Funny thing is, many of the people who deride TA here will quite happily make statements such as
'sideways consolidation usually leads to a breakout and rally in Bitcoin as people realise its not going to go down and buy in'
or 'it's coiling up like a spring and the pressure is building'
or 'there's no volume ... I don't trust it'

That is TA  

Just expressed in a slightly different language ...
Or to put it another way, that is the emotion behind the price action that forms the patterns that we see repeat again and again on different levels

So does "the Bear is pushing the Bull down to the bottom of the hill because he's got a poorly leg" count as TA?