BTC price demands $63K flip as BlackRock CEO calls Bitcoin ‘legitimate’

Bitcoin battled $63,000 at the July 15 Wall Street open as traders looked for signs of further upside.

BTC price downtrend “over” — analyst

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed bulls holding firm as daily gains totaled 3.5%.

Now up 10% since the start of the weekend, Bitcoin spawned fresh hopes of a full return of the bull market after weeks of sideways action punctuated by liquidation cascades downward.

“Bitcoin $BTC could be unfolding its often-repeated Hump…Slump…Bump…Dump…Pump chart construction,” popular trader Peter Brandt suggested on X, referring to the length of the corrective phase.

“Jul 5 attempt at double top was bear trap, confirmed by Jul 13 close. Most likely scenario now is that bears are trapped. Close below $56k negates this interpretation.”

Others were more decisive about BTC/USD making a firm break with its prior behavior, among them popular trader and analyst Rekt Capital.

“The Bitcoin Downtrend is over,” he told X followers on July 15.

A further chart uploaded to X came alongside an assertion that “history repeated itself” in terms of price action after Bitcoin’s latest block subsidy halving in April.

“The final phase of the BlowOffTop has begun!” economist Henrik Zeberg, head of macro at crypto analysis firm Swissblock, announced.

Zeberg contributed a daily BTC/USD chart, which included a much anticipated bullish divergence on relative strength index (RSI) values.

BlackRock’s Fink doubles down on Bitcoin commitment

Beyond markets themselves, Bitcoin bulls got a fresh boost on July 15 from a now familiar macro source: Larry Fink, CEO of the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock.

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In an interview with CNBC on July 15, Fink reiterated his newfound “belief” in Bitcoin, confirming that he had changed his mind about it in the last five years. 

“As you know, I was a skeptic. I was a proud skeptic,” he told the network.

“And I studied it, learned about it, and I came away saying, ‘OK, you know, my opinion five years ago was wrong.’ Here’s my opinion today, this is what I believe in today. I believe the opportunity today.’”

Fink added that Bitcoin, specifically, was “legitimate.”

BlackRock currently operates the world’s largest spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) by assets under management.

Reacting to the interview, Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas said that it is “hard to overstate how big a deal it is for Larry Fink, who runs $10.6T, to keep giving these full throated endorsements of bitcoin as legit asset class for everyday portfolios.”

“Buy in from BlackRock – as well as other legacy firms like Fidelity – gives boomer advisors comfort and cover to make the allocation,” he wrote on X.

“That’s why betting against, or minimizing the clear-to-anyone-with-eyes-and-a-brain early success of, these ETFs has been and will be dumb IMO.”

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