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BTC price should see a serious shake-up in the coming days, but Bitcoin market participants are increasingly worried it will be to the downside. Bitcoin (BTC) threatened fresh downside over the weekend as markets geared up for the July 23 candle close. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView $19,000-$23,000 "still on the cards" for Bitcoin Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed acting below $30,000, now set as intraday resistance. July 22 saw a brief dip to $29,640 before a recovery in time for the daily close, but trader s remained worried that worse was to come. https://t.co/GY0AgGbAnn — Crypto Chase (@Crypto_Chase) July 22, 2023 “So we have a double top rejection currently on BTC, so we need to really make a note of levels incase we drop,” popular trader Crypto Tony warned Twitter followers in fresh analysis of the 3-day chart. “Those two levels are $25,000 & $20,000, and these are both key psychological levels. Make a note.” BTC/USD annotated ...

Bitcoin may celebrate no matter what the Fed decides on interest rates, but the extent of longs that would be liquidated below $20,000 has one analyst worried. Bitcoin (BTC) may “take out shorts” to crack $30,000 during the day’s key United States macroeconomic policy updates, analysis says. As bets pile up over how BTC price will react to the Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rates, $30,000 is in sight — but a drop to below $20,000 is not off the table. Trader plans $30,000 profit-taking Bitcoin is hours away from what popular trader Crypto Tony calls “one of the most anticipated” Fed meetings ever. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will decide on how to tweak baseline Interest Rates on March 22, amid suspicions that the ongoing U.S. banking crisis has disrupted policy. From ongoing rate hikes forecast just last month, Markets are now considering the chances that the Fed will pause the cycle, data from CME Group’s FedWatch Tool shows. Fed target rate probabilities chart. ...

Within 24 hours of the job posting, 45 applicants have shown interest in joining the federal government to build an in-house CBDC. The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is looking for a software engineer to help develop and implement system s related to a central bank digital currency (CBDC). On Feb. 18, the San Francisco Fed posted a job opening for a “senior application developer - digital currency.” The candidate is expected to aid the Federal Reserve in designing and implementing systems critical to CBDC research. Revealing its intention, the Fed’s post read: “Given the dollar’s important role, Federal Reserve System seeks to further understand the cost and benefits of the potential technologies for central bank digital currencies, and how the system better understand this emerging field.” Key responsibilities include developing systems related to CBDCs, identifying improvements and mitigating risks, to name a few. The job location is in San Francisco, California, with a base...

The crypto trading firm sees NFTs becoming more intertwined with brand IP, while Web3 apps with "real world utility" gain traction. Despite an eventful year fraught with crypto collapses and price drops, Steven Goulden, a senior research analyst at crypto trading firm Cumberland has pointed to several “green shoots” to break the surface in crypto in 2023. In a 14-page “Year in Review” report released on Dec. 24, Goulden said he saw four “ emerging narratives ” in 2023 that will lead to “significant progress” for crypto over the next six to 24 months. These include non-fungible tokens (NFTs) becoming a “go-to method” of tokenizing a brand's intellectual property (IP), Web3 apps and games becoming “genuinely popular,” while Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) could become more commonly used as a nation’s reserve asset. In 2023, we anticipate that we’ll see meaningful green shoots break the surface in several key areas, which will pave the way for significant progress in the...