Over the last couple of weeks the bitcoin price has expressed intensified levels of volatility, given the fact that its value has increased by $2,000 within 3 days, between the 24th and 27th of October, thus reaching a value of $9,548. However, this bull-run wasn’t long-lived granted that the price has once again decreased to the $8,750 threshold at the time of writing.

This article is meant to serve as an analysis into what triggered this month’s price volatility, while also offering several short and medium-term predictions.