First Mover: Bitcoin Breaks Out, Near $58K, After Visa Announces USDC Move

PLUS: Visa Uses Anchorage to Settle USDC Transaction on Ethereum in Further Crypto Push

Everything you need to make sense of the crypto markets and beyond By the CoinDesk Markets Team - Edited by Bradley Keoun March 29, 2021 Sponsored by     Bitcoin (BTC) +3.8%  $57,911 Ether (ETH)  +4.8%   $1,766 (Price data as of March 29 @11:00 UTC) Good morning. Here's what we're writing about: Market Moves by Omkar Godbole: Bitcoin Breaks Out Technician's Take by Damanick Dantes: After Market Pause, Bitcoin Bounces Off Oversold Levels Check out the CoinDesk TV show "First Mover," hosted by Christine Lee, Lawrence Lewitinn and Emily Parker, at 9 a.m. U.S. Eastern time. Today the show will feature guests: Silvio Micali, founder of Algorand San Bankman-Fried, CEO of FTX and Alameda Research Mira Christanto, senior research analyst at Messari   If you were forwarded this newsletter and would like to receive it, sign up here.  Market Moves by Omkar Godbole   Bitcoin Breaks Out, Near $58K, After Visa's USDC Move Bitcoin is rising in the wake of payments giant Visa announcing support for USD Coin (USDC), a stablecoin whose value is pegged to the U.S. dollar.   The biggest cryptocurrency by market value is trading higher on the day, near $58,000 at press time, with the daily chart showing a bullish breakout out from a two-week-long descending channel identified by trendlines connecting March 14 and March 20 highs and March 16 and March 25 highs.   Prices have risen by nearly $2,000 since Reuters early today reported Visa's decision to allow the use of stablecoin USDC to settle transactions on its payment network.   Bitcoin daily price chart, showing breakout from trend. 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Get started at nexo.io Technician's Take by Damanick Dantes Bitcoin Rallies From Support, Resistance Around $60K Bitcoin (BTC) held support around $50,000 after registering an oversold signal on the four-hour relative strength index (RSI). The next level of resistance is seen around $60,000. The four-hour RSI is not yet overbought, which could keep buyers active above the $54,000 support level. BTC is now breaking above a series of lower price highs from March 13, which suggests the short-term trend is recovering. The daily RSI is back in neutral territory, which previously supported strong price rallies. Bitcoin's four-hour chart shows a bounce after the RSI indicator signaled oversold conditions. (TradingView/CoinDesk)   --Damanick Dantes Original story found here: Bitcoin Rallies From Support, Resistance Around $60K BOLO Be on the look out for these upcoming events: 15:00 UTC (11:00 a.m. ET) Federal Reserve Governor Christopher J. 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CoinDesk's Christine Kim and Will Foxley, along with Consensys' Ben Edgington, present a weekly podcast series on the live development of Ethereum 2.0 and its potential impact on the crypto markets.   In each episode, the team discusses major news events related to Eth 2.0 from addressing skepticism to the consequences of node slashing, and gives updates on the status of CoinDesk's own Eth 2.0 validator.   Listen to Mapping Out Eth 2.0 every Thursday on the CoinDesk Podcast Network. ICYMI In case you missed it, here's this past Friday's episode of "First Mover" on CoinDesk TV:   $6B Options Expiry, Markets Analysis, Ethereum 2.0 Staking, NFT for Charity Investors eager to see if a record $6B bitcoin options expiry sends BTC in a new direction. Does April look bullish? Shaun Fernando, of derivatives exchange Deribit, joins "First Mover" to discuss. Also, publicly-traded bitcoin miner BTCS announces its Ethereum 2.0 staking operation is producing revenues from all 200 of its nodes. 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