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Bitcoin notches record weekly close after highest-ever daily close candle

Bitcoin notches record weekly close after highest-ever daily close candle

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2025-05-19 | 5m
Bitcoin has notched its highest-ever weekly close as crypto market momentum continues and the cryptocurrency is again nearing its all-time high. Bitcoin has closed at a weekly gain for the past six weeks in a row, and its most recent close at midnight UTC on May 18 was its highest weekly close ever at just below $106,500, according to TradingView.
Its last highest weekly close was in December when it reached $104,400. It later went on to reach an all-time high of $109,358 on Jan. 20, according to TradingView. Bitcoin is now less than 3% away from its peak price and has gained 2% over the past 24 hours to trade around $104,730 at the time of writing. Bitcoin also posted its highest-ever close in a 24-hour period on May 18. However, this is not the largest daily gain Bitcoin has made. “Bitcoin just had its highest daily candle close... ever,” investor Scott Melker posted to X on May 19. With a daily close above $105,000, “Bitcoin will develop a brand new higher high,” said analyst Rekt Capital.
Bitcoin’s weekly gains over the past six weeks are mirroring its gains in November when it added $30,000 in three of its largest weekly candles ever. It has added around $12,000 so far in May, climbing from $94,000 to over $106,000 before it pulled back to around $105,400. Additionally, Arete Capital partner “McKenna” said the Coinbase premium had returned, which measures US sentiment by comparing the difference between Coinbase’s BTC/USD pair and Binance’s BTC/USDT equivalent. The “strength of this bid on a Sunday night feels strange,” they said, adding its “possible someone knows some important news dropping next week.”
On May 18, analyst Willy Woo dived into Bitcoin’s compound annual growth rate ( CAGR), noting that it was trending downward as the network continues to store more capital. “BTC is now traded as the newest macro asset in 150 years, it'll continue to absorb capital until it reaches its equilibrium,” he said. Woo compared it to long-term monetary expansion of 5% and GDP growth of 3%, estimating that Bitcoin’s annual growth rate will be around 8% in around 15 to 20 years when it has settled. “Until then, enjoy the ride because almost no publicly investable product can match BTC performance long term, even as BTC's CAGR continues to erode.”
Source: CoinTelegraph

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