Bitcoin Eyes $50,000, Bitcoin Surpasses Facebook In Market Capitalization

Bitcoin price today is making a push back to $50,000 for the first time since El Salvador’s checked rollout of the largest cryptocurrency as legal tender at the start of September. Bitcoin was trading nearly 3% higher to $49,407.

Bitcoin rose 1.11% to $49533.7 by 15:50(GMT+8).

Bitcoin had plummeted from more than $52,000 per coin, over 17% on September 7 after El Salvador became the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender as the rollout stumbled in its first hours. 

Other cryptocurrency prices today were mixed with ether, the coin linked to ethereum blockchain and the second largest crypto was trading marginally higher at $3,393.9. Cardano prices slipped nearly 1% to $2.20 whereas dogecoin surged 8% to $0.24.

"All crypto markets have been positive for a few days. The total crypto market capitalization has broken out of the descending channel pattern, indicating some type of trend reversal. We can definitely expect a recovery in the crypto markets, as the RSI indicator for BTC has also broken out of the pattern. With the dollar index weakening slightly compared to the last few days, we can only hope that the cryptocurrency markets will gain some buying momentum," said Siddharth Menon, COO of WazirX.

Meanwhile, cryptocurrency investment products and funds recorded inflows for a seventh straight week, data from digital asset manager CoinShares showed on Monday. Inflows to the sector were $90.2 million last week, led by bitcoin which snagged $69 million, according to CoinShares data as of October 1. Over the past seven weeks, crypto inflows reached $390 million.

Bitcoin recorded its third straight week of inflows. Ethereum products and funds, meanwhile, posted another week of inflows totalling $20 million, despite conceding market share to bitcoin in recent weeks. Inflows to ether, the token for the Ethereum blockchain, so far this year amount to $1 billion.

Another report showed that India, Vietnam and Pakistan are helping to lead the expansion of cryptocurrency markets in central and southern Asia, according to Chainalysis. India’s market grew 641% over the past year and Pakistan’s 711%, a report from Chainalysis showed, using a metric that estimates the total cryptocurrency received by a country.

Bitcoin Surpasses Facebook In Market Capitalization

Bitcoin achieves another big milestone by surpassing Facebook in market capitalization at over $929,014,620,160 at the time of writing, according to Asset Dash.

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Even though Bitcoin has had some setbacks in price earlier this year, BTC continues to rise rampantly. In the past year, Bitcoin is up over 360%, compared to Facebook which is only up 22%. Facebook is just the next giant slain in Bitcoin’s path to becoming the world’s most valuable asset. Note that the comparison here is that of Facebook the publicly traded company and Bitcoin, the monetary asset and distributed network.

Bitcoin was the best performing asset of the last decade and has started off this decade really strong, which poises BTC to potentially becoming the best performing asset of this decade as well.

As we go into Q4 of this year, Bitcoin is primed to capture even more value and grow exponentially higher than what it is today. As we can see below, Bitcoin typically tends to perform well in Q4 of previous years. Q4 2020 was at the beginning of this current bull run we find ourselves in today. Many are predicting an even higher leg up this Q4 due to many circumstances such as the expansion of the monetary supply by central banks, El Salvador making bitcoin legal tender and adding it to their balance sheet, BTC being taken off exchanges by long term holders, and more.

Ranking BTC against the top stocks, it’s clear that Bitcoin is slowly climbing its way to the top of the list. With Bitcoin leapfrogging Facebook, that now puts it in 6th place, right behind Amazon. The next obstacles after that will be in order: Google, Saudi Aramco, Microsoft, then Apple.