Bitcoin Dominance Hits 3.5-Year High as Altcoins Get Left Behind

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Summary:

Bitcoin’s market share neared 60%, hitting its highest level since April 2021, while altcoins were muted in the last 24 hours.

Bitcoin’s market share reached its highest level since April 2021 as the cryptocurrency’s price continued to climb amid a muted altcoin market.

Bitcoin’s dominance hit a three-and-a-half-year high of 58.77% during late trading on Oct. 15, the same time it hit a 10-week high of $67,800, according to TradingView.

Bitcoin BTC retraced sharply to $64,880 before climbing back to trade just above $67,000 with a market capitalization of $1.32 trillion. Bitcoin Dominance Hits 3.5-Year High as Altcoins Get Left Behind_1

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Bitcoin’s market cap dominance showing its share of the crypto market.

Bitcoin’s increases in dominance have historically been bad news for altcoins, and BTC gained 2.5% on the day while altcoins traded mostly flat or dropped.

Still, some traders think Bitcoin’s dominance will be short-lived and will soon crash, which they claim will open the market for altcoins to rise.

In an Oct. 16 X post, ICT Crypto founder Benjamin Cowen predicted that Bitcoin’s dominance would top out at 60%, while crypto investor Coach K Crypto claimed Bitcoin’s dominance had peaked for this cycle, telling his 129,000 X followers that Bitcoin “needs to rip” before anything else can happen.

“Soon enough, there’s going to be a breakdown in [Bitcoin dominance],” they said. “This will lead to memecoins and other major altcoins getting a taste.”

Analyst Moataz Elsayed said on Oct. 14 that Bitcoin’s dominance “is about to crash hard” and predicted the start of altcoin season.

Ether ETH is historically one of the first assets to move when Bitcoin’s dominance declines, but the Ether to Bitcoin ratio, a conversion rate of BTC to ETH, is close to its lowest level since April 2021, falling below 0.039 again this week, according to TradingView. Bitcoin Dominance Hits 3.5-Year High as Altcoins Get Left Behind_2

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ETH’s price in terms of BTC has fallen to the lowest level in three-and-a-half years.

Since hitting a fresh all-time high of $73,738 in March, Bitcoin has been trading mostly sideways.

But it’s now approaching a key psychological level — its 2021 high of $69,000, which it held for about three years.

Institutional investors are still keen on BTC with the 11 US spot exchange-traded funds seeing net inflows of $371 million for Oct. 15. The products have seen more than $1.1 billion in aggregate inflows over the past three trading days, according to Farside Investors.

Source: Cointelegraph

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