Two days ago, I laid out the scenario after Bitcoin flushed from $97K into the $60K region.

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The idea was simple: let the panic burn itself out, wait for price to tap the 65–66K demand pocket, and execute there.

The $66K limit is now filled.

Here’s how I see it now — what’s changed and what hasn’t.

Context: This was a liquidity event.

The drop from $97K to $60K wasn’t random volatility. It was a structural unwind.

Months of leverage buildup.

Compressed volatility.

Key higher-timeframe levels breaking.

Liquidations accelerating the downside.

When a cascade like that happens, price usually overshoots fair value and sweeps liquidity below obvious supports. That’s exactly what we saw into 65–66K.

That zone wasn’t random. It lined up with:

A prior consolidation base

A visible liquidity cluster

A short-term exhaustion move

The first meaningful reaction demand since the breakdown

That’s why I had bids sitting there.

Current structure: impulse → compression.

Bitcoin isn’t in freefall anymore.

Now we’re seeing:

Smaller-bodied candles

Slowing downside momentum

A developing local range above 64K

Early signs of absorption

This is what stabilization looks like after a vertical move.

But stabilization doesn’t automatically mean reversal.

The market is deciding whether this turns into:

A relief rally inside a broader correction

or

The foundation for rotation back toward prior breakdown levels

The real test: 80–83K.

Nothing structurally changes for me unless BTC reclaims 80–83K.

That area is:

Former support

Fresh supply

The origin of the breakdown

A psychological reclaim level

If price pushes into that zone and gets aggressively rejected, this becomes a textbook lower high within a corrective phase.