Shiba Inu’s upside remains muted – What could happen next?

  • Shiba Inu momentum remains weak amid crypto recoveries

  • The lack of fundamentals is the reason for the weak momentum

  • SHIB has maintained an ascending triangle

Most cryptocurrencies surged as the US inflation data showed cooling prices. However, Shiba Inu SHIB/USD defied the sentiment and maintained the same level. The token has been trading within narrow margins at $0.00001224. The level coincides with the upper bound of the consolidation zone.

Shiba Inu’s latest indecision underlines its status as a meme token. The token has rarely gone with the momentum of the market. Instead, it has relied on influencer mentions and crypto’s own fundamentals. With few developments occurring for the cryptocurrency, that could explain the negligible movement.

Nonetheless, it is important to note that Shiba Inu’s price has increased by more than 22% in a month. The price increase coincided with increased whale activity in anticipation of recovery. Shiba Inu lovers could be looking for the next trigger to take the token higher. But in the meantime, we may have to put up with a sluggish price recovery.

Shiba Inu trades in an ascending triangle amid a weak momentum.

Source – TradingView

From the technical outlook, SHIB is in a bullish trend. The uptrend and resistance form an ascending triangle. However, the momentum is dying, as confirmed by the MACD indicators and the price action at the resistance.

Two outcomes are likely for SHIB. The first is a breakout of the ascending triangle, confirming a bullish bias. For the price to move higher, there must be some fundamentals to drive SHIB. If a breakout fails, SHIB could slide back to the consolidation zone.

Summary

SHIB has maintained the uptrend, but the momentum remains weak. Watch for a potential breakout and an acceleration of bullish momentum.

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Ethereum Merge upgrade date will depend on Hashrate – Vitalik Buterin

Ethereum’s co-founder Vitalik Buterin in a tweet today hinted that the actual date of the Ethereum Merge would depend on hashrate.

Bordel.wtf had earlier predicted that the upgrade would take place on September 15 and although Ethereum Foundation and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin have not strongly asserted a date, September 15 seems to be the likely date based on the current hashrate which is at 879.2 TH/s.

According to Butterin’s tweet, the terminal total difficulty (TTD) has been set to 58750000000000000000000.

Once the TTD is reached, Ethereum Mainnet will merge with the Beacon Chain and transition from Proof-of-Work (PoW) to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism.

Fixed number of hashes remaining

According to Buterin, Ethereum mainnet PoW now has fixed hashes remaining to mine.

If the hasrate stays near the current hashrate 879.2 TH/s, the merge will happen by the anticipated date of September 15. However, if the hashrate changes, the Merge date will definitely change.

Ethereum Network currently requires to maintain an average hashrate of 872.2 TH/s to achieve the set TTD of 58750000000000000000000 BY September 15 at 04:44 UTC.

Goerli testnet Merge is already done

This week, developers successfully completed the Goerli testnet Merge and all eyes are now set on the upcoming Bellatrix and Paris upgrades which are tentatively scheduled for September 6 and September 15.

However, the Merge is expected to happen before the Bellatrix upgrade and before the end of September.

The crypto community is eagerly awaiting the Merge upgrade which is also expected to have a very significant effect on the price of ether (ETH).

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Ballet Crypto CEO: Bitcoin doesn’t have to follow Ethereum on PoS

Ballet Crypto CEO Bobby Lee has added his voice to the many in the industry who say the pioneer PoW blockchain does not have to follow Ethereum’s path.

Bobby Lee, the CEO of Ballet Crypto, a US-based crypto storage app provider, believes Bitcoin (BTC) is fine just where it is in terms of its consensus mechanism.

Like most within the Bitcoin community, there is no need to contemplate an upgrade similar to what Ethereum (ETH) has pursued for several years now – the switch from a proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS) mechanism.

Lee’s comments were part of a broader outlook on Ethereum’s upcoming Merge set for September, and the overall bullish picture after that. He also touched on what the transition could mean for Bitcoin, the leading proof-of-work network.

The Ballet Crypto CEO, who says he is “very bullish” on crypto, shared these views with Bloomberg Television on Friday.

Bitcoin and Ethereum’s PoS switch

This week has seen Ethereum successfully activate the third of its testnets ahead of the ETH 2.0 transition via the “Merge”.

The event, slated for mid-September, has been coming since the launch of the Beacon Chain in 2020, with millions of Ether, the native token on the Ethereum network staked amid investor expectations of benefitting – not from mining, but as validators.

Amid this slow move towards the upgrade has been a call from some quarters for Bitcoin to also consider proof-of-stake, the main contention being the huge amounts of energy needed to run and secure the benchmark cryptocurrency’s network via mining.

According to the Ballet Crypto chief, attention could turn to Bitcoin if Ethereum ends up with a successful PoS network. But despite what might be a “fierce debate” on this, Lee thinks Ethereum and Bitcoin being different fundamentally means the two blockchains can go on to follow different consensus paths after the “merge.”

Fundamentally Bitcoin and Ethereum are different even though they’re routinely lumped into the same bucket as decentralized cryptocurrency. But the reality is that they’re quite different, because Bitcoin is more about money as an underlying asset class whereas Ethereum is more about a global computation system – like a global internet computer system,” Lee told Bloomberg.

In his opinion, Bitcoin will remain a store of value and used as money, while Ethereum is set to continue running smart contracts and enable things like DeFi and NFTs and many more applications and tokens.

And for that matter it’s not that it’s not critical that Bitcoin has to follow Ethereum for its consensus mechanism. They can be different. And right now they’re going in different directions” he added.

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