{"id":601241,"date":"2026-05-18T22:52:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/bitcoin-lost-its-hold-on-80k-but-three-events-may-send-it-back-sooner-than-markets-expect\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T22:52:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:52:58","slug":"bitcoin-lost-its-hold-on-80k-but-three-events-may-send-it-back-sooner-than-markets-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/bitcoin-lost-its-hold-on-80k-but-three-events-may-send-it-back-sooner-than-markets-expect\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin lost its hold on $80K, but three events may send it back sooner than markets expect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy1pbWFnZXMuY3RtZWRpYS5pby9tZWRpYS9hcnRpY2xlLWNvdmVycy9oaS13aGF0LWlzLWltcGVybWFuZW50LWxvc3MtYW5kLWhvdy10by1hdm9pZC1pdDItMi5qcGc=.jpg\" alt=\"Bitcoin lost its hold on $80K, but three events may send it back sooner than markets expect\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin positions itself for a rally above $80,000 after Strategy&#8217;s $2 billion BTC buy, crumbling investor confidence in the US Treasury and a potential US-Iran deal.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin (BTC) faced a rejection following a failed attempt to break above $82,000 on Thursday. A subsequent retest of the $76,000 level on Monday triggered $400 million in liquidations for bullish Bitcoin positions over a four-day period. While traders\u2019 confidence took a hit from the 7% price decline, the prospects for recovering the $80,000 mark remain valid.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/content\/pasted-image-765.png\" width=\"1193\" \/>\n      <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/bitcoin-lost-its-hold-on-80k-but-three-events-may-send-it-back-sooner-than-markets-expect\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin positions itself for a rally above $80,000 after Strategy&#8217;s $2 billion BTC buy, crumbling investor confidence in the US Treasury and a potential US-Iran deal. Key takeaways: Bitcoin (BTC) faced a rejection following a failed attempt to break above $82,000 on Thursday. A subsequent retest of the $76,000 level on Monday triggered $400 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":601242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-601241","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\/601241","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=601241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}