JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co. CEO Jamie Dimon said competitive lending and elevated 
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crisis, urging vigilance even as banks operate under stricter rules. Dimon 
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An analyst has pointed out how Bitcoin could be approaching a death cross 
between the 50-day and 200-day SMAs on the 3-day chart. Bitcoin Is Potentially 
Nearing A Death Cross On The 3-Day Timeframe In a new post on X, analyst Ali 
Martinez has talked about a death cross on Bitcoin&#8217;s 3-day price chart. A 
&#8220;death cross&#8221; popularly refers to a bearish signal produced by a crossover 
between two simple moving averages (SMAs) of an asset. Typically, a death 
cross involves the longer SMA moving above the shorter one. In the context of 
the current topic, the SMAs of relevance are the 50-day and 200-day versions. 
Related Reading: Bitcoin Capitulation Persists As Short-Term Holders Realize 
$0.48B Daily Losses Below is the chart shared by Martinez that shows the 
pattern displayed by these two SMAs for the 3-day Bitcoin price. As is visible 
in the graph, the 50-day SMA of the 3-day Bitcoin price saw a cross under the 
200-day SMA in each of the last three cycles. All of these crossovers preceded 
bearish price action. More specifically, the 2014 crossover led to a drawdown 
of 52.19% for the asset, the 2018 one to 50.56%, and the 2022 one to 45.91%. 
Interestingly, these price declines all led to the bottoms of their respective 
bear markets. &#8220;Since 2014, the death cross between the 50 and 200 simple 
moving averages on the 3-day chart has consistently preceded the final leg 
down of a Bitcoin $BTC bear market,&#8221; noted the analyst. Jumping to the 
present, BTC has faced a bearish shift in recent months with a notable 
drawdown in its price. This has resulted in the 50-day SMA witnessing a 
decline toward the 200-day SMA. As a zoomed-in chart shared by Martinez in 
another X post shows, there is now not much distance left between the 50-day 
and 200-day SMAs of the 3-day Bitcoin price. If the two lines continue to 
follow the current trajectories, the analyst has estimated that a death cross 
could occur on February 27th. Given the past trend, such a death cross could 
take Bitcoin into its final leg for the bear market. It only remains to be 
seen, however, whether the current cycle will actually follow a similar 
pattern or if it will show divergence. Related Reading: Another $438M In 
Crypto Longs Gone As Bitcoin, Altcoins Pull Back In some other news, the 
Realized Profit/Loss Ratio has slipped into the loss region recently, as on- 
chain analytics firm Glassnode has highlighted in an X post. In the past, a 
shift toward loss realization on the Bitcoin network has generally lasted for 
over six months before a return of liquidity has occurred. BTC Price Bitcoin 
has erased some of its recent recovery over the past couple of days as its 
price is now trading around $63,300. Featured image from Dall-E, chart from 
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Enhanced ID checks at crypto ATMs may deter fraud but could also impact user 
privacy and transaction speed, influencing broader industry practices.
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