By Isaac • September 21, 2026 7:11 am •
Bitcoin just cleared a line that has spent most of the past year acting like a ceiling.
The asset closed the week at $81,159 on Coinbase, above a 50-week moving average near $78,788. It was Bitcoin’s first weekly close above that long-term measure in more than ten months—and the highest weekly close in four months.
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That is a genuine change in market structure. It is not, by itself, a guarantee that the bear market is over.
Why traders watch the 50-week line
Cointelegraph detailed why analysts treat the 50-week moving average as a dividing line between Bitcoin’s prolonged downtrends and the recoveries that followed them, noting Sunday’s $81,159 Coinbase close came above an average near $78,788
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