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Home » Crypto News » Bitcoin Price Moons to New 2020 Highs on PayPal News

Bitcoin Price Moons to New 2020 Highs on PayPal News

Author: George Georgiev

Last Updated Oct 21, 2020 @ 14:52

Hours after news about PayPal allowing its users to buy Bitcoin broke out, the cryptocurrency has skyrocketed to a new 2020 high. Meanwhile, altcoins are getting crushed against BTC.

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Newfound bullish momentum is omnipresent with Bitcoin’s price throughout the last few days. The cryptocurrency has increased by more than $2,000 since October 6th, and it shows no signs of slowing down.

Bitcoin Price Breaks 2020 Highs on PayPal News

Throughout the entire month of September, Bitcoin’s price was somewhat stagnant, with a few minor exceptions. This became a cause for increasing worries among cryptocurrency analysts and traders, many of whom were worried that the price would head lower and fill the (still) unfilled CME gap down at $9,600.

All of this changed on October 6th when BTC started its ascend. Since then, the price has increased by more than $2,000, with the momentum culminating today on some major news coming from PayPal.

The world’s largest online payment processor announced that it would enable its customers to buy, sell, and store Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as soon as the “coming weeks” for US-based accounts and the first half of 2021 for other countries.

Naturally, the market reacted in a positive way. Today, Bitcoin’s price has surged from a low of around $11,910 to a high of $12,888 on Binance Futures, before retracing to where it’s currently trading at $11,750. With this sudden move, Bitcoin broke the previous 2020 high marked on August 17th when the price reached almost $12,500.

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BTC/USD. Source: TradingView

The Rest of the Market Stalls Against BTC

Somewhat expectedly, altcoins are bleeding heavily against Bitcoin. The market dominance of the world’s leading cryptocurrency is increasing aggressively over the past few days, as it’s now sitting at 61.%, up about 3% in the last month.

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Bitcoin Dominance. Source: CoinMarketCap

As CryptoPotato reported yesterday, BTC’s market dominance is sitting on a 2-month high, while altcoins are already feeling the pressure.

Moreover, a recent analysis indicated that the latest increase in the price of Bitcoin comes from fresh capital, and it’s not a rotation of funds from alts. This shows that the new money entering the space goes into Bitcoin, rather than alternative cryptocurrencies.

On an entirely positive note, it’s worth mentioning that this seems to be a news-driven event. The fact is, however, that PayPal still hasn’t allowed its users to buy Bitcoin, meaning that there might be more positive developments once the feature is rolled into the platform’s services. Moreover, the company has also stated that it will push for the adoption of using digital assets with its vast merchant network in the following year.

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Georgi Georgiev is CryptoPotato's editor-in-chief and a seasoned writer with over four years of experience writing about blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Georgi's passion for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies bloomed in late 2016 and he hasn't looked back since. Crypto’s technological and economic implications are what interest him most, and he has one eye turned to the market whenever he’s not sleeping. Contact George: LinkedIn

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