Bitcoin further extended its rally on Friday as bulls got stronger against bears, with BTC price rising over $67,000. The market value of Bitcoin climbed over $1.32 trillion amid a renewed positive sentiment in the crypto industry after cooling CPI inflation and Fed Chair Jerome Powell denied stagflation and other related concerns. Is further upside possible or another leg down next?
US stock market indexes rose after traders embraced that slowing inflationary pressures restored the possibility of a September rate cut, while strong corporate earnings further boosted confidence.
BTC price jumps 3% to over $67,000, with a weekly run of more than 10%. The 24-hour low and high are $64,613 and $67,459, respectively. Moreover, the upsurge coming in comparatively low trading volumes indicates whales and big investors turned bullish on Bitcoin, along with the liquidation of high-leveraged positions.
CoinGlass data indicates more than $130 million were liquidated across the crypto market in the last 24 hours. Bitcoin saw nearly $45 million in liquidation, with $31 million in short positions liquidated. Most of the liquidation happened in the last few hours.
Over 42K traders were liquidated and the largest single liquidation order happened on crypto exchange BitMEX as someone executed a trade of XBTUSD valued at $4.80 million.
CryptoQuant founder Ki Young Ju said Bitcoin is the middle of a bull cycle. On-chain data Growth Rate Difference signifies the bull cycle should end by April next year.
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Popular analyst Rekt Capital revealed that Bitcoin price is now out of post-halving “danger zone”. He predicted BTC price to start rallying toward $150,000.
Bitcoin options traders made more calls for a strike price as high as 70,000, with some even having calls for $80,000 for May 31 monthly expiry.
Furthermore, Santiment data indicates the sentiment has shifted toward Bitcoin after the sudden jump over $66,000. Chainlink also joined Bitcoin to witness bullish sentiment, with traders anticipating a further rally in the next coming weeks.
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