BTC price gains 4% pre-Fed as MicroStrategy vows to protect Bitcoin from $21K crash
Bitcoin (BTC) saw classic “choppy” price action on May 4 with hours to go before fresh Federal Reserve cues.
Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed BTC/USD as it bounced between support and resistance after hitting $37,600 Tuesday evening.
A subsequent bounceback saw the pair clip $39,000 at the time of writing, providing relief to low-timeframe traders at 4.1% off the lows.
More broadly, however, Bitcoin stayed rangebound and beholden to macro triggers as markets braced for Fed-induced volatility.
The two-day meeting of the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) and press conference was due to begin at 2pm Eastern time Wednesday.
With little to comfort bulls, some turned to historical comparisons. The start of the Fed’s previous cycle of key interest rate hikes in 2015 proved a turning point for BTC price strength, this culminating in the December 2017 blow-off top.
What happened last time the FED came up with a lot of subsequent rate hikes after being zero for a long time?$BTC entered the 2017 bullmarket. pic.twitter.com/lmcIoxXrvN
“BTC is now testing a multi-week resistance,” popular trader and analyst Rekt Capital meanwhile concluded about the daily chart following the uptick above $39,000.
Elsewhere, amid growing calls for a “capitulation” style event to put in a fresh macro bottom on BTC/USD, contingency plans were also becoming conspicuously more vocal.
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MicroStrategy, the company with the world’s largest Bitcoin corporate treasury, went as far as to say that it would up its Bitcoin buys in such a scenario.
Speaking on its Q1 earnings call, Phong Le, the firm’s president and chief financial officer, also
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