Edward Snowden says he feels 'itch to scale back in' to $16.5K Bitcoin
Bitcoin (BTC) returned to $16,500 at the Nov. 14 Wall Street open as bulls tried and failed to break higher.
Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD ranging below $17,000 on the day after a dismal weekly close.
The largest cryptocurrency had failed to show convincing signs of recovery after losing more than 25% the week prior thanks to the debacle around exchange FTX.
That debacle was ongoing at the time of writing, with revelations fanning out to include other firms with significant exposure to the defunct exchange.
With little light at the end of the tunnel visible, BTC price action remained unsurprisingly weak.
“Markets consolidating,” Michaël van de Poppe, founder and CEO of trading platform Eight, summarized.
Trader and analyst Rekt Capital meanwhile warned of support-resistance flips in the making thanks to the weekly close, Bitcoin’s lowest in two years.
“These are BTC Monthly levels shown on the Weekly timeframe,” he tweeted alongside a chart of important focal levels.
Other posts on the day warned of the potential for “additional downside wicking” on BTC/USD, while noting that historically, prior bear markets had still been worse in terms of the pair’s descent from cycle highs.
An interesting counterpoint came from Edward Snowden. In a tweet of his own, he signaled that he would be a BTC buyer at current levels, sentiment he last publicly posted after the March 2020 COVID-19 cross-market crash.
“There's still a lot of trouble ahead, but for the first time in a while I'm starting to feel the itch to scale back in,” he stated.
A second tweet stressed that the previous one was "not financial advice."
Stocks offered little respite to crypto bulls on the day, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite
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