Reliving The FUD That Led To This Week’s Bitcoin Crash
It is the worst of times. It is the best of times. It is the age of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Nevertheless, Bitcoin’s fundamentals remain intact. The project’s value is still there, despite the disastrous drop in price. It was all going so well. How did we get here? Actually, there are a lot of […]
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Time flies. It is hard to imagine that one year ago today, Black Thursday struck Bitcoin and caused one of the largest single-day selloffs in the asset’s short history, but here we are. In honor of all the billions of liquidations that took place that day, all the strong hands that held through the carnage, and the savvy investors who bought the blood in the streets, we’re looking back at that fateful day and how […]
With the second week of the New Year now behind us, Bitcoin is slowly but surely stabilizing. With CES coming to a close, as well as the Bitcoin booths that were there, more and more people are becoming aware of the online currency has grown to a tight-knit group of people hoping for its success across the globe. This week’s market summary will break down this weekend, to show how especially unstable Bitcoins price was, and how different the outlook on Bitcoin can be in the matter of 24 hours. Since last week’s crash, Bitcoin has stabilized to a price of $285.42, according to CMC at time....
What caused Bitcoin's latest price crash? Theories are flying everywhere, but Cointelegraph's market experts have arrived to get to the bottom of it. Tune in now! “The Market Report” with Cointelegraph is live right now! Tune in to watch Cointelegraph host and analyst Benton Yaun alongside resident market experts Jordan Finneseth and Yashu Gola. Today’s menu: the dramatic Bitcoin (BTC) price flash crash to $43,000 on Tuesday.What caused the crash? Was it market manipulation, leverage liquidations, El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law, the SEC going after Coinbase — or a combination of these factors?....
The quest continues for the perfect “stand in” for the U.S. dollar. But, UST’s crash suggests that algo stables may be “inherently fragile.” TerraUSD (UST) is an algorithmic stablecoin that is pegged at $1.00. But, on the evening of May 19, it was trading for $0.083.This isn’t supposed to happen, of course, but last week UST, along with its affiliated coin Terra (LUNA), performed a sort of death spiral that “wiped nearly $50 billion of investor wealth in a few short days,” according to NYDIG’s May 13 newsletter.The crash shook the crypto sector, but it also raised some questions: Is this....