Latest Bitcoin price and analysis (BTC to USD)

Bitcoin is currently trading at $34,620 following a 6.75% correction from a local high of $37,750 over the past 24-hours.

The world’s largest cryptocurrency is now on the brink of breaking a diagonal trendline dating back to early December, although it’s worth noting that there have been wicks below this region despite no candle closes.

Anything between a four-hour or daily candle close below this trendline, which is currently at $35,230, would indicate a period of continuation to the downside.

However, there are still a number of key levels of horizontal support to the downside, notably $34,400 and $30,000. Both of these regions will likely provide Bitcoin with short term relief.

The recent plunge in price has been attributed to uncertainty around Tether’s situation with the NYAG, with a one-month extension being requested over their submission of documents.

BTCUSD chart by TradingView

On the contrary, from a technical perspective the reason for the correction seems to be more closely related to a lack of bullish momentum to the upside, with a clear lower high being formed as well as a bearish cross on the weekly stochastics.

It’s important to remember that even in 2017, when Bitcoin surged from less than $2,000 to $20,000, it often suffered corrections of more than 30% as those taking profits wiped out liquidity to the buyside.

Bitcoin can slump to as low as $27,000 and still remain bullish on higher time frames, while the likes of Ethereum and Litecoin will most likely mimic Bitcoin’s trajectory.

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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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