{"id":599669,"date":"2026-05-15T13:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/bitcoin-stalls-above-80k-despite-clarity-act-pass-what-will-trigger-a-breakout\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T13:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:53:09","slug":"bitcoin-stalls-above-80k-despite-clarity-act-pass-what-will-trigger-a-breakout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/bitcoin-stalls-above-80k-despite-clarity-act-pass-what-will-trigger-a-breakout\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin stalls above $80K despite CLARITY Act pass: What will trigger a breakout?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy1pbWFnZXMuY3RtZWRpYS5pby9tZWRpYS9hcnRpY2xlLWNvdmVycy9jcnlwdG8tYml0Y29pbi1mYWxsaW5nMi5qcGc=.jpg\" alt=\"Bitcoin stalls above $80K despite CLARITY Act pass: What will trigger a breakout?\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin\u2019s break above $82,000 and a return of strong institutional demand are prerequisites to confirm a trend change for BTC price.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin\u2019s (BTC) Thursday rally to $82,000, buoyed by the Senate Banking Committee&#8217;s advancement of the CLARITY Act, has stalled amid stiff overhead resistance and weakening ETF demand. Still, analysts said that BTC\u2019s upward momentum may increase if key conditions are met.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Data from TradingView showed BTC tested <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/markets\/this-bitcoin-price-level-will-be-end-of-bears-if-broken-analyst\"><span>overhead resistance at $82,000<\/span><\/a>, which has rejected the price since last week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/bitcoin-stalls-80k-despite-clarity-act-pass-what-will-trigger-breakout\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin\u2019s break above $82,000 and a return of strong institutional demand are prerequisites to confirm a trend change for BTC price. Bitcoin\u2019s (BTC) Thursday rally to $82,000, buoyed by the Senate Banking Committee&#8217;s advancement of the CLARITY Act, has stalled amid stiff overhead resistance and weakening ETF demand. Still, analysts said that BTC\u2019s upward momentum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":599670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-599669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}