BTC Price Fights The $9,600 Level One More Time

The Bitcoin price news today show that the ‘lighting Bitcoin’ is still below $9,700 but is safely fighting off the $9,600 levels for one more time. On February 20, the price of the most dominant coin dropped by around 9% which was seen as a move that caught investors off guard. However, the BTC price fights the $9,600 level and does not let bears pull it beneath it.

Before this, we saw Bitcoin trading at $10,200 and in that range. However, the situation backfired and the most dominant coin reversed. At the time, the ARK Invest analyst Yassine Elmandjra tweeted that the $1,000 price drop was the fifth largest correction to occur on the timeframe since 2017.

Today marks Bitcoin's fifth largest hourly price drop in price history.

A ~$1000 drop in under an hour.

The only other time we've seen a greater dollar price drop is at the Dec. 2017 peak.

Data via @coinmetrics pic.twitter.com/5l0eOehKu4

— Yassine Elmandjra (@yassine_elman) February 19, 2020

Ever since the sharp downside move, BTC price fights multiple levels. What is interesting is that everyone is trying to pinpoint the main source of the flash crash and a lot of analysts came with theories.

The lighting Bitcoin which was seen above $10,200 is not here anymore and many are trying to locate the reason for that. A handful of theories have arisen in that manner and some attributed the drop in the cryptonews and the volatility now to the consecutive unplanned Binance exchange outages which halted trading on the platform and prevented traders from being able to log into their accounts.

Other analysts like filbfilb said that there is a shortage of Tether (USDT) at Binance which contributed to the current market conditions. In his Telegram-based channel, the analyst noted that this USDT shortage possibly shows that the majority of traders were in long positions, an observation which was supported by the decreasing pace of Bitcoin’s momentum and the liquidation of $120 million leveraged longs at BitMEX.

Regardless of the reasons for this, we can see how BTC price fights off new levels every day. The drop to $9,346 certainly shook a lot of investors from their Bitcoin and altcoin positions and the current state of the market is negatively impacting the investors’ bullish sentiment. Still, many are choosing to wait and see how the situation will unfold and if there will be a clear signal that a bottom has been reached.

At press time, the price of Bitcoin is at $9,667 with a 1% increase on the day.