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(Bloomberg) — Bitcoin dropped briefly below $40,000 for the first time since August amid rising criticism from regulators, before rallying as the mood in global markets improved. Most Read from Bloomberg The largest cryptocurrency broke a three-day losing streak, rising 2.9% to $42,132 as of 6:34 a.m. London time on Wednesday. It earlier slid as much as 3.2% to $39,625. Tokens including Ether, Solana and Litecoin were slightly lower over the past 24 hours. Fears of contagion from the debt… Source link

(Bloomberg) — A cryptocurrency data network run by some of Wall Street’s biggest players showed a roughly 90% plunge in Bitcoin on Monday, a glitch that didn’t show up on other platforms. Most Read from Bloomberg The platform, called Pyth, is heralded by its supporters as an industrial-grade source for pricing information on assets like stocks and cryptocurrencies. Its contributors include finance giants like Jump Trading Group, DRW and FTX. On Monday, it briefly reported Bitcoin’s price… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Cryptocurrency prices slumped as a broad selloff sparked by worries about contagion from China Evergrande Group swept through global markets. Most Read from Bloomberg Bitcoin was down 8.1% to trade around $43,743 as of 5:11 p.m. in New York. It had dropped as much as as 10.7% earlier, which pushed it below $43,000 and to its lowest level since the beginning of August. Ether briefly dropped below $3,000. Popular DeFi tokens some of the biggest declines: Cardano fell more than 10%… Source link

Investors unnerved by the financial strains of a Chinese real estate firm sent cryptocurrencies reeling on Monday, with bitcoin (BTC-USD) tumbling by more than 7%. As risk-sensitive assets plunged, the leading digital coin shed over $3,000, changing hands just below $44,000 in midday trading. The moves were the latest signal that the world’s largest cryptocurrency hasn’t achieved the “safe haven” asset status that some of its more ardent proponents have promoted, even as debt levels… Source link

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The amount of bitcoin held on exchanges like Coinbase and Binance, have dropped to lower than they were in November last year. Photo: Reuters Major cryptocurrencies were down on Friday morning after a volatile week amid rising concerns over bitcoin’s environmental impact. Bitcoin (BTC-USD) was down 0.4%, still struggling to cross the $50,000 (£36,237) mark. It was trading at $47,900 at the time of writing. Many supporters on Twitter are hopeful it will hit $100,000 by the end of the… Source link

This week’s “flash crash” that dragged bitcoin (BTC-USD) back below $50,000 — and sent other digital coins reeling in its wake — marred what should have been the momentous occasion of the first sovereign country on earth adopting a cryptocurrency as legal tender.  Despite the ugly price action, most of crypto’s true believers are still just that — even as some observers question bitcoin’s head-spinning volatility, and El Salvador’s decision to throw its weight behind it.  Michael… Source link

Cryptocurrency bulls are lauding the decision by El Salvador to become the first country to accept bitcoin as legal tender. And one bitcoin fund manager believes other countries in emerging markets around the world could possibly follow suit. Michael Sonnenshein, CEO of Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest cryptocurrency fund manager by assets ($32 billion as of Sept. 3), spoke with Yahoo Finance Live and speculated where such countries could be located. “When we think about where… Source link

Bitcoin’s hasty retreat from $50,000 in the wake of El Salvador’s widely publicized move to allow the digital coin to be used as legal tender left many in the marketplace scratching their heads. In whipsaw trading on Wednesday, Bitcoin (BTC) was down by nearly 2% on the day, though off its steepest declines of the day. Since hitting its Mid-July low of $29,000, Bitcoin has rallied, hitting nearly $53,000 early Tuesday morning before plummeting to a low of $45,000. As investors mulled a “flash… Source link

The steep pullback in bitcoin prices (BTC-USD) this week doesn’t derail the bullish outlook for cryptocurrency, argues one veteran industry insider.  “If we have enough volume from new buyers, we should go back and retest that $53,000 to $55,000 level. If we break through that, we will see new highs this year. I am still holding my projections that we will be hitting the $140,000 to $160,000 levels. It might take us into Q1 of next year because of this kind of flash crash and clean-up we… Source link