Bitcoin is being pushed back toward $70,000 as macro pressures ease, but each attempt is still selling. Although the market is improving externally, important internal constraints remain unresolved.
Macro easing improves backdrop as Bitcoin encounters congested zone above $70,000
Bitcoin started April on a cleaner macro background than the one that defined the final period in March.
Oil’s war premium fell, with Brent falling to $99.44 and WTI to $97.55, following reports that the US could withdraw from Iran within weeks if a peace deal progresses. The currency market also reflected the same cooling, with the dollar index falling to 99.534.
Interest rates have softened ahead of this week’s major U.S. macro events, with two-year Treasury yields near 3.76% and 10-year Treasury yields near 4.28%. This combination has historically improved the operating environment for risky assets, including Bitcoin.
The price was accommodating. Bitcoin price traded around $68,724 on April 1st, after fluctuating between roughly $66,000 and $69,2000 during the day.
While these numbers appear subdued at the daily close, the underlying structure is more tense than the flat range would suggest. Although the market has emerged from full-blown macro panic, there is still not enough widespread and sustained demand to turn easing into expansion.
The result is a compressed setup where a more friendly external background meets thinner belief near the trading hot resistance zone.
Why this is important: Separates environment from execution. Although the macro environment has become more supportive, prices are still falling at the same level. This gap is typically closed in one of two ways. Either demand expands enough to absorb supply, or repeated rejections turn into more severe setbacks. The next move is determined by which side yields first.
The key level in that equation remains $70,000. Glassnode’s recent market analysis shows that Bitcoin has struggled to secure a clean close above that area since early February. The report showed that realized profit momentum has shrunk by about 63%, indicating that the appetite for chasing highs has waned.
The pressure point comes from a group of recent buyer trading decisions. Glassnode has identified a cost basis of approximately $70,000 for holders with coins that are between one week and one month old, placing dense blocks of supply directly overhead. When the price reaches that zone again, participants who bought the breakout often become sellers once they return to breakeven.
Even if the macro background improves, its structure can lead to repeated rejections.
This puts Bitcoin within an unusually clear weekly window. Oil prices have retreated from their highs, the dollar has weakened and yields have fallen. Each of these shifts reduces the pressure by one layer.
But moving above $70,000 still requires new demand that can absorb supply from recent entrants and late buyers. This requirement is at the heart of the market’s current posture.
A strengthening macro environment has once again opened the door to further upside. Market structure still requires evidence.
The next stage will depend on how these layers interact. Lower geopolitical premiums for oil may continue to ease inflationary stress. A weaker dollar could improve margin liquidity conditions. Lower yields could support a wide range of risk appetites.
Bitcoin still trades through its own internal constraints: concentration of overhead supply near the breakout zone. In that sense, the market is heading into a week where the external environment improves and internal testing becomes more difficult.
The differences will shape Friday’s pay announcement and the rest of the weekend.
Neutral funding, compressed volatility, and light leverage keep Bitcoin waiting for a change in confidence
The most powerful fresh signals inside cryptocurrencies come from the derivatives complex. Perpetual funding usually has a clear positive tilt as traders pay to hold long-term exposure during stronger directional advances. That attitude is starting to collapse.
Coinalyze data shows Bitcoin open interest is close to $20.1 billion, average funding is around -0.0046%, and expected funding is close to +0.0002%. This configuration represents a near-neutral derivatives market.
The positive carry associated with the crowded bullish positioning is thinning rapidly. Reset has two meanings. First, leverage has already been wiped out to a significant degree. Second, the market is no longer so tilted in one direction that funding alone will reveal the next move.
This reset becomes even more significant when combined with recent liquidation activity. Coinalyze puts the 24-hour liquidation value at nearly $48.6 million, which is relatively modest considering the range Bitcoin has traded over the past few sessions.
Post-liquidation markets often enter a cleaner positioning state with fewer forced participants in the way and the next move unfolding. The decrease in open interest after a leverage flush also changes the nature of the market.
Subsequent moves often come from a base that has already been de-exposed.
Volatility data supports a similar view. According to Glassnode’s Implied Volatility Series, Bitcoin was at 52.32 on April 1, a level consistent with compression after a period of significant macro-driven volatility. Recent market commentary has also noted that realized volatility has fallen from around 80 to just over 50.
This type of compression often precedes an expansion, especially as expiration-related flows move through the market and directional traders begin to rebuild. This setup presents the conditions for even bigger moves once a convincing catalyst arrives.
Daytime activities add another layer. Although the path within each session has become more volatile, the daily closing price remains relatively quiet. Bitcoin has maintained a wide range, but has become more volatile during the day.
