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Bitcoin closes weekly candle above 50-week moving average for first time

The signal comes as Bitcoin is up nearly 10% on the week and pushes through $86,000, with one more weekly close cited as a potential confirmation step.

Bitcoin just posted its first weekly close above the 50-week simple moving average this cycle, a technical shift highlighted by Bitcoin Magazine as a historically meaningful line between bull and bear regimes.

In the segment, Sean Hagan and Grace Remington describe why the 50-week moving average has mattered in past market transitions, and they note roughly 80% confidence that the move represents a genuine regime change.

The discussion also points to what would confirm the signal, including the idea of one additional weekly close, and it reviews the only two times in Bitcoin history where the indicator did not hold.

Bitcoin Magazine further tied the timing to the “one-year window” between a prior all-time high and the cycle bottom, while noting the price move as Bitcoin rose nearly 10% on the week and pressed through $86,000.

Latest closeBitcoin $85,554.46 ▼0.7%

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