Bitcoin’s price movement has been one of the few metrics that has captured the attention of the mainstream financial market. As time has passed, the coverage of cryptocurrency markets has increased multifold, mostly thanks to the buzz created by Bitcoin crossing a new price threshold.
In a recent tweet, Jimmy Song, a popular Bitcoin Core developer, asked the community if there was a relation between Bitcoin’s price to that of consecutive block numbers. His tweet read,
“Has anyone made a graph showing Bitcoin price relative to the dollar with the x-axis being block numbers and not Gregorian time?”
The best response was given by PlanB, a popular cryptocurrency analyst, whose analysis showed that there was indeed a positive correlation between the price of the king coin and the block height.
Source: Twitter
The graph showed that since the genesis block, the graph had gone up the positive axis. The correlation was also plotted keeping in mind the much talked about Bitcoin halving, stipulated to take place in 2020. Bitcoin’s price, which is currently holding above the $10,000 mark, seems to have created an impact on the graph, acting as one of the uptrends in conjunction with the growing block height.
One of the steepest climbs in terms of price occurred in the window where Bitcoin’s block height rose from 1 million to 1.5 million, after which there was a slight lull. The world’s largest cryptocurrency hit one of its recent price highs when the block height touched the 5 million market, after which there was a steady hold heading to 6 million.
Bitcoin’s price was also on the mind of Josh Rager, a popular crypto-analyst and a member of the advisory team at Token Bacon and Level Invest, who predicted a bear/bull atmosphere for the digital gold. Rager had tweeted,
“$BTC range to watch
As time goes new ranges and price levels will form
Marked out on the chart with $10,850 still the area to close above
A close below $10,189 wouldn’t be good and I’d have bear bias with a move below $9800s
Currently at range support.”
At press time, Bitcoin was trading at $10,592.74, after a slight growth of 2 percent over the last 24 hours. The cryptocurrency also held a total market cap of $188.84 billion, with a 24-hour market volume of $19.52 billion.
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