Bitcoin Drops Today While Market Optimistic About the ‘Main Bull Phase’

The most popular cryptocurrency bitcoin (BTC) corrected lower today despite positive news and generally optimistic sentiment in the market. At pixel time (17:25 UTC), BTC trades at USD 11,412, after reaching USD 11,930 earlier today. The price is down by 4% in a day, trimming its weekly gains to less than 2%. BTC is also up by 23% in a month and is unchanged in a year. Other coins in the top 10 are down by 2%-7% today. Meanwhile, among those who are openly bullish about the prospects of BTC is Dan Tapiero, Co-founder of the crypto-focused private equity fund 10T Holdings. According to him, the logarithmic chart of bitcoin “projects up 5-10x on this run,” while adding that the asset is “just breaking up now.”Also, Matt Maley, Chief Market Strategist at investment advisory firm Miller Tabak + Co, told Bloomberg yesterday that “it looks like [BTC] wants to test its 2019 highs of USD 13,800 before it sees a meaningful correction to work off this overbought condition.”Others, however, do not rule out that BTC might go even higher before a correction happens:“The level of USD 10,000 has represented a strong psychological barrier for bitcoin for the last few years. Now that barrier is broken and there are no major levels of resistance on the graph until the all- time high at USD 20,000,” Mati Greenspan, founder of Quantum Economics, told Bloomberg. Expressing a similar sentiment, the popular BTC analyst Willy Woo said that the bull market in bitcoin has really been on for some time already, while the recent rally should be considered the beginning of the “main bull phase.”Also up for discussion today was the relationship between bitcoin and ethereum (ETH), and whether a BTC move towards new all-time highs will hurt or help the price of ETH. Responding to a Twitter poll about this from Su Zhu, CEO of Three Arrows Capital, the popular BTC trader WhalePanda said:“It really depends on how bitcoin is going to pump to USD 20,000, if we're moving there with a big jump from USD 14,000 to USD 20,000 in a matter of a couple of days then definitely down. If however, we grind up it's likely that ETH will be up.”So far, ETH outperformed BTC in the past month, past quarter, and in a year by a wide margin (ETH is up by 81% in a year, while BTC is unchanged). Meanwhile, The Telegraph reported this weekend that bitcoin is on the verge of overcoming a perceived “credibility hump” among institutional investors. According to the newspaper, a British fund group with “tens of billions of pounds” under management is reportedly looking into bitcoin, saying they believe it could see a fivefold price increase by 2023 as a best-case scenario. According to the article, the fund could end up diverting up to 30% of its capital currently allocated to gold into BTC, with the fund manager reportedly saying that the investment case for gold and bitcoin is the same.


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