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During the Covid-19 global pandemic, Bitcoin skyrocketed to its ATH of around $69k. Global markets were closed to minimize the spread of the contagious pandemic. In a bid to bolster struggling economies, most governments ended up printing more money, as observed in the United States, which offered several fiscal stimuli in trillions of dollars.

As the Covid related constraints reduce exponentially worldwide, central banks are working to counter the high inflation by raising interest rates. For instance,

“There’s still some distance for Japan to see inflation sustainably and stably meet the BOJ’s 2% target. Big improvements must be made in Japan’s trend inflation for the BOJ to shift towards monetary tightening,” incoming Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Monday.

In Europe, ECB president Christine Lagarde confirmed that the EU would continue to raise interest rates until the inflation returns to 2 percent.

We will raise interest rates as high as needed to return inflation to our 2% target in a timely manner, President @Lagarde tells The @EconomicTimes in India. Our decisions will be data dependent. It will take what it will take.

Read the full interview https://t.co/SBZDP5wnSD pic.twitter.com/LSpNRhqQhq

— European Central Bank (@ecb) February 27, 2023

Consequently, economists forecast Bitcoin price is headed for the worst in the coming quarters.

Bitcoin Price Analysis

Bitcoin price rallied approximately 42 percent in January, but the momentum has since faded after gaining just 2 percent in the past four weeks. Following the recent Bitcoin price correction, analysts believe the bulls must hold on to this crucial level to secure a further rally. Otherwise, the asset could be forming a head and shoulder pattern on the daily time frame, which depicts an imminent correction.

Scenario I´d be looking at, right now for #Bitcoin.

Rejecting at crucial $23.8K level would indicate that we´ll be having another test of the support.

If that sweep happens and we reclaim, $25K test is inevitable and longs are triggered. pic.twitter.com/qwVEwAyTrY

— Michaël van de Poppe (@CryptoMichNL) February 27, 2023

The potential risk of Bitcoin price retesting last year’s bottom has more traders taking profits and exiting at a high rate. According to on-chain firm Santiment, more Bitcoin traders are selling at a loss than a profit.

#Bitcoin & #Ethereum are both having more traders sell at a loss than at a profit this week, the first such week so far in 2023. Historically, once the crowd is exiting their positions more frequently at a loss, bottoms are more likely to form. https://t.co/maEg5sDHM6 pic.twitter.com/0kvPUzbTQm

— Santiment (@santimentfeed) February 26, 2023