Bitcoin (BTC) sought a rematch with multimonth lows on March 10 as familiar selling accompanied the start of Wall Street trading.

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD down around 4% on the day to reach $79,170 on Bitstamp.

Bitcoin (BTC) price slid to retest multi-month lows on March 10 as familiar selling accompanied the start of Wall Street trading.

BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView

BTC price sags closer to new four-month lows

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD changing hands at around $79,170 on Bitstamp, down nearly 4% on the day.

Weakness into the weekly close continued as risk assets across the board saw a flight to safety.

Stocks opened substantially lower, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite Index down 2% and 3.5%, respectively.

Reacting, trading resource The Kobeissi Letter said that US government spending cutbacks at the hands of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) were to blame for the slump.

“While everyone is focused on the trade war, do not discount the impact of reduced government spending expectations,” it wrote in part of its latest analysis on X. 

S&P 500 1-day chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView

Kobeissi added that crypto markets had lost $1 trillion in market cap in just two months.

“The rally after the U.S. Strategic Reserve was announced has been completely erased,” it added on BTC/USD.

Market participants’ views were mixed as it became unclear where BTC price action might put in a more reliable floor.

Popular trader and analyst Rekt Capital advised X followers to watch for relative strength index (RSI) on lower prices for reversal cues.

“Going forward, it'll be worth watching for Bitcoin to form Lower Lows on the price action and Higher Lows on the RSI for a Bullish Divergence to develop,” he wrote about daily timeframes.

BTC/USD 1-day chart with RSI data. Source: Rekt Capital/X

A further post noted that the current bull cycle had seen bounces whenever the daily RSI reached below 28. 

Specifically, “Bitcoin's price would either bottom or be between -2% to -8% away from a bottom,” he explained. 

Daily RSI was at 33.2 at the time of writing.

BTC/USD 1-day chart with RSI data. Source: Rekt Capital/X

Bybit hack remains the elephant in the room

Elsewhere, trading firm QCP Capital put the broader crypto market downturn down to sell-off activity related to last month’s hack of crypto exchange Bybit.

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“Today's price selloff may also be exacerbated by holders preemptively front-running further hacker-driven supply, now that the hackers have shown willingness to cash out rather than risk further losses — having already seen their stolen assets depreciate by 25%,” it wrote in its latest bulletin to Telegram channel subscribers. 

QCP data showed market expectations becoming more optimistic only from Q3 onward.

“Until crypto finds a new narrative, we're likely to see an increased correlation between BTC and equities in the near term,” it concluded, referencing upcoming U.S. macroeconomic data releases.