Bitcoin $70K retracement part of ‘macro correction’ in bull market — Analysts

Bitcoin’s potential retracement to $70,000 may be an organic part of the current bull market, despite crypto investor concerns of an early arrival of a bear market cycle.

Bitcoin (BTC) fell more than 14% during the past week to close around $80,708 after investors were disappointed with the lack of direct federal Bitcoin investments in President Donald Trump’s March 7 executive order that outlined a plan to create a Bitcoin reserve using cryptocurrency forfeited in government criminal cases.

Despite the drop in investor sentiment, cryptocurrencies and global markets remain in a “macro correction” as part of the bull market, according to Aurelie Barthere, principal research analyst at the Nansen crypto intelligence platform.

BTC/USD, 1-month chart. Source: Cointelegraph

Most cryptocurrencies have broken key support levels, making it hard to estimate the next key price levels, the analyst told Cointelegraph, adding:

“We are still in a correction within a bull market: Stocks and crypto have realized and are pricing; a period of tariff uncertainty and fiscal cuts, no Fed put. Recession fears are popping up,” added the analyst.

Other analysts have also warned that Bitcoin may experience a deeper retracement toward the “low $70,000’s range,” which Iliya Kalchev, dispatch analyst at digital asset investment platform Nexo, told Cointelegraph could “provide a foundation for a more sustainable recovery.”

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Bitcoin’s potential retracement to the $70,000 psychological mark would still fall within the regular price movement of a bull market, according to Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX and chief investment officer of Maelstrom.

Hayes wrote in a March 11 X post:

Source: Arthur Hayes

“Then we get Fed, PBOC, ECB, and BOJ all easing to make their country great again,” added Hayes, referring to quantitative easing, a monetary policy where central banks increase the money supply by buying government bonds and other financial assets.

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Quantitative easing has historically been positive for Bitcoin price.

Bitcoin’s price rose over 1,050% during the last quantitative easing period, from just $6,000 in March 2020 to $69,000 by November 2021, after the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing policy was announced during the COVID-19 pandemic on March 23, 2020, buying over $4 trillion worth of assets such as treasuries.

BTC/USD, 1-week chart, 2020-2021. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView

Analysts remained optimistic about Bitcoin’s price trajectory for late 2025, with price predictions ranging from $160,000 to above $180,000.

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