Bitcoin moved back above $67,000 after touching $65,000, posting about a 1.1% rise on the day while the broader backdrop still includes six consecutive red monthly closes. March trading ranged from $65,000 on March 2 to $75,000 on March 17, before slipping to around $68,000 by March 23 amid heightened U.S.-Iran tensions and a $14+ billion options expiry.

Crypto markets have bounced after a volatile stretch, with Bitcoin stabilizing once roughly $14 billion in options expired and hedging-related pressure eased. Traders had been concentrated around a $75,000 max-pain level into the March 27 expiry, and the rally now hinges on whether spot demand can outlast short-covering flows.

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.