Carnage – Earlybirds Invest https://earlybirdsinvest.com Latest Crypto News Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:03:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.7 https://i0.wp.com/earlybirdsinvest.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/cropped-New-Project-2024-12-17T235703.455.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Carnage – Earlybirds Invest https://earlybirdsinvest.com 32 32 240146708 Crypto Carnage continues even as gold surges with soft US employment data https://earlybirdsinvest.com/crypto-carnage-continues-even-as-gold-surges-with-soft-us-employment-data/ https://earlybirdsinvest.com/crypto-carnage-continues-even-as-gold-surges-with-soft-us-employment-data/#respond Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:03:09 +0000 https://earlybirdsinvest.com/crypto-carnage-continues-even-as-gold-surges-with-soft-us-employment-data/

Released on Friday morning Soft US July employment numbers will be printed in combination with shocking June-June revised editions, as employment growth is the weakest since Covid Shutdowns in 2020.

The data appears likely to end Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s on-the-scene approach and set the central bank on the path to reopening rate cuts at the next meeting in September.

This brought 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds to 14 basis points 4.22%, pumping gold prices from 1.5% to $3,400 per ounce, sending them within their record highs.

Two other interest-sensitive assets: Bitcoin and stocks? Not that much. With about 90 minutes in the US trading session, both are low sessions, with Nasdaq falling 2.5% and Bitcoin falling more than 3% to $113,800.

Bitcoin is an outperformer. ether (eth)Solana

BNB (BNB)and Dogecoin all have dropped by around 6%. Especially the unique retention is XRP (XPR)only 2.9%.

The president weighs

“Jerome ‘too late’ Powell is a disaster,” Trump said of the true society right after the Jobs Report. “Drop the rate.”

A few minutes ago, the president took him to his social media platform again and asked for the fire of the Labor Statistics Commission, Dr. Erica Mantelfer (Group that oversees job data)backed Biden/Harris last year, accusing him of cooking books to make things worse under his administration.

Stock check

Don’t ask about crypto-related stocks. Coinbase (coin) On Thursday evening, it fell nearly 18%, combined with the risk-off mood of the day that combined Punk’s revenue report. Tradfi-related peer robin hood (Food) It’s only 3.1% lower.

Also, last night’s report was on the Bitcoin Miner’s Riot Platform. (Riol) And it’s falling 17%. Piamara Holdings (Mara) It’s down by 3%.

High flight Stablecoin Issuer Circle (CRCL) Like the Bitcoin Treasury Leader Strategy, 7.5% off (MSTR).

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Chart of the Week: Tariff Carnage Starting to Fulfill Bitcoin's 'Store of Value' Promise https://earlybirdsinvest.com/chart-of-the-week-tariff-carnage-starting-to-fulfill-bitcoins-store-of-value-promise/ https://earlybirdsinvest.com/chart-of-the-week-tariff-carnage-starting-to-fulfill-bitcoins-store-of-value-promise/#respond Sun, 27 Apr 2025 15:51:36 +0000 https://earlybirdsinvest.com/chart-of-the-week-tariff-carnage-starting-to-fulfill-bitcoins-store-of-value-promise/

April has been a month of extreme volatility and tumultuous times for traders.

From conflicting headlines about President Donald Trump’s tariffs against other nations to total confusion about which assets to seek shelter in, it has been one for the record books.

Amid all the confusion, when traditional “haven assets” failed to act as safe places to park money, one bright spot emerged that might have surprised some market participants: bitcoin.

“Historically, cash (the US dollar), bonds (US Treasuries), the Swiss Franc, and gold have fulfilled that role [safe haven], with bitcoin edging in on some of that territory,” said NYDIG Research in a note.

Safe haven asset performance (NYDIG Research)

Safe haven asset performance (NYDIG Research)

NYDIG’s data showed that while gold and Swiss Franc had been consistent safe-haven winners, since ‘Liberation Day’—when President Trump announced sweeping tariff hikes on April 2, kicking off extreme volatility in the market—bitcoin has been added to the list.

“Bitcoin has acted less like a liquid levered version of levered US equity beta and more like the non-sovereign issued store of value that it is,” NYDIG wrote.

Zooming out, it seems that as the “sell America” trade gains momentum, investors are taking notice of bitcoin and the original promise of the biggest cryptocurrency.

“Though the connection is still tentative, bitcoin appears to be fulfilling its original promise as a non-sovereign store of value, designed to thrive in times like these,” NYDIG added.

Read more: Gold and Bonds’ Safe Haven Allure May be Fading With Bitcoin Emergence

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Crypto Outperforms Nasdaq as BTC Becomes 'U.S. Isolation Hedge' Amid $5T Equities Carnage https://earlybirdsinvest.com/crypto-outperforms-nasdaq-as-btc-becomes-u-s-isolation-hedge-amid-5t-equities-carnage/ https://earlybirdsinvest.com/crypto-outperforms-nasdaq-as-btc-becomes-u-s-isolation-hedge-amid-5t-equities-carnage/#respond Sat, 05 Apr 2025 16:10:16 +0000 https://earlybirdsinvest.com/crypto-outperforms-nasdaq-as-btc-becomes-u-s-isolation-hedge-amid-5t-equities-carnage/

President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariff unveiling had led to a $5.4 trillion U.S. equities market wipeout in just two days as the S&P 500 index dropped to its lowest level in 11 months and the Nasdaq 100 entered bear market territory.

Yet, amidst the chaos, cryptocurrency prices are showing resiliency, with bitcoin (BTC) dropping roughly 6% since the tariffs were unveiled, compared to the Nasdaq’s 11% drop. The broader crypto market, as measured by the CoinDesk 20 (CD20) index, dropped by roughly 4.9% over the same period.

To put the sell-off figures into perspective, the total crypto market cap is around $2.65 trillion, according to data from TheTie. In the last 24-hour period, bitcoin dropped 0.3% to $82,619.77, while the broader CD20 went up by roughly 0.2%. At the market close on Friday, most crypto-related stocks fell as well, but some actually moved up.

Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings (MARA) rose 0.6%, while Core Scientific (CORZ) saw a 0.4% upward move. Strategy (MSTR), the largest corporate holder of bitcoin with 528,185 BTC on its balance sheet, rose 4%. It significantly outperformed the Nasdaq on Friday, which plunged 5.8%.

Cryptocurrency prices are likely to remain resilient. Given their accessibility through traditional investment products, including exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and their performance, they could be “useful as a TradFi hedge,” according to Standard Chartered’s Geoffrey Kendrick.

“Over the last 36 hours I think we can also add ‘US isolation’ hedge to the list of bitcoin uses,” Kendrick wrote in an email dated April 4, adding in a chart showing that among the Magnificent 7 stocks, only Microsoft outperformed BTC during the sell-off.

The resilience is also coming as the crypto community celebrated the purported birthday of bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. The date is based on the bitcoin creator’s profile with the P2P Foundation.

The date, some speculate, isn’t real but instead symbolic. It coincides with the anniversary of Executive Order 6102, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 5, 1933. The order required Americans to turn in their gold to the Federal Reserve.

Read more: Bitcoin Begins to Decouple From Nasdaq as U.S. Stocks Crumble

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