{"id":73605,"date":"2026-02-23T17:16:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=73605"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:16:40","slug":"bitcoin-holds-65000-but-a-new-death-cross-looms-ominously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=73605","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Holds $65,000, But A New Death Cross Looms Ominously"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Bitcoin <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) is consolidating around $65,000, but traders are watching a potential death cross that could determine the next move.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Is This Bitcoin&#8217;s Final Leg Down?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Bitcoin is approaching a potential 3-day death cross between its 50-day and 200-day simple moving averages, a signal that crypto analyst Ali Martinez <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/alicharts\/status\/2025647325931053265\">says<\/a> has historically preceded the final leg of bear markets.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back to 2013, 2017 and 2021, Bitcoin had already suffered steep declines before each 3-day death cross appeared.<\/p>\n<p>In every case, the signal was followed by another sharp drop of roughly 45% to 52%, marking final capitulation before a macro bottom formed.<\/p>\n<p>After peaking &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/02\/50789675\/bitcoin-holds-65000-but-a-new-death-cross-looms-ominously?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" holds but a new death cross looms ominously>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is consolidating around $65,000, but traders are watching a potential death cross that could determine the next move. Is This Bitcoin&#8217;s Final Leg Down? Bitcoin is approaching a potential 3-day death cross between its 50-day and 200-day simple moving averages, a signal that crypto analyst Ali Martinez says has historically preceded the [&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-73605","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\/73605","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=73605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}