Why bitcoin didn't experience the massive pullback many expected and hit $8k

On June 10, the bitcoin price spiked by nearly $600 in a two-hour span, showing big momentum during a phase in which technical analysts anticipated a pullback to hit the crypto market.

In the bull market of 2017 and prior to that, the market primarily relied upon the spot market and exchanges, many of which portrayed inflated or incorrect volumes.

In its latest report, the Blockchain Transparency Institute stated that only Binance out of the top 15 exchanges on major market data providers has verifiable volume.

There exists a difference in the current structure of the market when compared to 2017 and years before that as the market has matured with the entrance of large financial institutions and reputable exchanges.

The investor told CryptoSlate that the current price trend of bitcoin cannot be compared with the bull market of 2017 and that the market is unlikely to experience corrections in the size of previous pullbacks with bigger players and a wider range of financial products having been established.

"I've said all along that you cannot compare this bull market to the bull market of 2017 and expect everything to play out the same way. It's not the same paradigm. The infrastructure is different. Bigger players, more financial products around bitcoin. It's a more mature market now and corrections will simply not be as deep as they were in 2017 when we were at the beginning of that bull market. This is why we didn't get the drop many were expecting."

The rally of bitcoin led the rest of the crypto market to recover, as the market added $9 billion within merely several hours.

Litecoin, the fourth most valuable crypto asset in the global market, recorded yet another eight percent increase against the U.S. dollar heading towards a block reward halving in the near term.

A block reward halving is a mechanism integrated into proof-of-work blockchain protocols like Bitcoin and Litecoin that reduces the rate in which the supply of the native crypto asset is released to the market.

With investors generally positive about the medium-term trend of the market on a macro level, analysts expect bitcoin to sustain its momentum as it climbs above key resistance levels.