BTC price battles 200-week moving average after $930M Tesla Bitcoin sale
A key trendline which the Bitcoin price passed for the first time in over a month is currently seeing its first retest as support. Bitcoin (BTC) staged its first test of critical support on July 21 as news that Tesla had liquidated most of its Bitcoin holdings subsided. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewBitcoin bulls attempt to flip key trendline to supportData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD focusing on the $22,800 zone after dropping from multi-week highs of $24,280 on Bitstamp.The pair had reacted swiftly but comparatively modestly....
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The eccentric billionaire polled his Twitter followers but already had the sale planned due to tax obligations. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has offloaded more than one billion dollars worth of shares according to recent financial filings. Filings submitted on Nov. 11 to the Securities and Exchange Commission confirm the sale of more than 934,000 Tesla shares worth around $1.1 billion.Musk sold the shares at an average price of around $1,170, locking in almost 180% in gains in prices over the past year. It is just the third time Musk has sold company stock since Tesla went public on the Nasdaq in....
News of Elon Musk selling Tesla shares has rocked the market lately. The billionaire had sold a total of 2.15 million shares valued at $5 billion on Thursday. The sale comes after a widely received poll that the Tesla boss had earlier set up on Twitter to ask the community what they think about him selling off the shares. At the time, the stocks Musk had proposed to sell had been worth around $25 billion. After the poll went live, it had garnered over 3.5 million votes, with the majority saying that he should sell off the shares. It was a close call though as only 58 had voted in favor of....
Tesla's Bitcoin stash is now worth $1 billion more than when Elon Musk approved the purchase in February. Tesla's (TSLA) bold foray into the Bitcoin (BTC) market has been paying off in 2021 as BTC price rallies in October to hit over $58,000 on Oct.14.Tesla currently holds roughly 43,200 BTC, worth roughly $2.5 billion at today's prices, according to online monitoring resource Bitcointreasuries.net. This is approximately 65% or $1 billion more than what the carmaker paid in February when Elon Musk's company revealed that it added $1.5 billion in BTC to its balance sheet.BTC/USD daily price....
The analyst also treats the latest crypto ban in China as bullish for Bitcoin and the U.S. dollar. Bitcoin (BTC) has better probability of recovering back to $60,000 than to break below its current support level of $30,000 and target $20,000, believes Mike McGlone, senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence.A screenshot from McGlone's latest analysis on the flagship cryptocurrency, first shared by Bloomberg's senior ETF analyst, Eric Balchunas, shows him comparing Bitcoin's ongoing price action with the "too-cold" period of the 2018-19 trading session. In detail, the BTC/USD....
Up until the recent recovery, Bitcoin appeared headed for a bear market. The market seemed convinced a peak occurred back in November, and that would be it for some time. However, a “heatmap” of the 200-week moving average might indicate that the top cryptocurrency still has a cycle peak ahead – and will go out with a blaze of glory. Bitcoin Bull Run Embers Could Ignite Into New Flames To many investors who were expecting Bitcoin price to be at $100,000 or more to close last year, the number one cryptocurrency by market cap has come up significantly short. The once widely cited....