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    Home » Crypto News » Is Bitcoin Crashing?

    Is Bitcoin Crashing?

    Author: Felix Mollen

    Last Updated Nov 22, 2019 @ 12:54

    The last few days have been fairly unpleasant for Bitcoin and the entire cryptocurrency market. In the past six days, BTC surged past $13,000 only to decrease severely since. It’s currently trading at around $10,200, which is an overall decrease of about 23%. But it’s not just Bitcoin. The entire market is trading in the red, with some large-cap altcoins such as Ethereum down upwards of 17% in the last 24 hours alone. But how bad is this really?

    Bitcoin Goes Down, Pulls the Market With It

    It’s safe to say that the cryptocurrency market has seen better days. In the past five days alone, Bitcoin lost more than 23% of its value, and it’s currently trading at around $10,200. Naturally, the severe volatility caught the attention of the community, with a lot of people calling for a trend reversal. 

    At the same time, the damages were also spread across the entire market, which lost around $70 billion of its value. 

    Many people had hoped that a correction in Bitcoin would provide long-suffering altcoins with room to recover, but, unfortunately, this wasn’t the case. As CryptoPotato has reported, we are apparently in a period in which altcoins are going down regardless of Bitcoin’s performance. 

    As you can see in the above image, the altcoin market is in a very bad place right now. ETH is down more than 17%, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has declined as well, while others such as Bitcoin SV (BSV) are even deeper in the red with a decrease of more than 22%. Other large- and mid-cap altcoins have also marked double-digit pullbacks. 

    How Bad Is it Really, Though?

    While the condition of the altcoin market is truly depressing, can we really say the same for Bitcoin? Perhaps it’s wise to take a look at the bigger picture before coming to rash conclusions and stating that Bitcoin is crashing. 

    BTC/USD. Source: CoinGecko

    Looking at the price of Bitcoin since the beginning of this year, we can clearly see the progress it has made. BTC started the year trading at around $3,700 and is up more than 175% year-to-date, factoring in the steep 23% decline of the past few days. 

    Popular Bitcoin proponents and industry commentators have noted that this hardly constitutes “crashing.” The senior market analyst at eToro, Mati Greenspan, for instance, said that Bitcoin is “the only asset that consistently crashes up.”

    The recent correction doesn’t seem to have fazed John McAfee either, who is holding strong with his $1 million BTC price prediction by the end of 2020. 

    Bitcoin is at the mid 10’s and people worry. LMFAO!! Why do you pay attention to weekly fluctuations? Look at the past few months FFS! It’s rising drastically. I’m still positive about my $1 mil BTC price by the end of 2020. Alt coins like MTC and Apollo will rise ten times more.

    — John McAfee (@officialmcafee) July 14, 2019

    It’s also worth noting that corrections of this kind bode well for the cryptocurrency’s future performance. 

    It’s also important to keep in mind that some very serious industry events have yet to take place. For example, Bakkt, the Bitcoin futures trading platform spearheaded by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) plans to start user acceptance testing in a week’s time. What this goes to show is that Bitcoin managed to increase tremendously in 2019 and its parabolic movement wasn’t even catalyzed by industry-altering events. 

    In other words, while the prices have gone south lately, it’s important to keep the bigger picture in mind. And yet, in highly volatile periods like this one, one should remain extra vigilant. 

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    Felix got into Bitcoin back in 2014, but his interest quickly expanded to everything blockchain-related. He's particularly excited about real-world applications of blockchain technology. Having worked as a professional content writer for three years before that, Felix transitioned to working on blockchain-centered projects and hasn't looked back ever since.

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