Bitcoin on a bullish streak in January 2023: All that’s positive for the king coin so far

On Jan 18, 2023

Bitcoin may shortly match its historic 15-day winning streak if its upward price trend persisted.
Around the $21,450 and $21,500 levels, Bitcoin appeared to come up against a significant obstacle.

If its upward price trend continues, the first cryptocurrency in the world, Bitcoin [BTC], will soon match its historic 15-day winning run. The longest price change in Bitcoin’s history occurred on November 2013, lasting for 15 days.

Now, a decade later, BTC was close to breaking its 2013 record, as the king coin was 14 days into its winning streak at press time. Consequently, it reached four-month highs.

₿REAKING: #Bitcoin price has increased 14 days in row — A single day away from making a historic new record! pic.twitter.com/qclJhikcds
— Documenting ₿itcoin 📄 (@DocumentingBTC) January 17, 2023

In addition, as the price of the leading cryptocurrency soared from the $16,000 level seen on December 2022 to its $21,000 press time mark, major investors of Bitcoin gathered $4.4 billion worth of the asset.

What is happening around Bitcoin?

Bitcoin shark addresses holding between 10 – 100 BTC were the first to start stockpiling. They added 105,600 coins worth more than $2.2 billion in just 10 weeks and stopped the decline of BTC by around $16,000.

Then, as the price of the cryptocurrency recovered to trade at $18,000 over the following eight weeks, smaller Bitcoin whales bought about 67,000 BTC, amounting to more than $1.4 billion. The price of the cryptocurrency then rose to $21,000 as larger whales gathered 37,100 $BTC—worth more than $800 million at the time of writing—in just 10 days.

BTC has increased by about 25% over the last seven days, largely due to growing investor optimism that inflation is declining and the economy will fall softly.

The price struggle continues

The $21,500 barrier area saw an attempt at an upside break in the price of bitcoin. BTC, however, could not accelerate past the $21,500 region. The price has reached a high of around $21,679 and is currently gradually falling. On the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair, a significantly bullish trend line with support close to $21,100 was broken.

The price of bitcoin may continue to decline if it was unable to overcome the $21,500 resistance. On the downside, there is near-immediate support in the $21,100 region.

Near the $20,900 zone and the 100 hourly SMA is the next significant support. Currently, the major support is building near the $20,500 mark, below which the price might quickly decline to $20,000. The cost could reach $19,500 if there are any additional losses.

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Source: Trading View

It makes sense that the FTX crisis caused the correlation between Bitcoin stocks to decline. It was a localized occurrence that had a significant impact on the price of cryptocurrencies.

But the fact that it not only started again but then reached a record high tells two things: It suggests that Bitcoin might be able to quickly overcome the FTX crash. That practically appeared as a blip on the correlation charts. So, generally, and over the long haul, Bitcoin is bullish. Markets are aware that Alameda-FTX, not Bitcoin, was to blame for the incident.

This article first appeared on ambcrypto.com.