Bitcoin Price Sinks, But Community Remains Optimistic
If you've taken a peak at the bitcoin price charts lately, you might have noticed that the price of bitcoin is down. Some would say alarmingly so, but for those of us that have been in the game since the beginning, it's nothing we're not accustomed to by now. A quick peak at the charts (drawing data from the Bitstamp exchange) quotes us $436 at the last trade (as of this writing). Over the past seven days, we've seen the price slowly sink down to this level from the $480 range - down over 7 percent. Which of course leads many to ask: what in the world is going on? If there were an easy....
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