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Mooners and Shakers: Bitcoin flat for now, but hedge fund bloke Mark Yusko says $300k by 2028

By Stockhead July 28, 2023 In Bitcoin, Chainlink

Pass the hopium pipe, would ya? (Getty Images)

Bitcoin (and the crypto market on the whole) is copy trading Wall Street again, wobbling back down to the $29k hall of mirrors to have a good, hard look at itself.

Why did Wall Street trading dip? We can’t ask Patrick Bateman as we removed him from our speed dial ever since he invited us over to listen to Phil Collins, which seemed like a red flag.

But we can tell you that it almost certainly was an inverse correlation to the US Dollar Index (DXY) surging again, this time on the back of the US domestic product (GDP) print for Q2, which came in overnight better than analysts had anticipated.

We’re led to believe, however, that this might turn out to be a good thing for the performance of stonks (and therefore also risky risk assets including crypto), and that’s because it plays into the whole economic soft-landing narrative that is getting a run around campfires once again – both in the US and here.

Macro analytical eyes are now turning to the upcoming (this evening, AEST) Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Index release to see if the US of A can showboat further signs of economic growth, which maybe someone like Mitch McConnell can facially emote for us.

GDP comes out way more positive than expected.

That’s great. Soft landing case starts to pick up pace. If GDP was worse than expected, you’d see markets drop.#Bitcoin steady, stocks steady.

Now PCE better than expected and we go up.

— Michaël van de Poppe (@CryptoMichNL) July 27, 2023

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Some of the biggest 24-hour gainers and losers at press time. (Stats accurate at time of publishing, based on CoinGecko.com data.)

PUMPERS (11-100 market cap position)

• Casper Network (CSPR), (market cap: US$449 million) +6%

• Stellar (XLM), (market cap: US$4.49 million) +5%

• Internet Computer (ICP), (market cap: US$1.87 billion) +4%

• Chainlink (LINK), (market cap: US$4.32 billion) +3%

• ImmutableX (IMX), (market cap: US$793 million) +2%

SLUMPERS (11-100 market cap position)

• FLEX Coin (FLEX), (market cap: US$410 billion) -15%

• Theta Network (THETA), (market cap: US$785 million) -5%

• Kaspa (KAS), (market cap: US$738 million) -4%

Around the blocks

Some pertinence and randomness that stuck with us on our morning moves through the Crypto Twitterverse.

#Chainlink has jumped ahead of the #altcoin pack Thursday. And prices appear to be powered by heavy whale accumulation, with the highest amount of transactions valued at $1M+ this year. Wallets holding 100K-10M $LINK are accumulating rapidly as well. https://t.co/U1vV7JmyNJ pic.twitter.com/gkIm6lhMie

— Santiment (@santimentfeed) July 27, 2023

JUST IN – $15 billion TD Cowen: “We believe #bitcoin could ultimately represent a superior store of value relative to all other forms of money” pic.twitter.com/W0bWefGQwy

— Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) July 27, 2023

BlackRock Recommends Massive 84.9% #Bitcoin Allocation for Optimal Portfolio Performance

MORE:https://t.co/dHR0mgHvyC

— Bitcoin Archive (@BTC_Archive) July 26, 2023

Finally, this is extremely horrible, but just a reminder to any newly (or otherwise) minted crypto millionaires. You do you, but playing it cool about all your new-found wealth might be something to consider?