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The flagship cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, dropped below the $63,000 mark in the last 24 hours and is currently on a price correction, having recently hit a new all-time high (ATH) of $73,750. This price dip is believed to be due to several factors, including the Bitcoin Halving, which is fast approaching.\u00a0 Bitcoin Price Is In The Second Phase Of The Halving Trend Crypto trader and analyst Rekt Capital recently provided insights into the four phases of Bitcoin Halving, which provides a plausible explanation for Bitcoin\u2019s recent decline. He suggested that Bitcoin was entering into the \u2018Final Pre-Halving Retrace,\u2019 having just concluded with the \u2018Pre-Halving Rally.\u2019 Related Reading: Solana Surpasses Ethereum In Major Metric Amid Surge Above $200 This \u2018Final Pre-Halving Retrace\u2019 is said to occur 28 to 14 days before the Halving event. However, it looks to have come earlier this time around (just like the Pre-Halving Rally), with the Halving still about 30 days away. Rekt Capital alluded to the Pre-Halving retrace in 2016 and 2020 when Bitcoin pulled back by 38% and 20%, respectively.\u00a0 Bitcoin has already pulled back over 11% in the past week. Interestingly, the analyst noted that this phase of the Halving can last \u201cmultiple weeks and up to 77 days.\u201d Rekt Capital, however, expects it to be much shorter than historical ones. He added that this year\u2019s Pre-Halving Retrace \u201cwould more likely be on the shallower side than on the deeper side.\u201d Long-Term Bitcoin Holders Are Taking Profit Alex Thorn, Head of Research at Galaxy Digital, highlighted in an X (formerly Twitter) post that long-term Bitcoin holders are starting to sell. This is evidenced by different metrics, such as the movement in coins that had stagnated for over a year.\u00a0 Crypto analyst Ali Martinez previously alluded to this wave of profit-taking, noting data from market intelligence platform Glassnode, which showed that those holding over 1,000 BTC were increasingly cashing out. This has also led to a 4.83% drop in this category of BTC addresses this past few weeks.\u00a0 Thorn, however, sounded optimistic about Bitcoin\u2019s future trajectory in his post, noting that new whales are entering (through the Spot Bitcoin ETF market) as some others are exiting. He also suggested that some of these whales aren\u2019t exactly leaving the market but selling their spot BTC and investing in Bitcoin ETFs instead.\u00a0 Bitcoin Sentiment Is Currently Bearish Data from Coinglass shows that the bears currently have the upper hand, with almost $82 million in long positions liquidated in the last 24 hours compared to just about $23 million of shorts liquidated during the same period.\u00a0 Related Reading: Shiba Inu Open Interest Suffers 40% Crash, What Does This Mean For Price? There has also been a decrease in open interest on these exchanges, which suggests that traders are choosing to stay out of the market at the moment. Therefore, activity in the derivatives market shows that the current outlook for Bitcoin is bearish, with many still expecting further declines.\u00a0 At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at around $63,000, down over 4% in the last 24 hours according to data from CoinMarketCap.\u00a0 BTC bears reclaim control of price | Source: BTCUSD on Tradingview.com Featured image from Analytics Insight, chart from Tradingview.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":594,"featured_media":598659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[428,656,679,91882,1119,89185,1122,1144,78790],"class_list":["post-598654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bitcoin","tag-bitcoin-news","tag-bitcoin-price","tag-bitcoin-price-perofrmance","tag-btc","tag-btc-news","tag-btc-price","tag-btcusd","tag-btcusdt"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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