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Quick Take
  • Bitcoin’s (BTC) 200-week moving average has climbed past $61,000.
  • Blockstream CEO Adam Back flagged the threshold on May 30, weeks after noting the same indicator crossed $60,000 in early May.
  • The indicator has risen roughly $1,000 in under a month, a pace that reflects steady absorption of supply by long-term holders at current price levels.
  • The 200-week moving average smooths nearly four years of weekly Bitcoin closes.

What Happened

In a follow-up post, Back cited a remark attributed to the late Charlie Munger, a popular American billionaire investor.

Market Context

The indicator has risen roughly $1,000 in under a month, a pace that reflects steady absorption of supply by long-term holders at current price levels.

At the time of writing, BTC was trading well above this level. It maintained a significant gap between the spot price and the 200-week moving average first, highlighted by Back in early May.

The 2022 bear market remains the only period where BTC closed a weekly candle below the line before quickly reclaiming it. The long-term bullish structure has trended higher in every cycle since.

Back has made that case in prior posts, consistently advocating for disciplined accumulation strategies rather than active trading.

Why It Matters

Bitcoin’s (BTC) 200-week moving average has climbed past $61,000. Blockstream CEO Adam Back flagged the threshold on May 30, weeks after noting the same indicator crossed $60,000 in early May.

The implicit argument is that Bitcoin holders willing to apply Munger-style patience at moving-average lows could see outsized returns over full cycles.

The post Adam Back Flags Bitcoin’s 200-Week Average as a Structural Bull Signal appeared first on BeInCrypto.

Details

A Rising Long-Term Floor

The 200-week moving average smooths nearly four years of weekly Bitcoin closes. It has served as a support floor at each of Bitcoin’s prior cycle bottoms, and crossings of major thresholds draw sustained attention from long-term holders watching the structural trend.

Munger’s Argument, Applied to Bitcoin

Apparently Charlie Munger would agree generally “If all you ever did was buy high-quality stocks at the 200-week moving average, you would beat the S&P 500 by a large margin over time. The problem is, few human beings have that kind of discipline”

Back attributed the comment to Munger, then added a caveat. He noted that Munger and Buffett “never got bitcoin,” drawing a parallel to their early dismissal of the internet. He attributed both misses to their preference for physical businesses.

The indicator rises gradually across cycles, meaning entries near it have historically represented a structural discount to Bitcoin’s long-term trend.

Whether the 200-week moving average sustains its current climb depends on whether institutional and retail demand continue to outpace selling. On-chain data has supported the case that structural buying remains intact for now.