Bitcoin Price Surges to Over $7500, Stock Market Collapsed Along with wit Covid19 Cure Testing

Bitcoin surged to hit over $7,500. It is now trading at up to $7,546 at several cryptocurrency exchanges such as Upbit, Binance, KuCoin, Bithumb, and others. On the other hand, stock markets have been on the decline as institutional selling and coronavirus treatment development failed to prove.

BTC/USD 24h price analysis

Bitcoin (BTC/USD) is changing hands in green at around $7,546.92 (6.30%) with a market cap (MC) of over $138.43 bln and volume of $42.72 bln. The world’s leading altcoin is still dominating the market by almost 63.9 percent. The total MC is sitting at around $216.744 billion and total volume is at $151.353 billion, according to CoinMarketCap data.

Total Bitcoin fees for on-chain transactions increased 50%

According to data from Glassnode, an on-chain data analysis service firm, Bitcoin's total fees have also gained by around 50.7% to $9,500 or more in the past one day (24 hours). The average BTC fee also gained by about 58.8% to hit $0.78.

In response, Meni Rosenfeld, Chairman of the Israeli Bitcoin Association, said that if the Bitcoin fee is too low, miners' funding will be insufficient, and if it is too high, BTC will be less useful. Generally, the Bitcoin fee growth rate is low, which can be a positive sign (of the price increase), but if it gets too high, you need to seriously consider the new solution.

Stock markets lag

As BTC is on the rise, the index of the S&P 500, and other benchmark indices have been declining, as NewsBTC reports. This somehow supports the claim that cryptocurrency is a safe asset. Nevertheless, adding that Bitcoin has soared over 100% since March 12 (which was Black Thursday) until today, added that bulls are responding drastically to the recent gain in selling prices.

This is a very unusual phenomenon compared to the strong correlation between Bitcoin and the stock market. Bitcoin has been in the spotlight thanks to the recent decline in crude oil prices and the weakening of gold prices. As the global Stock Market became unstable, fresh venture capitalists flocked to BTC and that would further escalate Bitcoin's growth.

Meanwhile, the New York Stock Exchange declined following the news that Gilead's Coronavirus treatment drug Remdesivir had failed, and rallied from Gilead's refutation statement. The Dow index on April 23 ended at 35.515.26, up 39.44 points (0.17%). The Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 index was 2797.80, down 1.51 points (0.05%), and the Nasdaq index was lowered by 0.63 points (0.01%) to 8494.75.