 and $0.133 respectively.

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