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Bitcoin (BTC) Price Consolidates at $64K Before Next Push Higher

Bitcoin (BTC) traded near $64,000 early Monday, briefly hitting $65,000 over the weekend boosted by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s dovish remarks at the Jackson Hole symposium . On Friday, Powell signaled that an interest rate cut might be coming in September. Solana (SOL) showed relative strength among crypto majors, up 3% over the past 24 hours, shrugging off diminishing odds of a SOL-based spot ETF in the U.S. The broad-market benchmark CoinDesk 20 advanced 0.6% during the same period. The recovery of crypto prices was supported by a strong stablecoin expansion, with $1 billion of tokens minted at a 7-day average, 10x Research founder’s Markus Thielen noted. “Technically speaking, it’s looking more and more like we are in a bullish consolidation ahead of the next big push higher,” Joel Kruger, market strategist at LMAX group said in a Monday report. “This would translate to bitcoin making fresh record highs and ETH breaking out to another yearly high on its way to challenge its own record high from 2021.”