The cryptocurrency market has been volatile over the weekend, and the volatility could continue amid strong on-chain 0 rallied to the $117k mark on Friday after Powell’s speech at Jackson Hole hinted at the possibility of an interest rate cut in September. However, the market has turned bearish since, with Bitcoin now trading around $112k. With a strong bearish trend, BTC could slip below $110k over the next few hours or 1 dips to $112k as whales migrate to Ethereum Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency by market cap, has lost more than 2% in the last 24 hours and now trades at $112,241. The bearish performance comes after BTC topped the $117k mark on 2 leading cryptocurrency experienced a flash dump late on Sunday, briefly dropping to the $111k 3 bounced back to $114k but failed to build on this momentum and has now dropped below $113k.
The negative performance came as analysts suggested that large holders were shifting their positions from Bitcoin to 4 Ruck, director at LVRG Research, pointed out that BTC’s dip is a “market recalibration” after rallying since the start of the 5 revealed that a single whale sold over 24,000 BTC over the past several days, with some analysts attributing the market’s dump to this 6 CEO Jacob King revealed that the wallet address “19D5J…WoZ1C” moved multiple bulk amounts of BTC ranging from 3,000 BTC to 6,000 BTC to different addresses across Aug. 16 to 7 King @JacobKinge · Follow JUST IN: #Bitcoin flash crash today, which wiped out $310M in long positions, has been traced to a SINGLE Bitcoin whale dumping BTC for 8 whale sold 24,000+ BTC, including coins that hadn’t moved in 5+ years, sending 12,000+ #BTC today alone to the Hyperunite trading 2:39 am · 25 Aug 2025 1.6K Reply Copy link Read 190 replies King added that most of the money is being moved into Ethereum, with $2 billion worth of Ether bought by the whale, while another $1.3 billion was 9 bearish performance also comes despite the Japanese bitcoin treasury firm, Metaplanet, disclosing on Monday that it bought an additional 103 BTC for $11.7 10 firm has now spent $1.95 billion acquiring its overall bitcoin holdings (18,991 BTC) at an average price of $102,712 per bitcoin.
Furthermore, the Philippines Congressman Miguel Luis Villafuerte proposed that the country’s central bank purchase an average of 2,000 BTC annually for five years, with a 20-year lockup 11 bill also proposes that the apex bank must not sell or trade the bitcoins for any purposes except to retire government 12 could drop below $110k as selling pressure continues The BTC/USD 4-hour chart is bearish following Bitcoin’s volatile movement over the 13 technical indicators remain bearish as the sell-off continues to affect the Bitcoin 14 RSI of 47 shows that BTC is currently heading into the oversold region if the bearish trend 15 MACD lines have also crossed over into the negative territory, suggesting that sellers are currently in 16 the bearish trend continues, BTC could drop below Sunday’s swing low of $110,560.
An extended bearish performance could see Bitcoin drop to the $107k support level for the first time since July 7. However, the market could bounce back soon, and BTC could reclaim the $114k resistance level in the coming hours or 17 the event of an extended bullish run, BTC could target the TLQ level at $117,100.
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