Bitcoin (BTC) slipped after failing to hold above $68,800 and is consolidating below $68,000 following a drop from above the $70,500 area. The move saw price test the $65,000 zone with a low at $65,030, while the chart shows resistance near $67,250 and $68,500. If BTC cannot reclaim $68,500, support levels highlighted include $65,750, $65,000, and $64,200.

Bitcoin fell below $65,000 and printed an intraday low of $64,785 on Bitstamp, before rebounding to $66,778 by 8:25 p.m. Eastern on Sunday. Over the past 24 hours, 86,277 traders were liquidated for $278 million, including $234 million in longs, with more than $100 million in BTC longs and roughly $85 million in ETH longs wiped out. The broader crypto market slipped 0.58% to $2.28 trillion as U.S. stock futures turned lower and oil rose to $103.

Joao Wedson of Alphractal highlighted $60,490 as a critical Bitcoin level tied to Binance's Reserve Realized Price, warning that a break below it could put much of the exchange's BTC reserve at an unrealized loss. He noted BTC recently slipped to around $65,000 (down 5.14% over seven days) before consolidating near $66,000, while the metric sits about 9% below current levels.

Bitcoin has remained below the realized price that excludes inactive supply for two months, leaving $72,500 as near-term resistance and adding pressure on holders. Short-term realized price is at $82.3k, while short-term holders' realized losses have stayed above $300 million per day, including a $372 million loss reported on March 29.

Since the rollout of Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, about $56 billion has entered BTC-focused products, a shift Bitmine CEO Tom Lee says is reshaping how large investors think about preserving wealth. At the Futu Investment Exhibition, Lee challenged gold’s inflation-hedge reputation and said historical data shows gold has lagged inflation roughly 48% of the time over the past 55 years.

Bitcoin remained volatile heading into the weekly close, trading around $66,500 after falling more than 8.5% over the past two weeks and attempting to reclaim $67,000. Michael Saylor promoted Strategy's perpetual preferred shares STRC (Stretch), saying its 30-day volatility was 2% while offering an 11.5% annual dividend yield since March 2026. He also said STRC is being used as a key funding route to buy BTC during pullbacks, with a longer-term goal of reaching 1 million BTC.

Bitcoin traded at $66,759 on March 29, 2026 around 9 a.m. Eastern time, moving within a 24-hour band of $66,266 to $67,185. The market cap was $1.33 trillion and 24-hour volume totaled $23.11 billion as price sat near short-term support. Technical readings showed subdued trend strength and mixed momentum, leaving direction uncertain.

Bitcoin is trading around the $66,000 area and remains above the short-term holder (STH) realized price, a level some analysts view as important for near-term sentiment. The market has been in a drawdown since October 2025, with BTC down 52% from the cycle's all-time high, while on-chain metrics cited by CryptoZeno point to softer selling pressure. At press time, BTC was $66,748, up 1.04% in 24 hours, as daily volume fell 53.48%.