- The Shiba Inu price remained in the red during the current session, with the price static at $0.000033.
- SHIB has been quite bearish lately and had dropped by over 10% on Monday.
The Shiba Inu price failed to make much headway, as the price remained static at $0.000033. SHIB had ended the weekend on a fairly positive note, as the price rose to $0.000036. However, the price dropped significantly on Monday, dropping by over 10% and settling at $0.000032. However, SHIB pushed back up on Monday, rising by 3.28%, settling at $0.000033, before dropping marginally during the ongoing session.
Shiba Inu Price Chart Indicates SHIB Could Slip Below $0.000033
The Shiba Inu price started the previous week on a positive note, rising by 1.52% on Monday. However, the price fell back on Tuesday, dropping to $0.000036, before pushing up by just over 2% on Wednesday and settling at $0.000036. However, after reaching this level, SHIB fell drastically, falling by over 6% on Thursday and settling at $0.000034. The price continued to drop on Friday, as sellers forced the price down by over 3% on Friday, with the price dropping to $0.000033.
Image: SHIB/USDT daily
After dropping by over 3% on Friday, the Shiba Inu price made a fairly strong recovery over the weekend, rising by nearly 3% on Saturday. SHIB continued to push higher on Sunday, as the price increased by over 6% and settled at $0.000036. The price fell back on Monday, falling by over 10% and dropping to $0.000032, before rising by over 3% on Tuesday and settling at $0.000033. The current session has seen a marginal fall, although the price is still at $0.000033.
We can see that the Parabolic SAR is still bearish, indicating that we could further see the price drop.
IntoTheBlock’s IOMAP for the Shiba Inu price shows us that SHIB faces strong resistance at around $0.000034. At this price level, over 11,000 addresses have sold more than 43,000 billion SHIB.
Image: IntoTheBlock
Looking at the 4-hour Shiba Inu price chart, we can see that SHIB had pushed above the 20-bar SMA on the 7th, rising to $0.000037. The price could stay at this level for the subsequent few sessions, thanks to the 20-bar SMA now acting as support. However, SHIB fell below the 20-bar SMA on the 9th, when the price dropped to $0.000034. SHIB continued to drop further from this level, dropping to $0.000033 on the 11th. SHIB pushed up from this level, rising to $0.000034, before pushing above the 20 and 50-bar SMAs on the 12th and moving to $0.000036. The price dropped significantly from this level, slipping back below the 20 and 50-bar SMAs and settling at $0.000032 before rising to its current level of $0.000033.
We can see that the MACD is bullish, indicating that we could see the price rise. However, if the price continues to drop, we could see it flip back to bearish.
Image: SHIB/USDT 4-hour
“Ask The Doctor” Converts Some Of Its Balance Sheet To ETH And SHIB
Ask The Doctor, a Canadian healthcare service firm, is continuing to make itself stand out from the crowd, this time by converting more of its balance sheet from fiat to crypto. Through partner firms, Ask The Doctor provides various services like telemedicine consults and medical procedures.
Prakash Chand is a co-founder and CEO of Ask The Doctor. He also seems to be an advocate for crypto. In fact, in April 2016, HuffPost spoke to Chand, as well as Dr. Michael Warner, who was the Chief Medical Officer at the time, about the firm’s acceptance of crypto (Bitcoin and five other cryptocurrencies) as a means of payment.
When they were asked why the firm had started accepting Bitcoin, Warner replied:
“Our customers share with us privileged and sensitive information. Until we added Bitcoin, our services had to be purchased using a Credit Card or Paypal. To some, having a banking paper trail documenting a transaction with “Ask The Doctor” did not provide them with a sufficient level of privacy.
They added that another reason to offer Bitcoin payments was to maximize accessibility to their services.
“Two-thirds of our customers are women and we have customers in every country in the developing world. Our overall goal is democratize access to health care, and offering Bitcoin is consistent with this goal.“
As for the question of what was the firm’s vision, Chand said:
“Our goal is to replace users using Google and WebMD for medical advice. At the end of the day nobody can give a better answer to your medical question than a trained General Physician and/or Specialist.“
Last month, Ask The Doctor confirmed that it would add support for the three most popular dog meme cryptocurrencies: Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, and Floki Inu.
Crypto Whales Are Bullish On SHIB
Crypto whales are capitulating on the current downward price correction of the Shiba Inu (SHIB) token to buy more of the meme coin. An Ethereum whale recently shelled out $4.2 million to buy over 125 billion SHIB tokens, per Etherscan.
The price of the dog-based meme coin has continued to struggle since surging 833.6% in October to set a new all-time high. The months of November and now December are currently showing negative gains for SHIB as its current price is around over 60% lower than its all-time high price of $0.000087.
Regardless, cryptocurrency whales have continued to load up on SHIB. In the past few weeks, SHIB has been the most dominant holding among the top 1000 Ethereum wallets being tracked by WhaleStats. Its dominance stands at around 7.8% as the wallets hold nearly $1.5 billion worth of SHIB cumulatively at the moment.
One other significant whale buy was from a wallet that has been named “Hulk” that bought over $290 million worth of SHIB in a series of transactions made over a few days. According to WhaleStats, the wallet holds around $490 million of SHIB tokens (over 13 trillion SHIB tokens).
The SHIB buying spree indicates the amount of adoption the meme coin has enjoyed since coming to the limelight this year. The Dogecoin-inspired Shiba Inu has continued to gain recognition from institutional investors of late.
Shiba Inu Price Is Expected To Reach These Levels
Looking at the Shiba Inu price chart, we see that SHIB has fallen back during the ongoing session, after an increase of over 3% on Tuesday. If the current sentiment persists, we could see SHIB slip below $0.000033. However, if the price recovers, we could see it test resistance at $0.000034.