The cryptocurrency market has re-entered a state of “extreme greed” amid a market rally that has seen the price of the flagship cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC) retake the $100,000 mark to now trade at $102,000.
According to the Crypto Fear & Greed Index, an aggregate for investor confidence and attitude towards the market has risen to a level of “Extreme Greed” after plunging to a neutral level amid a market correction that saw the flagship cryptocurrency retest the $92,000 level before recovering.
The index uses a series of data sources to calculate investors’ attitudes toward the market, including market momentum and volume, volatility, social media sentiment, Bitcoin’s dominance, and data from Google Trends.
The index, which saw a low of around 6 after the collapse of popular cryptocurrency exchange FTX back in 2022 when BTC dropped to an $18,000 low at the height of the bear market, suggests that investors may be “getting too greedy” and the market could be “due for a correction.”
The market has moved into a state of extreme greed at a time in which large corporate holders of Bitcoin have doubled down on their BTC accumulation strategy, with Nasdaq-listed business intelligence firm MicroStrategy starting the year with a 1,070 BTC purchase.
Crypto Market Optimism Grows Over Expected Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
Optimism in the crypto market has been growing over several factors, with a bull market rally kicking off after the U.S. presidential election was won by Republican candidate Donald Trump, who ran with a pro-crypto stance and vowed to create a strategic Bitcoin reserve.
Trump could, for example, leverage the approximately 200,000 seized Bitcoins the U.S. government already holds to form the strategic reserve, or if Senator Cynthia Lummis’s Bitcoin Act is adopted, the Treasury will purchase 200,000 BTC annually over a five-year period to accumulate one million coins.
Trump has also moved to appoint Paul Atkins as Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Atkins has a history of supporting the crypto market and is the co-chair ofthe crypto lobbying group Token Alliance.
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