$BTC 🔹 What is Bitcoin?

✅ First decentralized cryptocurrency, launched in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto

✅ Fixed supply: 21 million coins (scarcity = digital gold)

✅ Uses Proof of Work (PoW) for security via mining

✅ Designed as a peer-to-peer money system but now also a store of value

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📈 Why $BTC Matters

🪙 Most traded crypto — drives the whole market

🔗 Acts as the base pair for many altcoins

📊 Macro barometer — often reacts to inflation data, rate hikes, global financial news

🛡️ Considered a safe haven during altcoin crashes

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📉 What Moves Bitcoin’s Price?

Factor Impact

Macro news (interest rates, inflation, recession talk) BTC reacts like a risk asset in most scenarios

Halving events (every ~4 years) Cuts new supply in half — often followed by bull runs

ETF approvals (e.g. BlackRock, Fidelity) Institutional entry = demand spike

Exchange flows Coins moving off exchanges = bullish signal

Whale activity Large buys/sells shake price quickly

Global regulations Bans/FOMO from governments cause volatility