Bitcoin is currently flirting with a potential break down in price below the $17,600 level of support after losing momentum on all lower time frames just short of $20,000.
The world’s largest cryptocurrency remains bullish on all higher time frames, which suggests that an all-time high push in Q1 of 2021 is on the cards.
However, in the short term it would not be a surprise to Bitcoin test the prior lows at $16,400. If it bounces before reaching this level it would form a crucial higher low, indicating that the bull run still has room to extend higher.
Key levels of resistance to look out for are $18,250 and $18,600. If Bitcoin can surge and break above these levels on heavy volume, a re-test of at least $19,400 seems increasingly likely before the end of the month.
It’s worth noting that Bitcoin is a volatile asset by nature and that even during the bull market in 2017, corrections of up to 30% were commonplace.
A correction of 30% from the local high at $19,800 would see Bitcoin test the original breakout point at $14,000, which may also be in confluence with the daily 200 simple moving average.
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About Bitcoin
In August 2008, the domain name bitcoin.org was registered. On 31st October 2008, a paper was published called “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”. This was authored by Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin. To date, no one knows who this person, or people, are.
The paper outlined a method of using a P2P network for electronic transactions without “relying on trust”. On January 3 2009, the Bitcoin network came into existence. Nakamoto mined block number “0” (or the “genesis block”), which had a reward of 50 Bitcoins.
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