Bitcoin's plunge in volume stirs questions about its future. Drop in transaction volume indicating a bearish outlook for the BTC markets?
The number of confirmed daily bitcoin transactions has dropped substantially in recent weeks, with blockchain.info data indicating that the seven-day average falling from an all-time high of nearly 350,000 on the 16th of December 2017 to reach lows of between 150,000 – 155,000 during February 2018.
The transaction data may be bad news for Bitcoin bulls, according to Charles Morris, chief investment officer of Newscape Capital Group in London, who invests in cryptocurrencies. Trading and purchases on the Bitcoin network, which can be measured by metrics like transaction volume, is indicative of price direction, he said.
"We had a hype-cycle and now it's cooling down," Morris, who's working on a project that will facilitate price discovery in various cryptocurrencies, said. "We just may be entering a bear market" for Bitcoin.