{"id":93793,"date":"2026-05-20T12:01:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=93793"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:01:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:01:40","slug":"bitcoin-fails-at-crucial-resistance-why-is-btc-stuck-at-77000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=93793","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Fails At Crucial Resistance: Why Is BTC Stuck At $77,000?"},"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>) trades around $77,000, following $1 billion in outflows last week after a six-week inflow streak.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Bitcoin Failed At 200-Day MA On First Real Macro Shock<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Bitcoin popped above $82,000 on the CLARITY Act vote, then <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wintermute_t\/status\/2056684633937645688\">reversed<\/a> hard and now sits below the 200-day moving average at $82,200 after getting rejected five times this month. <\/p>\n<p>Support holds at $76,000-$78,000. Breaking below $75,000 opens up $70,000-$72,000.<\/p>\n<p>The weekend slide toward $77,000 triggered $657 million in liquidations, $584 million from longs.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>Ethereum<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"ETH\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ETH-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>) dropped 10%, continuing to underperform across spot and derivatives. ETH\/BTC pressed 0.0275 with funding softer and relative implied volatility elevated.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Institutions Sold &#8230;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/05\/52686538\/bitcoin-fails-at-crucial-resistance-why-is-btc-stuck-at-77000?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" fails at crucial resistance: why is btc stuck>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) trades around $77,000, following $1 billion in outflows last week after a six-week inflow streak. Bitcoin Failed At 200-Day MA On First Real Macro Shock Bitcoin popped above $82,000 on the CLARITY Act vote, then reversed hard and now sits below the 200-day moving average at $82,200 after getting rejected five times [&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-93793","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\/93793","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=93793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}