Bitcoin is taking a breather and hovering around $35,000 after the deep pullback earlier this week. This profit-taking at an ATH of $42,000 was expected after Bitcoin rallied more than 1,000% from the March 2020 lows.

“There’s signs that retail investors are taking profit,” said Ryan Rabaglia, OSL’s global head of trading. “Heightened volatility is often correlated with an uptick in retail participation.”

The market is particularly focusing on the US Dollar Index right now, which has been gaining strength, currently hovering around 90.

“We think a pullback is healthy,” said David Grider, the digital strategist at Fundstrat Global Advisors. According to him, the recent price action doesn’t indicate that Bitcoin has topped out.

However, further losses can’t be ruled out either, with miners continuing their selling while no significant stablecoin inflows in the picture. No outflows are seen from Coinbase either; as a matter of fact, BTC is flowing into exchanges.

On the basis of this, “We might have second dumping,” said Ki Young Ju, CEO of data provider CryptoQuant.

Still, $30k will be protected, and in the event of a dip, we might not go down below $28k because “there are many institutional investors who bought BTC at the 30-32k level,” Young Ju added.

These institutions were actually into buying the dips that came on Sunday and Monday. The large amounts of BTC holders that can be seen as a proxy for institutional adoption “increased significantly” since the start of 2021. This jump in address with at least 1,000 BTC shows that this institutional adoption is here to stay.

However, according to Goldman Sachs’ Jeff Currie, the level of institutional investment in the market is still very small though “the market is beginning to become more mature.”

“The key to creating some type of stability in the market is to see an increase in the participation of institutional investors, and right now they’re small,” said the investment bank’s head of commodities research on CNBC., adding that the investment in BTC is, “roughly 1% of it is institutional money.”

While for institutions, Bitcoin is a hedge against fiat debasement and risk of inflation, as it emerges as a store of value, for some, it is a way to fix economic injustice as well.

“For the first time in history, we have a Plan B option to the current financial system which has seen years of redlining, racial discrimination and other egregious acts by retail banks to the Black community,” said Isaiah Jackson, author of “Bitcoin & Black America.”

According to him, Bitcoin gives Black people an opportunity to not only shift their money but also their mindset because the world’s leading digital currency is unconfiscatable and has no barrier to entry.

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