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Cryptocurrency market sentiment divided two months after Bitcoin halving, data shows
Bitcoin’s post-halving pullback appears to have divided the cryptocurrency community, with investors seen as the most bullish group at the moment.
Cryptocurrency investors, developers, speculators and traders appear to be divided in their views on the current state of the market, with “no strong consensus sentiment” prevailing at the moment, says cryptocurrency price aggregator CoinGecko.
In a survey conducted from mid-June to July 8 involving 2,558 participants, CoinGecko assessed market sentiment. The largest group of respondents (26.1%) described themselves as “somewhat bullish,” while the smallest group (11.8%) identified themselves as strongly bearish. Overall, nearly 50% of participants leaned bullish despite Bitcoin’s recent price dip below $56,000.
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CoinGecko says that neutral sentiment was the “second most common survey response,” suggesting that this may indicate that participants are “waiting for further developments before forming their market view.” Among the group, investors were the most optimistic, with over 54.1% feeling bullish and only 20.7% having bearish sentiments.
“In comparison, traders’ sentiments towards the cryptocurrency market were largely mixed, with 39.0% expressing optimism and 33.5% pessimism.”
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Speculators were the most bearish, with 28.5% of them feeling bullish, compared to 42.4% who were bearish. CoinGecko suggested that this group may have taken profits and “exited the market for now.”
In early July, Bitcoin (BTC) the price plummeted rapidly when German authorities started offloading tranches of BTC to exchanges after seizing 50,000 BTC from illegal movie site Movie2k. In a recent interview Speaking to CNBC, cryptocurrency entrepreneur Anthony Pompliano suggested that people are “scared to buy Bitcoin” due to the influx of thousands of coins into the market, adding that BTC is currently in a highly illiquid market state, with the German liquidations significantly impacting the price.