Analysts say Bitcoin price “needed a breather” before chasing new highs
Bitcoin price trades below $45,000 and analysts say the “almost uninterrupted run-up of the last two weeks” meant BTC was overdue for a slight correction. The high-flying optimism generated earlier this week when Bitcoin and altcoin prices rose was tempered on Aug. 12 as BTC dropped below $43,000. This led some analysts to warn that the price action seen over the past week was nothing more than a dead cat bounce. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that an early morning wave of selling pushed the price of Bitcoin (BTC) to a low of $43,752 and at the time of writing....
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