Japanese Investors Rushed To Buy The Dip After Bitcoin Bloodbath

[zendicator]

The number of retail investors registering for an account with Japanese cryptocurrency exchange bitbank spiked by 40% in the week after the Bitcoin bloodbath.

The March 12 meltdown saw the price of Bitcoin (BTC) drop to a new 2020 low at $3,775. An official blog post by bitbank market analyst Yuya Hasegawa reveals that Bitcoin trade volume and account registrations both saw a significant surge in the wake of the crash.

Even the number of users going through KYC was above average on the day of the BTC downturn and the following couple of days.

Hasegawa contrasts the current situation to the period between November to December 2018 when the price of Bitcoin ground down. In that case, “interest in the crypto market as a whole went down and bitbank’s daily account registrations took a hit.”

However, the price saw a 60% rebound while sustaining high volumes soon after the recent crash, which suggests to Hasegawa “the intent to buy the dip is quite obvious”:

“When we take the increased daily account registrations into consideration, we can once again deduce that the current market recovery is driven largely by retail investors. Furthermore, as Forbes reports, this phenomenon is likely to be global, as Kraken, a San Francisco-based crypto exchange, experienced a steep increase in account registrations after March 12.”

Bitcoin halving makes it a safe bet
In just under 49 days, BTC will experience a halving where the block reward will decrease to 6.25 BTC. The last time this happened was in 2016.

Hasegawa writes that data from Google Trends suggests that investors in Japan and around the world are well aware of the possible price impact of the halving and will seize on any price drop to add to their holdings:

“There is a good chance that, for this time around, there are many retail investors who want to buy Bitcoin or stack up their holdings at the cheapest price possible before its halving.”

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/japanese-investors-rushed-to-buy-the-dip-after-bitcoin-bloodbath

[Senin]

Well, apparently, this is a true statement. We understand that all markets have recently been affected and this was due to the spread of coronavirus. People urgently needed cash, and therefore the cryptocurrency market will recover after a certain time and continue to grow. Who now has free funds and who invests them in bitcoin and other top cryptocurrencies, he will later receive a good profit.

[Fenix]

The cryptocurrency market in the middle of this month fell not because of its own flaws, but because people urgently needed money. Therefore, its growth potential, including before the May reduction in remuneration to miners by half for each new bitcoin block mined, remains still very high. I think the Japanese understand this well. At the same time, as one of the highest in terms of development of technology and population incomes, the Japanese have the opportunity to invest their free money in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.