July 4 (Cointime) - Bitcoin's price has reached a year high due to improved investor sentiment and a surge of spot ETF applications by top US-based asset managers. Analyst Katie Stockton predicts that Bitcoin's price could spike to $36,000, citing Bitcoin's recent breakout and a decline in the volatility index as signals for potential rallies.

July 4 (Cointime) - BitBoy Crypto, a well-known crypto analysis channel, has made a bullish prediction for Bitcoin, suggesting that it could potentially reach $140,000. The channel's analyst, AJ, believes that Bitcoin's distinct position as a non-security digital asset and its pioneering status in the market will help it consolidate its share of the crypto market in the coming years.

July 4 (Cointime) - Major investors, known as "whales," have made significant investments in options contracts for Ethereum and Bitcoin, leading to abnormal activity in the crypto space.

July 4 (Cointime) - According to crypto analytics firm Santiment, large Bitcoin holders, known as whale and shark addresses, have been accumulating BTC at a higher rate than usual over the past seven weeks.

July 4 (Cointime) - According to CoinShares, institutional investors have been primarily focused on Bitcoin over the past two weeks, with $310.6 million of inflows into Bitcoin-related products. This represents 98% of all digital asset flows, and is a reversal from the previous nine weeks of outflows.

July 4 (Cointime) -Bitcoin Ordinals Launchpad platform Luminex has announced the launch of a new ordinal collection standard: BRC-69, which can can reduce the costs of inscriptions for Ordinals collections by over 90% and launch collections with an entirely on-chain pre-reveal process.

July 4 (Cointime) - According to economist and crypto analyst Alex Krüger, Bitcoin could experience strong rallies in the near future. Krüger highlights the significance of the BlackRock spot BTC exchange-traded fund (ETF) application and notes that Bitcoin has a liquidity air pocket between $31,000 and $37,000.

July 4 (Cointime) - Bitcoin reached its highest price in over a year on Monday, with a 2.4% increase to $31,250. BlackRock's resubmission of its application for a Bitcoin ETF caused its shares to surge. Despite crises in the past year, Bitcoin's price has risen by 62%.

July 4 (Cointime) - According to Glassnode, Bitcoin transfer volume has increased to $4.56 billion recently, but is still significantly lower than the 2021 all-time high. The entity-adjusted transfer volume has been going up recently, which is a positive sign for the sustainability of the current rally. However, the current transfer volume is still 65% lower than the norm during the 2021 bull market. Bitcoin is currently trading around $30,600, up 1% in the last week.

July 4 (Cointime) - Katie Stockton, founder and managing partner of Fairlead Strategies, predicts that Bitcoin could reach $36,000 despite only a 0.7% increase in the past week. Stockton attributes this potential rise to a recent base breakout on Bitcoin and a decline in the volatility index.