Bitcoin dices with $46K as Elon Musk Twitter buy sends Dogecoin near 2-month highs

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Bitcoin (BTC) traded successful uncertain territory connected April 4 arsenic the Wall Street unfastened failed to unleash bullish continuation.

BTC/USD 1-hour candle illustration (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView

Trader gives $43,000 BTC near-term dip target

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD dipping supra and beneath the $46,000 people Monday, continuing a low-volatility fewer days.

The brace had managed to seal a 2nd week adjacent the 2022 yearly open, with analysts already hoping for a breakout to $50,000 oregon adjacent beyond.

At the clip of writing, however, determination was inactive nary motion of specified an outcome, portion Bitcoin stuck to an progressively constrictive low-timeframe trading range.

"Bitcoin is not truly wide to me; it could beryllium due to the fact that of a precise dilatory play which is disturbing a spot my view," fashionable trader Crypto Ed summarized successful his latest YouTube update connected the day.

Highlighting a falling diagonal absorption trendline, Crypto Ed reasoned that a imaginable pullback could travel arsenic aboriginal arsenic Monday, resulting successful Bitcoin reversing to $44,800 oregon deeper to adjacent $43,000 should that not hold

The diagonal, helium added, was keeping $50,000 retired of scope for the clip being.

Fellow trader and podcast big Scott Melker was tentatively hopeful, noting that Bitcoin was being rejected astatine the 200-day moving average.

"Rejected astatine the 200, meandering down to $45,500; we should beryllium heading up," helium said successful a Twitter broadcast Monday.

"Let's anticipation that whales bash not determine to dump connected america conscionable due to the fact that determination is simply a conference."

Melker was referring to the Bitcoin 2022 lawsuit successful Miami from April 6-9, a large gathering of immoderate of the Bitcoin world's best-known names.

Dogecoin rebound follows Musk's $3 cardinal Twitter spend

On altcoins, the battalion was led by Dogecoin (DOGE) connected the day, which outpaced each the large cryptocurrencies acknowledgment to a classical publicity boost from Tesla CEO, Elon Musk.

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After the billionaire revealed that helium had bought a 9.3% involvement successful Twitter, making him the largest shareholder successful the company, DOGE/USD was the wide beneficiary successful crypto, climbing astir to its highest levels successful 2 months.

DOGE/USD 1-day candle illustration (Binance). Source: TradingView

Musk's determination was the effect of a survey held connected Twitter itself, successful which conscionable implicit 2 cardinal respondents told him that "free code principles" were not being upheld by the firm.

The consequences of this canvass volition beryllium important. Please ballot carefully.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 25, 2022

Other Twitter enactment successful caller days meantime continued Musk's nonstop enactment with the Dogecoin community.

As Cointelegraph reported, inflows to altcoins implicit the past week underscored accrued appetite for what on-chain analytics steadfast Glassnode called "riskier" altcoins.

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