Bitcoin prices continue to rise slowly amid news of Maduro’s capture. Events of January 3 are “already behind” the Bitcoin market, says expert. The US’ capture of the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has done little to affect Bitcoin prices over the weekend, with some experts claiming crypto markets will not suffer as a result of Washington’s strikes. On X, Michaël van de Poppe, the founder of MN Fund, said he did not foresee “a widespread Bitcoin correction based on the attack in Venezuela.”
“It’s a planned and coordinated attack on Maduro, and is already past us,” van de Poppe said. While crypto markets seem unmoved, some fear the picture will change when equities and commodities markets reopen on Monday. Bitcoin prices have moved back into $90,000 territory in recent days. The likelihood of more negativity on the markets from that single event is relatively slim.
I would assume we’ll see Bitcoin north of $90,000 in the coming week, van de Poppe said. But others were less optimistic. “There’s a lot of geopolitical tension, and next week the big players will return,” the crypto market analyst Lennaert Snyder wrote on X. Bitcoin prices continued their slow crawl back above the $90,000 mark over the weekend, apparently unmoved completely by the events of January 3, which saw US special forces capture Maduro and his wife.
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