Bitcoin sets lower lows as 2021 BTC price resistance taunts hodlers

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A acquainted occupation presents itself to BTC markets this week arsenic $40,000 absorption proves excessively hard to adjacent attempt.

Bitcoin sets little   lows arsenic  2021 BTC terms  absorption    taunts hodlers

Bitcoin (BTC) fell further pre-Wall Street connected Feb. 3 arsenic investigation revealed aged absorption levels had returned to haunt bulls.

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

$38,600 is back

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView painted different uninspiring representation for BTC/USD Thursday, with the brace gathering caller lows of $36,275 connected Bitstamp.

After shock tech banal moves during Wednesday's trading session, the knock-on effect for crypto remained palpable arsenic large tokens struggled to stabilize.

Zooming out, fashionable trader and expert Rekt Capital revealed the country astatine $38,600 — a stumbling artifact astatine respective points successful 2021 — was erstwhile again acting arsenic a enactment successful the soil for bulls to cross.

"Indeed, BTC produced an upside wick into absorption connected its latest recovery," helium tweeted.

"For the clip being, this ~$38600 country continues to fig arsenic resistance." 
BTC/USD annotated chart. Source: Rekt Capital/ Twitter

For others, including chap trader Anbessa, it was a lawsuit of "the lower, the better" for Bitcoin, this chiming with existing expectations of a much important breakdown occurring earlier a afloat recovery.

#BTC Update

- dormant feline wrong LTF rising wedge, breakout & continuation
- existent enactment levels mid range, M-neckline & downtrending transmission (since Nov21)

The little we spell the amended r:r ratio for a caller #midterm LONG entry. Eg nuke script (right) crowded greedy introduction pic.twitter.com/nCJVcHiQjc

— AN₿ESSA (@Anbessa100) February 3, 2022

Tech banal occupation meantime erased affirmative sentiment from different macro cues, with Russia's connection to let banks to merchantability Bitcoin and India's new crypto taxation proposal taking a backmost seat.

Puell Multiple returns to classical oversold territory

Turning to on-chain metrics, it was the crook of the Puell Multiple this week to follow Bitcoin's comparative spot scale (RSI) successful printing a large "oversold" signal.

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Created by David Puell, the fashionable indicator uses miner revenues comparative to spot terms to find erstwhile the second is overly precocious oregon low.

Currently, the Puell Multiple is trending down, and already astatine its lowest since June 2021, the mid-point of a erstwhile retracement aft China banned mining.

Puell Multiple illustration (screenshot). Source: BuyBitcoinWorldwide

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