Bitcoin: is another crash coming?

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For the past three days, the price of Bitcoin seems to want to break below the support set around $110,000. 

Will there be another crash?

This hypothesis indeed seems at least plausible, but there is at least one element that suggests the opposite hypothesis might actually be true. 

The Bitcoin Crash

Monday, October 6, 2025, the price of Bitcoin marked a new all-time high, rising above $126,000.

Already the next day, however, it had dropped below $121,000, even if only momentarily. 

Thursday the 9th not only had it fallen back below $121,000, but it also ended up touching $119,000, albeit only momentarily. 

On Friday the 10th, however, there was a real crash. 

However, it was a crash divided into two distinct moments. 

The first one, lasting just over six hours, was characterized by massive forced liquidations of long positions. When long positions are forcibly liquidated, the underlying is instantly sold at market price, increasing the selling pressure. 

The crash last Friday was of such magnitude that the selling pressure literally skyrocketed, so much so that the price of BTC dropped well below $110,000, starting from around $121,000.

As soon as that initial phase characterized primarily by sales generated from the forced liquidations of leveraged long positions was over, the price of Bitcoin immediately bounced back above $114,000, but it was an ephemeral rebound. 

If nothing else, however, that rebound initiated the second phase, which is still ongoing, characterized instead by volatile lateralization precisely between $110,000 and $115,000.

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The Key Threshold

At this moment, therefore, the key threshold seems to be $110,000.

To tell the truth, on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th that threshold was breached on the downside, but these were really minor breaches, and of very short duration. In the following days, however, it has always held, at least for now. 

In particular, starting from yesterday, there have been three attempts to break it downwards, and a fourth might be underway today. 

It is not certain that this threshold must necessarily hold, but a deep and lasting breach of it could simply end the lateralization period that began after the post-crash rebound.

Gold

At this moment, the real issue seems to be the gold market

Indeed, starting from Monday, a mini-speculative bubble seems to have inflated on the gold price, particularly with the abundant surpassing of the $4,000 per ounce mark. 

It is possible that this mini-bubble, in order to sustain itself, is also draining capital from other markets, and one of these should be the Bitcoin market. 

Therefore, a gold price that remains very high (now above $4,200 per ounce) actually prevents the price of Bitcoin from recovering, and indeed seriously risks pushing it below $110,000, thus ending the lateralization period of recent days. 

However, speculative bubbles are always destined to burst sooner or later. At this moment, it is not 100% confirmed that a mini-speculative bubble on gold has formed starting from Monday, but it actually seems quite difficult to maintain prices above $4,200 per ounce for long. 

It is not even possible to predict when this mini-bubble might burst, although in theory it seems unlikely that it could remain intact until next Monday or Tuesday. 

In the event of a breakout, there would be capital outflows from the gold market, which could partially flow into the Bitcoin market.