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Forex Market News - Bitcoin slumps 14% as pullback from record gathers pace
Bitcoin, the world's biggest cryptocurrency, fell the maximum amount as 14% to $51,541 on Sunday, reversing most of the large gains it remodeled the past week.
Bitcoin was last trading down 10% at $53,991 as of 1320 GMT, a whopping $12,000 below record highs assail Wednesday. Smaller rival Ether, the coin linked to the ethereum blockchain network, dropped 10% to $2,101.
Luke Sully, CEO at digital asset treasury specialist Ledgermatic, said in an email that folks "may have sold on the news of the facility outage in China and not the impact it actually had on the network".
"The power failure does expose a fundamental weakness; that although the Bitcoin network is decentralized the mining of it's not," Sully added.
Some widely-followed block chain analysts on Twitter pointed to a pointy drop by "hash rate" thanks to the outage.
Hash rate refers to the volatility index that measures the processing capacity of the whole Bitcoin network, and it determines the facility required by miners to supply new Bitcoins.
"Typically shocks to hash rate don't cause price drops. A hash rate reduction slows transactions, which ironically makes it harder to maneuver coins to exchanges purchasable. The recent price drop is well within the bounds of typical volatility, it's noise not signal," said Edan Yago, co-founder at Bitcoin-based decentralized finance protocol Sovran.
The retreat in Bitcoin also comes after Turkey's central bank banned the utilization of cryptocurrencies for purchases on Friday.
Edward Moya, senior analyst at OANDA, said cryptocurrencies had been ripe for a pullback.
"The market has become overly aggressive and bullish on everything," said Edward Moya. "It could are any bearish headline that would have triggered this reaction."
Many cryptocurrency markets operate 24/7, setting the stage for price swings at unpredictable hours. Historically, retail and day traders have driven the moves.
Despite the sudden selloff, bitcoin remains up 89% thus far in 2021, driven by its mainstream acceptance as an investment and a way of payment, amid the push of retail cash into stocks, exchange-traded funds and other risky assets.
Bitcoin, the world's biggest cryptocurrency, fell the maximum amount as 14% to $51,541 on Sunday, reversing most of the large gains it remodeled the past week.
Bitcoin was last trading down 10% at $53,991 as of 1320 GMT, a whopping $12,000 below record highs assail Wednesday. Smaller rival Ether, the coin linked to the ethereum blockchain network, dropped 10% to $2,101.
Luke Sully, CEO at digital asset treasury specialist Ledgermatic, said in an email that folks "may have sold on the news of the facility outage in China and not the impact it actually had on the network".
"The power failure does expose a fundamental weakness; that although the Bitcoin network is decentralized the mining of it's not," Sully added.
Some widely-followed block chain analysts on Twitter pointed to a pointy drop by "hash rate" thanks to the outage.
Hash rate refers to the volatility index that measures the processing capacity of the whole Bitcoin network, and it determines the facility required by miners to supply new Bitcoins.
"Typically shocks to hash rate don't cause price drops. A hash rate reduction slows transactions, which ironically makes it harder to maneuver coins to exchanges purchasable. The recent price drop is well within the bounds of typical volatility, it's noise not signal," said Edan Yago, co-founder at Bitcoin-based decentralized finance protocol Sovran.
The retreat in Bitcoin also comes after Turkey's central bank banned the utilization of cryptocurrencies for purchases on Friday.
Edward Moya, senior analyst at OANDA, said cryptocurrencies had been ripe for a pullback.
"The market has become overly aggressive and bullish on everything," said Edward Moya. "It could are any bearish headline that would have triggered this reaction."
Many cryptocurrency markets operate 24/7, setting the stage for price swings at unpredictable hours. Historically, retail and day traders have driven the moves.
Despite the sudden selloff, bitcoin remains up 89% thus far in 2021, driven by its mainstream acceptance as an investment and a way of payment, amid the push of retail cash into stocks, exchange-traded funds and other risky assets.