{"id":40445,"date":"2026-01-23T21:14:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=40445"},"modified":"2026-01-23T21:14:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:14:49","slug":"bitcoin-whipsaws-around-90k-as-gold-targets-5k-ath-and-silver-breaks-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=40445","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Whipsaws Around $90K as Gold Targets $5K ATH and Silver Breaks $100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<p>With the growing global uncertainty and rising geopolitical tension, it&#8217;s evident that investors tend to pick more stable and historically proven assets such as gold and silver, while leaving cryptocurrencies aside, at least for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>In the past few hours alone, BTC attempted a breakout, which was quickly halted at $91,000 while gold and silver charted fresh all-time highs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1426807\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1426807\" style=\"width: 1835px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BTCUSD-Jan-23.png\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1426807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BTCUSD Jan 23. Source: TradingView<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bitcoin&#8217;s early 2026 gains were quickly erased this week as Trump and the EU <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-price-loses-90k-support-despite-trumps-softer-greenland-stance-weekly-crypto-recap\/\">went on a full-scale verbal war<\/a> with tariff threats and potential &#8220;bazookas&#8221; over Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the primary cryptocurrency fell from over $95,000 to a multi-week low of $87,200 before it staged a recovery to nearly $90,000, where it spent most of the past day. It finally tried to break out hours ago, but the bears stepped up at $91,200 and didn&#8217;t allow another run.<\/p>\n<p>Just the opposite, BTC tumbled again by almost two grand immediately. Most altcoins followed suit, leaving over $300 million worth of liquidations on a daily scale, according to Coinglass data. Over half of that amount was wrecked in the past 4 hours alone.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the precious metal market <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-stumbles-gold-shines-as-trump-agrees-to-davos-meeting\/\">continues to boom<\/a>. Gold peaked at $4,970 earlier today, where it faced some rejection, but broke through that level and marked a new all-time high at $4,980. As such, it has neared $5,000 for the first time ever. The bullion is up by over 15% since the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Silver is the other massive gainer as of late. After surging by triple digits in 2025, it continues its run as 2026 began and has now surged by a whopping 42% in the matter of just a few weeks. Its latest record came hours ago when it soared past $100.<\/p>\n<p>A large portion of those gains against the greenback can be attributed to its poor performance. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-01-23\/dollar-set-for-worst-week-since-june-on-us-policy-nightmare\">reported<\/a> by Bloomberg, the dollar is set to close its worst week against other currencies (and asset classes) since June.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-whipsaws-around-90k-as-gold-targets-5k-ath-and-silver-breaks-100\/\">Bitcoin Whipsaws Around $90K as Gold Targets $5K ATH and Silver Breaks $100<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-whipsaws-around-90k-as-gold-targets-5k-ath-and-silver-breaks-100\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the growing global uncertainty and rising geopolitical tension, it&#8217;s evident that investors tend to pick more stable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crypto","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}