This pattern points to a market with fragmented confidence behind the scenes. Traders remain active but are not looking for broad directional consensus until the close. This condition often occurs near turning points, where one team has lost momentum and the other team has not yet secured control.
Markets are no longer under pressure from leverage or macro shocks. The only open question is whether buyers will have enough power to clear the $70,000 supply zone.
The buyer exhaustion argument applies to this structure, but it needs refinement. Broad-based demand is thinning out at higher levels, rather than disappearing altogether. Spot flow data support that narrow conclusion.
Figures for the Pharcyde US Spot Bitcoin ETF show that flows have improved after a drawdown in late March, going from -$225.5 million on March 27th to +$69.4 million on March 30th and +$117.5 million on March 31st. CoinShares also reported weekly Bitcoin inflows of $790 million.
Although the marginal purchasing power above $70,000 has faded, demand still exists below that level. This difference explains why a decline can find support and why a rally keeps stalling around the same zone.
The market is therefore in a reset phase defined by three related conditions: leverage is reduced, volatility is compressed, and confidence above resistance remains incomplete. Each condition narrows the field for the next move.
Traders looking for clear signals from funding are finding neutrality. Investors looking for evidence of structural demand are finding it in ETF flows, but they haven’t yet reached the scale to eliminate overhanging supply in one go.
This setup is more about hesitation than panic. In practice, the arrival of macro data often results in a more binary response.
Payrolls, oil and yields define next test as Bitcoin moves into macro-sensitive weekend
The decisive trigger this week is the US labor market. The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the employment situation for March on Friday, April 3 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time. Consensus forecasts tracked by major media outlets call for about 60,000 new jobs and an unemployment rate of 4.4%.
The forecast was confirmed after weaker data on the labor force and confidence. In February, the number of job openings decreased to 6.9 million and the number of employees decreased to 4.85 million, the slowest employment pace since April 2020. Consumers are also showing signs of nervousness.
The Conference Board’s March Consumer Confidence Index fell to 91.8 and its Expectations Index fell to 70.9, levels often associated with recession risk.
These readings directly form the macro frame around Bitcoin. A weaker jobs report could reinforce the recent decline in yields and put further pressure on the dollar, a situation that typically supports rare and liquid risk assets. This path would ultimately give Bitcoin a cleaner opportunity to test whether demand can absorb a $70,000 overhang.
A stronger report would yield different results. Yields have rebounded, the dollar has strengthened, and the sense of relief from low oil prices could quickly fade. In that case, Bitcoin would face macro headwinds as well as a dense resistance zone formed by recent buyers.
Another wrinkle on the calendar. Friday’s data will be released on a holiday-influenced schedule, with many traditional markets closed on Good Friday while crypto trading continues.
This order raises the possibility that Bitcoin will be one of the first places where the market reacts to payroll payments in real time heading into the weekend. Its meaning is practical. Macro data could hit dilution in the cross-asset environment, and Bitcoin could be the first liquid expression of repricing before other major markets reopen.
During periods of geopolitical tension and changing interest rate expectations, the timing effect can amplify movements that would otherwise appear more cautious.
Crude oil remains an external variable. If Brent prices stay below $100 and WTI stays below the psychologically important triple-digit zone, the inflationary impulses that dominated last week will continue to ease. That would support the combination of a weak dollar and low yields, which is already starting to reemerge.
If oil prices rise again, the pressure chain linking energy, inflation expectations, interest rates and the dollar will be reinstated. Bitcoin has already shown that it trades quickly up its macro ladder. Over the past 24 hours, the balance of risk has shifted towards easing, with oil prices falling and bond yields falling rather than rising.
As for Bitcoin itself, the weekly map is now relatively clean. Supporting forces are aligning, leading to easing oil, a weaker dollar, lower yields, healthier ETF inflows, lower leverage, and compressed volatility. On the other hand, limiting forces exist in thin marginal demand above $70,000, a dense block of breakeven supply from recent buyers, and a derivatives complex that has not rebuilt strong directional conviction.
The interaction between these pillars shapes the current shape of the market. This is a decision phase, not due to widespread panic, but due to a lack of decisive control from either side.
Therefore, the next test is clearly visible. If payroll and follow-through macro pricing maintain current relief conditions, Bitcoin could challenge the cap on a cleaner basis than a few sessions ago.
The next move is Now it’s tied to a clear trigger. If payroll consolidates current yields and dollar easing, Bitcoin will eventually test whether demand can absorb the $70,000 supply block. If macro pressures flare up again, there is a risk that the same level of rejection will turn into a more sustained reaction. Levels are defined. Catalyst is scheduled. What remains unresolved is whether demand is ready to take control.
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