{"id":75309,"date":"2023-03-10T00:21:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T22:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=75309"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:52:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:52:03","slug":"bitcoin-price-tests-below-20000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bitcoin-price-tests-below-20000\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin price tests below $20,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leading cryptocurrency continued its correction \u2014 within a few hours, prices slid to around $20,200.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The chart below shows that the drop was accompanied by a spike in trading volume.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"497\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15m-1024x497.png\" alt=\"15m\" class=\"wp-image-200065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15m-1024x497.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15m-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15m-768x373.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15m-1536x746.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15m.png 1819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>15-minute chart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/symbols\/BTCUSDT\/\">BTC\/USDT<\/a> on Binance. Data: TradingView.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"wp-block-text-wrappers-update-2 article_update\"><time class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_time\">March 10, 2023 | 05:57<\/time><span class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_head\">Update: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin tested the $19,800 level (on the Binance exchange). As of writing, prices had corrected somewhat \u2014 the leading cryptocurrency was trading near $20,000.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTCUSDT_2023-03-10_05-53-26-1024x467.png\" alt=\"Hourly chart BTC\/USDT on Binance. Data: TradingView.\" class=\"wp-image-200070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTCUSDT_2023-03-10_05-53-26-1024x467.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTCUSDT_2023-03-10_05-53-26-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTCUSDT_2023-03-10_05-53-26-768x350.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTCUSDT_2023-03-10_05-53-26-1536x700.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTCUSDT_2023-03-10_05-53-26.png 1813w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Hourly chart BTC\/USDT on Binance. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/symbols\/BTCUSDT\/\" title=\"\">TradingView<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Digital gold pulled the rest of the market down \u2014 the most capitalized altcoins (excluding stablecoins) moved into the red zone.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gekko.webp\" alt=\"gekko\" class=\"wp-image-200066\"\/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/all-cryptocurrencies\">CoinGecko<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As of writing, Bitcoin is trading at around $20,240. The total market capitalization stands at $976 billion, according to CoinGecko.<\/p>\n<p>On March 7, the leading cryptocurrency <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-tests-22000-as-powell-signals-potential-further-fed-tightening\">fell below the $22,000<\/a> level, but later recovered somewhat. This came amid remarks by the head of the <span data-descr=\"Federal Reserve System of the United States\" class=\"old_tooltip\">Fed<\/span> Jerome Powell about a high likelihood of further tightening of monetary policy.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Vadim Shovkun, founder of the Crypto Shaman project <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/trader-predicts-further-correction-in-bitcoin-price\">predicted<\/a> the continuation of Bitcoin&#8217;s correction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leading cryptocurrency continued its correction, with prices sliding to around $20,200.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[480],"class_list":["post-75309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin-price"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"27","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75311,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75309\/revisions\/75311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}