{"id":72820,"date":"2026-02-17T18:17:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=72820"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:17:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:17:56","slug":"gold-loses-momentum-why-this-could-be-good-news-for-bitcoin-btc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=72820","title":{"rendered":"Gold Loses Momentum: Why This Could be Good News for Bitcoin (BTC)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The prices of many precious metals, including gold, have declined recently, with some analysts viewing this trend as bullish for Bitcoin (BTC).<\/p>\n<p>Other factors, such as recent whale accumulation, reinforce the theory that the primary cryptocurrency could be ready to take off soon.<\/p>\n<h2>Gold Leads, BTC Follows<\/h2>\n<p>The yellow metal experienced a major pump at the start of the year, reaching a new historical peak of around $5,600 in late January. Since then, though, it has declined by roughly 11%, and today (February 17) the price dipped once again below the psychological level of $5,000.<\/p>\n<p>According to some industry participants, there is an interesting correlation between the performance of gold and that of BTC. Earlier this month, X user Merlijn The Trader <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MerlijnTrader\/status\/2021192434751861195\">noted<\/a> that in recent years, pullbacks in the precious metal have often been followed by an upswing in the cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cGold always leads. Bitcoin follows. When gold cools, profits rotate. That\u2019s when capital flows from gold into BTC,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ash Crypto spotted the same parallel. The X user <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AshCrypto\/status\/2018404417544806612\">revisited<\/a> mid-2020, a period when gold went through a sharp correction, and shortly after, the leading digital asset kicked off a bull run.<\/p>\n<p>Other market observers who believe that liquidity rotates into BTC after the precious metal loses momentum <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cryptofergani\/status\/2023688627814101324\">include<\/a> Crypto Fergani and Gargoyle.<\/p>\n<p>The latter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/degargoyle\/status\/2023752414088884356\">presented<\/a> a pattern in which the cryptocurrency tends to mirror gold\u2019s movements, albeit with its own timing. In their view, both assets pass through three stages: base building, accumulation, and pump. According to the chart, gold has completed these phases, whereas BTC has yet to enter the last one.<\/p>\n<h2>More Bullish Factors<\/h2>\n<p>Recent actions by large investors, known as whales, support an optimistic outlook for BTC, whose price has declined by almost 30% over the past month.\u00a0As <em>CryptoPotato<\/em> recently <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-whales-accumulate-as-btc-price-revisits-2024-entry-zone\/\">reported<\/a>, these market participants remain unfazed by the asset\u2019s negative performance and continue to increase their exposure.<\/p>\n<p>Whales are known as experienced players who may have insider information about forthcoming events. For that reason, some believe that their selling or buying efforts are neither random nor irrational.<\/p>\n<p>Certain indicators and price formations are also worth observing. Bitcoin\u2019s Market Value to Realized Value (MVRV), for instance, has been steadily declining recently and currently stands at approximately 1.25. It compares the current value of all BTC to the price at which people originally paid to acquire their holdings. According to CryptoQuant, ratios below 1 indicate bottoms, while anything above 3.7 signals that the top is in.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1429070\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1429070\" style=\"width: 1523px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BTC-MVRV-1.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1429070 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BTC-MVRV-1.png\" alt=\"BTC MVRV\" width=\"1523\" height=\"713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BTC-MVRV-1.png 1523w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BTC-MVRV-1-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BTC-MVRV-1-1024x479.png 1024w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BTC-MVRV-1-768x360.png 768w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BTC-MVRV-1-90x42.png 90w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BTC-MVRV-1-150x70.png 150w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BTC-MVRV-1-1400x655.png 1400w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BTC-MVRV-1-1200x562.png 1200w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BTC-MVRV-1-1000x468.png 1000w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BTC-MVRV-1-900x421.png 900w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BTC-MVRV-1-800x375.png 800w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BTC-MVRV-1-700x328.png 700w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BTC-MVRV-1-600x281.png 600w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BTC-MVRV-1-500x234.png 500w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BTC-MVRV-1-400x187.png 400w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BTC-MVRV-1-200x94.png 200w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BTC-MVRV-1-100x47.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1523px) 100vw, 1523px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1429070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BTC MVRV, Source: CryptoQuant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, the popular analyst Ali Martinez <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/top-bitcoin-btc-price-predictions-revival-to-80k-or-brutal-crash-below-30k\/\">claimed<\/a> that the asset might have formed an \u201cAdan &amp; Eve\u201d pattern on its price chart, in which a break above $71,500 could fuel a jump to as high as $79,000.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/gold-loses-momentum-why-this-could-be-good-news-for-bitcoin-btc\/\">Gold Loses Momentum: Why This Could be Good News for Bitcoin (BTC)?<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prices of many precious metals, including gold, have declined recently, with some analysts viewing this trend as bullish for Bitcoin (BTC). Other factors, such as recent whale accumulation, reinforce the theory that the primary cryptocurrency could be ready to take off soon. Gold Leads, BTC Follows The yellow metal experienced a major pump at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-72820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}