Bitcoin (BTC) sat near $77,000 today, clawing back part of a slide that took it under $76,500 earlier in the week after fresh US-Iran strikes spooked the markets.<\/p>\n
Analysts are now split on whether the dip was a shakeout before another push higher or the first sign of a deeper pullback.<\/p>\n
Analyst NoName is watching the CME futures gap above the current price and considers<\/a> $83,000 the line that decides what happens next.\u00a0They wrote that Bitcoin needs \u201cthe level that separates a real reversal from another relief rally\u201d with a daily close above it backed by real spot volume.<\/p>\n Without that close, they are treating the recent bounce as a retest of old supply rather than confirmation of a new uptrend, and their downside case is blunt: if $83,000 rejects and $74,000 gives way, they see room for a drop toward $50,000 to $55,000 before Bitcoin finds a real bottom.<\/p>\n But not everyone is reading the chart that way, including Doctor Profit, who dismissed<\/a> calls for a new low outright, saying, \u201cI consider the bear market as over.\u201d<\/p>\n Another market watcher, Sykodelic, pointed to the monthly candle instead of shorter timeframes, citing<\/a> the reversal structure, a bullish tick on the DSS Bressert indicator, and a flattening MACD.<\/p>\n He called the setup \u201cnot bearish, and never been bearish,\u201d and said the monthly close held above the $76,400 level he had flagged as the line between confirming the reversal and voiding it.<\/p>\n Behind the argument sits a rough week. As CryptoPotato<\/em> reported previously, Bitcoin got turned away<\/a> at $79,000 more than once before the latest leg down pushed it under $76,500 for the first time since August 23, with renewed US-Iran fighting being the main trigger. You can hear more about that in the video below:<\/p>\n\n The primary cryptocurrency is now changing hands above $77,000, having traded between $76,300 and $77,800 in the last 24 hours. It\u2019s down almost 2% for the week but still up nearly 22% for the month.<\/p>\n The pullback follows a month that broke a pattern, with BTC closing<\/a> August up almost 25%, the first green August during a bear market stretch comparable to 2014, 2018, or 2022, when it fell between 9% and 18% at the same point in each cycle.<\/p>\n It was also the asset\u2019s best August since 2017, when the month closed up more than 65%. Furthermore, the third quarter is already up close to 33%, with one month left to go.<\/p>\n That doesn\u2019t change where Bitcoin sits against its cycle high, though. It remains down close to 30% for the year and more than 38% below its October 2025 peak of over $126,000, with dominance currently above 57%.<\/p>\n The post Bitcoin Could Crash to $50K if Bulls Fail This Crucial Test: Analyst<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bitcoin (BTC) sat near $77,000 today, clawing back part of a slide that took it under $76,500 earlier in the week after fresh US-Iran strikes spooked the markets. Analysts are now split on whether the dip was a shakeout before another push higher or the first sign of a deeper pullback. Traders Watch the $83,000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}August\u2019s Rare Green Candle Complicates the Picture<\/h2>\n