The suspense is killing us.<\/p>\n
For the past several weeks, the price of Bitcoin has been dancing just above the $30,000 support level\u2013sometimes dipping below and occasionally making strong moves toward the $40,000<\/p>\n
Bank Account Alternative. Business Account IBAN.<\/strong><\/p>\n But every time Bitcoin seems to make a decisive move one way or the other,\u00a0it\u2019s only a matter of hours before BTC retreats to familiar territory: price levels around $31K, $33K, $35K with no clear path forward.<\/p>\n Bitcoin\u2019s relative stagnancy around this level has caused a bit of division amongst analysts attempting to predict what could happen next. Some believe that BTC is just moments away from regaining its losses and riding a rally to $60K and beyond by the end of the year. In June, some analysts have predicted that BTC could reach as high as $200,000 by the end of 2021.<\/p>\n However, not everyone is so optimistic. If Bitcoin falls to sustained levels below $30K, some analysts believe that BTC may be in for a prolonged depression before any upward movement is possible. Thus, Bitcoin seems to be in a rather precarious position: while BTC seems fairly stable above $30K, movement below $30K could lead Bitcoin to new lows. So what\u2019s next for Bitcoin?<\/p>\n \u201cIf Bitcoin drops below $30K for more than a few hours, it will cause a worldwide panic from traders and people searching for places to buy BTC,\u201d said Kelan Kline to Finance Magnates. Kline is a personal finance expert and co-founder of The Savvy Couple,<\/p>\n A prolonged movement below $30K could essentially trigger a series of events that closely resemble what happened to Bitcoin markets in May of this year: \u201cExchanges will be under extreme pressure with too many customers on the website at once, causing market instability in both fiat and cryptocurrency markets.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen it’s trading time in Asia, Bitcoins liquidity could be significantly lower as traders would follow suit of selling their bitcoins off as well, which would create an even larger waterfall effect on the global financial system.\u201d<\/p>\n One point of possible positive news for Bitcoin is the fact that it actually did briefly fall below $30K earlier this week\u2013and it did not trigger a new wave of liquidations, as some believed it would.<\/p>\n In fact, some analysts see the drop below $30K as a sort of non-event: Marco Van Den Heuvel, Head of Community at decentralized search engine Presearch, told Finance Magnates that \u201cThis dip honestly did not come as a surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBreaking $30,000 pretty much indicated we would see $28K levels, followed by hopeful support and a bounce. Which is what we saw starting just now, back to $31,500,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n In fact, Van Den Heuvel pointed out that any further drops below $30K could be a good thing for Bitcoin\u2019s price levels in the long term. After all, the price drops may present opportunities for longer-term hodlers with \u201cdiamond hands\u201d to scoop up BTC at a discount.<\/p>\n \u201cThey are key levels in which a lot of buys are waiting to scoop up ‘cheap’ Bitcoin,\u201d Van Den Heuvel said. \u201cPersonally, I believe we’re trading around support levels now for Bitcoin, whereas altcoins can still see another 30-40% decrease in price if bitcoin dominance actually attempts the 50% retest and successfully breaks it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cRealistically, we haven’t lost all gains in 2021,\u201d he continued. \u201cBitcoin is trading around January 2021 levels, as are many altcoins. I feel like this event puts many people back into reality; making money is ‘easy, but keeping it is a different skill. It requires stone-cold decision making, rather than being permanently bullish.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cRisk management is important. It’s also clear how much speculation there is still in this space, and how people’s emotions take over, resulting in a [downward] spiral of events.\u201d<\/p>\n How deep is this downward spiral? \u201cTo me, current sentiment shows we’re hopefully close to a bottom,\u201d he said. \u201cMany people that capitulate now may not find their lower buy orders hit.\u201d<\/p>\n Indeed, under current market conditions, Bitcoin may not be poised to drop anytime soon\u2013but negative news could bring a new round of bearish movements to BTC.<\/p>\n Ben Reynolds, the founder of Sure Dividend, pointed out to Finance Magnates that Bitcoin is still reeling from negative news that hit the headlines in May: \u201cChina has recently cracked down more on crypto by banning more crypto-related social media accounts on Weibo,\u201d he said, adding that Elon Musk’s twitter drama\u00a0may have influenced Bitcoin.<\/p>\n Reynolds also pointed to \u201cthe FBI reclaiming the millions of dollars worth of bitcoin from the pipeline ransom hackers group,\u201d which he said \u201c[proves] that governments can still manipulate it even when it\u2019s not regulated, which could have some investors who prefer to question their investments.<\/p>\n These pieces of news\u2013and any other negative reports that could come out soon\u2013may continue to wash out new money from bitcoin markets. \u201cAny new investors who are susceptible to emotion and fear clouding their investment decisions might be the ones who pull out and cause BTC to drop below $30K,\u201d Reynolds said.<\/p>\n On the other hand, positive news updates about Bitcoin could act as a boon for crypto prices\u2013and positive developments are underway: \u201cBusinesses are developing bitcoin ETFs, allowing customers to buy, sell, and checkout by using crypto. The FBI used it to reclaim a ransom and also strengthened its ability to become more mainstream.\u201d<\/p>\n And while $30K seems to be Bitcoin\u2019s \u201cmagic number\u201d of the moment, Kirobo chief executive Asaf Naim pointed out that BTC analysts and investors often become fixated on certain price points.<\/p>\n \u201cWe all know that investors can panic when they see an asset fall below the price they consider symbolic,\u201d Naim told Finance Magnates. But let’s not forget that these numbers are arbitrary – back in 2017, $20,000 was considered the magic number for Bitcoin.\u201d In the years between 2018 and 2020, it was all about Bitcoin\u2019s so-called \u201ccurse of $10,000.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThen in April of this year, it topped $63,000, and now $30,000 is considered the bottom,\u201d Naim continued.<\/p>\n Indeed, Bitcoin\u2019s big price rally from November of 2020 until May of 2021 reset the global mindset about where Bitcoin should be price-wise. Before the chain of liquidations that sent the price spiralling in May, some analysts and investors believed that a steady price above $50K could soon be Bitcoin\u2019s new \u201cnormal\u201d\u2013however, BTC has failed to regain enough momentum to sustain levels above $40K for weeks.<\/p>\n Now that the latest round of hype seems to be over, the conversation around Bitcoin seems to be shifting away from how big BTC will be and back towards how it can and will be useful to the world.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that if people would focus on the very real, practical applications of decentralized technology instead of obsessing over whatever mood Bitcoin has decided to be in on a given day, they’d find that the fundamentals of the crypto market as a whole are rock-solid,\u201d Naim told Finance Magnates.<\/p>\n \u201cFrankly, I think that investor fixation on every little price fluctuation is derailing the ecosystem from what it’s supposed to be doing – upgrading the way the world transacts through decentralized technology.\u201d<\/p>\nWould a move below $30K trigger another wave of leveraged Bitcoin liquidations?<\/h2>\n
“We haven’t lost all gains in 2021.”<\/h2>\n
BTC sales by “weak-handed” hodlers could give way to purchases by longer-term investors<\/h2>\n
“Investor fixation on every little price fluctuation is derailing the ecosystem from what it’s supposed to be doing.”<\/h2>\n