Bitcoin Enters "Institutional FOMO" Phase

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Charting company Whalemap has come up with a new term which according to us perfectly encapsulates Bitcoin in 2020. After a phase of panic (March), rebound (April), halving (May) and acceptance (June until now), they have deemed it “institutional FOMO”.

Their latest graphic shows the moment whenever a Bitcoin wallet holding more than 10,000 coins, aka a whale, has bought Bitcoins in order to HODL them.

These are the levels and this is what institutional fomo looks like 🙂 pic.twitter.com/xw38JooSeV

— whalemap (@whale_map) November 13, 2020

Whalemap explained:

These are the levels and this is what institutional fomo looks like.

Given that 2020 has come with both the attention of Wall Street companies and people (Paul Tudor Jones and Fidelity) as well as headlines by Silicon Valley greats (Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Square as well as PayPal come to mind), it is indeed so that the volatility that normally comes with Bitcoin has been lost as of late.

• Overview of all publicly traded companies which invested in Bitcoin.

Grayscale Buys $240m in #Bitcoin In Largest Capital Raise Week Ever https://t.co/LjK7BoVpZ3

— CryptoNetDaily (@CryptoNetDaily) November 14, 2020

Is 2020 what 2018 should have been?

Many have since long awaited both Wall Street and Silicon Valley to accept Bitcoin as normal, and crypto analysts expected institutional investment would normally flood into the market in 2018, taking Bitcoin far beyond its all-time high of $20,000. This hope never materialized and those who of us who got in at the height of the 2017 ICO run will never forget. However, thanks to the maturation of the asset and the widespread acceptance, it looks like “old money” is finally flowing in.

Grayscale acquired an additional 15,114 Bitcoins this week.

Their total now sits at over 506K BTC.

Weak hands keep selling and Grayscale just keeps scooping up cheap #Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/gKvyxpYOoD

— Bloqport (@Bloqport) November 14, 2020

15k Bitcoin buy

Another example of that Wall Street money flowing in came with an announcement by Grayscale this week. The company, which manages the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), announced it has just bought another 15,114 Bitcoin for a value of $241 million. They know own a whopping 500k Bitcoins.

At the time of writing, the Bitcoin price is wrestling with the $16k level, eager to hold on.