Bitcoin 

BTC

$17,439

 is keeping traders on the edge of their seats this week as support levels come close to breaking.

Traders line up targets below $40,000

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that lines in the sand below $40,000 barely remain intact after multiple retests.

The $40,000 mark has been working overtime in recent days as Bitcoin’s macro-fueled downtrend continues to play out. Falling in line with tech stocks, BTC/USD has erased almost all of its gains from the second half of March.

Now, the $30,000-$40,000 corridor has appeared as a short-term target once again and may see Bitcoin stage a replay of its behavior from Q1 this year.

Support levels of interest include one from last month’s push higher, $39,600, which bulls are just about managing to defend despite several crossings lower.

Below that, whale buying zones could act as a safety net, on-chain monitoring resource Whalemap noted on April 12.

Popular trader Crypto Ed, meanwhile, is eyeing $38,600 as a short-term bounce area, underscoring the mixed consensus over just how far Bitcoin could fall.

As Cointelegraph previously reported, Arthur Hayes, ex-CEO of derivatives platform BitMEX, expects the largest cryptocurrency to trade at $30,000 in June.

On longer timeframes, analyst Kevin Svenson, meanwhile, eyed the 600-day simple moving average (SMA) as a key support line now being retested in what could be a significant event.

“BTC has not closed a daily candle below the 600d/SMA since the COVID-19 crash,” he noted.

“The 600d/SMA has also been the main support for this range since mid-January. $39,250 is where 600d/SMA is at the moment.”

Terra keeps buying but loses $96 million

For the newest bigtime Bitcoin buyer on the block, however, it is business as usual.

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Data from its wallet confirms that the Luna Foundation Guard (LFG), the nonprofit organization attached to Blockchain protocol Terra, added another 2,500 BTC, or $100.4 million, to its reserves on April 13.

This means that Terra now owns 42,400 BTC, worth around $1.704 billion at the time of writing — just 800 BTC less than Tesla’s corporate treasury allocation.

The purchases have so far come at a price. From being nearly $200 million in profit on its stash, Terra is now nearly $100 million in the red, thanks to the latest Bitcoin price dip.

Its wallet is the 18th largest on the Bitcoin network, and as Terra co-founder Do Kwon confirmed, its contents are set to grow “in perpetuity” as the firm seeks to back the expanding supply of its TerraUSD (UST) stablecoin.

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