Bitcoin's latest dump lacking healthy respond
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Santiment is back to market analysis.
Today we will cover BTC from two different angles because of interesting data.
Next days we will pay our attention to altcoins.
1. Borrow and pump
It's almost impossible not to notice an overwhelming Bitcoin rally, easily breaking both $20K and $30K:
We consider this BTC pump is mainly driven by Tether. Yes, by good old USDT.
Market players are borrowing Tether. What for? For riding BTC.
Why do we think so?
First, BTC/USDT is the most liquid pair in many places:
Second, lending rates for USDT were higher than many other stablecoins. On the second day of 2021, traders agreed to pay almost 68% APY to borrow USDT from AAVE:
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