Tanya Abrosimova
Independent Analyst
- IOTA is one of the worst-performing coins since the beginning of the year.
- International police arrested a suspect behind a large-scale IOTA theft.
IOTA, now the 13th largest digital asset with a market value of $824M, had an unhappy start of the year losing nearly 20% of its value since the 1st of January. The coin is changing hands at $0.2978, mostly unchanged on a day-over-day basis.
Meanwhile, Europol has released information that the international police had arrested a suspect behind $11.4M worth of IOTA coins theft. According to the investigation reports, the hacker created and promoted a malicious seed-generator iotaseed.io to get assess to the wallets of IOTA owners who used his service.
IOTA’s technical picture
IOT/USD needs to return above psychological $0.30 handle to improve its short-term technical picture. However, sustainable growth is hardly possible as long as the coin stays under DMA50 (currently at $0.3131). Once a viable move above the said level will unleash its bullish potential and set the stage for further recovery towards $0.3245 (the lower border of the previous range, and to $0.3343 (January 19 high).
On the downside, the initial support zone is seen at $0.2920-$0.2890. It includes the lowest level of the previous day ($0.2913) and the recent low ($0.2890). Once below, the sell-off may be extended towards $0.2720, which is low the lowest level of 2019.
IOT/USD, 4-hour chart
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