We all know that there is a huge market for buying and selling cryptocurrencies and that many people make and lose money on these plays. Those who win usually use various devices and indicators to understand the market and be able to predict the next movements, and one of the main and most reliable indicators to buy Bitcoin is the Hash Ribbons. That is why, we at IBC created this article, so you can a greater knowledge of how to invest in crypto.
Before understanding what is that indication, let’s get familiar with a few concepts
Table of Contents
- What is Bitcoin Hashrate
- Hashrate as an expression
- What is Bitcoin Hash Ribbons Indicator?
- Why is This a Warning Sign?
- How today’s Hash Ribbons Buy Signal may affect the market?
What is Bitcoin Hashrate?
First of all, we must mention that this indicator is very important. The hash rate is a competition that can mean an income of more than 10 million euros per day, allowing you and not other people to mine a block. For this same reason, there is a fierce struggle, reserved for very few, to obtain devices that have an increasingly optimized and faster calculation.
At the beginning of the article, we explained that the hash rate “indicates the amount of computational operations that a miner or the network of miners as a whole is capable of performing”. Viewed universally, the concept is correct. But in the world of cryptocurrencies, this concept is insufficient to explain what hash rate really means.
Sound complicated? Perhaps, but it is only necessary to expand the vision and scope of this concept a little more. And that’s exactly what we’re going to do now.
The hash rate as an expression of a miner’s power
First of all, mining a bitcoin requires a computer or electronic device capable of resolving SHA-256 hashes. This is because the PoW Bitcoin protocol uses this feature for mining work. In the early days of Bitcoin, a simple computer was sufficient to quickly resolve the system’s SHA-256 hashes.
However, today and due to the dynamic complexity of this task, it is practically impossible to mine bitcoins using a simple computer. Because, to generate a hash that meets the specification, it is necessary to test trillions of nonce, a very complex work. As a result, nowadays getting the hash of a valid block has a very high mining difficulty. So, to succeed in this task, you need specialized hardware like ASIC Miners.
Thanks to the above, we can get our first glimpse of the hash rate concept. In this sense, we can define
“The hash rate refers to the computing power of a cryptocurrency miner to provide solutions based on a specific cryptographic hash.”
For example, we can understand the difference between a computer, capable of solving a few mega hashes per second (MH/s) (millions of SHA-XNUMX hashes per second). As an FPGA or ASIC miner, it is capable of reaching from hundreds of MH/s to tens of terahashes per second (billions of hashes per second).
At this point, the hash rate concept is used to show the potential of a miner. However, there is another usage where the term hash rate is also important as we will see below.
The hash rate as an expression of the power of a blockchain network
As you know, the Bitcoin network is made up of hundreds of thousands of miners specializing in this task. Each specialized miner is thousands of times more powerful than a computer to resolve SHA-256 type hashes. But the best thing about all this is that the work of all these miners adds up. All so that your network set ends up offering superior power that allows you to resolve SHA-256 hashes faster.
With this, we have our second definition:
The hash rate refers to the overall ability or power of a cryptocurrency’s network to solve cryptographic puzzles resulting from the Proof of Work and the implemented cryptographic function.
In short, the working power of all miners on the Bitcoin network is summed up so that we can finally know the total power of the network. Currently, the Bitcoin network has a global hash rate of 110,000 PH/s.
With that in mind, we can now understand how Bitcoin Hash Ribbon works, so
Why is this a warning sign?
The Hash Ribbons indicator works with three warning signals, which automatically lit up when miners started shutting down their machines. Are they:
Miner capitulation signal: at this point, the hash rate starts to decrease as miners give up mining. It is an indicator that the rate is falling precipitously.
End of miner capitulation signal: this is when the rate recovers and goes back up again.
Bitcoin Buy Signal: This warning signal is only triggered when the moving average of the Bitcoin price in the last 10 days is above the average of the last 20 days. In this case, the buying impulse becomes positive.
How the today’s Hash Ribbons Buy Signal may affect the current market?
With the explanations above, we can expect the Bitcoin bottom to be close, but not that it has already reached it, in this way, we expect to see Bitcoin make a bullish rally without major downward corrections, the famous “buy high and sell even higher”.
The $20.700 dropped and still didn’t have much of strong a reaction. So we can expect 19700$-19000 to be tested again in the 1D demand zone,
Then probably it should go 28-29K range there is an untouched Supply. A Stop-Loss at 18555$ is recommended. NFA
