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Bitcoin Breakout Signals Bulls Have the Ball after PayPal announcement

Bitcoin officially broke out of its channel on Tuesday 18 October and once $11,463 was breached, further ascent was confirmed and underway after PayPal’s announcement.

Since, the bullish momentum has continued to build and some are again speculating a new all-time high for the space’s eldest cryptocurrency is not far off.

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Last week I wrote about a few of the largest institutional investors that have recently been piling into bitcoin. On Wednesday 21 October the crypto world was given another major and long awaited announcement, PayPal is joining the cryptocurrency ranks and will initially support trading in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash. 

Bitcoin Breakout

Chronologically the $11,463 breakout occurred before the PayPal news but the two variables in combination can definitely be attributed to bitcoin’s recent price action. 

Bitcoin had almost broken out of that structure in previous days but first had a premature breakout before back testing said structure and then inevitably breaking the structure to run to a new yearly high of $13,131.96 on Thursday 22 October.

At writing, BTC is +23.3% the last 30 days, +12.82% the last 7 days, and +1.5% last 24 hours.

Bitcoin is now down 34.1% from it’s all-time high of $19,665.39 on 16 December, 2017. One statistic that bitcoin bulls love is the fact that it took less than 30 days after BTC broke $10,000 to run nearly another $10,000 to it’s all-time high in 2017.

The current price action could also support the case that greater bullish action is yet to come. With a more gradual build up to the mid teens bitcoin could launch or go parabolic from a much higher price than the last bull market.

Bitcoin has been the world’s best performing asset over the last decade and its daily candle has now closed above $10,000 for a record 88 consecutive days.

 

R.L. Bryer
R.L. Bryerhttp://bryer.io
Since 2009, the onset of the bitcoin network, R.L. Bryer has been covering the space. He is the author of Blockchain: Project Renaissance Volume I and II. He's also been the guest of countless bitcoin and cryptocurrency related podcasts throughout the world. Every opportunity, he speaks on or writes about Austrian Economics and how bitcoin is the world's preeminent money.
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