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Bitcoin Price Dips to $19,500 While Altcoins Continue to Bleed Out (Market Watch)

George Georgiev Aug 29, 2022 07:51
The cryptocurrency market continues to bleed out as its capitalization drops to $950 billion. Meanwhile, extreme fear is once again the predominant sentiment.

The cryptocurrency market continues to struggle, with its total capitalization shedding another $50 billion over the past 24 hours.

This comes as Bitcoin’s price plunged to a daily low of around $19,500, and other cryptocurrencies also feeling the heat.

Bitcoin Continues to Struggle

Bitcoin shed another percent off its dollar value in the past 24 hours and dropped to a low of around $19,520 (on Binance).

Source: Binance via TradingView

As seen in the chart above, the price has now recovered to about $19,900, but the cryptocurrency is still done some 6.5% in the past week.

It’s also worth noting, though, that BTC’s dominance – the metric commonly used to gauge its performance relative to that of the rest of the market – increased a bit in the past 24 hours. This means that BTC performed better than altcoins.

Slow Bleed for Altcoins

The altcoin market continues to bleed out for a few days in a row now. This, alongside Bitcoin’s decline, led to the total market capitalization dropping below $1 trillion and currently sitting at around $950 billion.

Over the past 24 hours, the altcoins charted slight decreases, failing to recover from last week’s drops.

Source: Quantify Crypto

As seen in the heatmap above, Ethereum is down almost 3%, trading at around $1450. ADA is down 3.7%, as well as XRP. BNB is also down almost 1%. AVAX is amongst the more considerable losers in the past day, down over 10%.

All in all, there aren’t a lot of cryptocurrencies that are well in the green, with LTC leading the charts with a slight 2% increase.

The cryptocurrency market has once again dropped into a state of Extreme Fear. The index is now at 24.

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Cryptocurrency charts by TradingView.
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George Georgiev

Georgi Georgiev is CryptoPotato's editor-in-chief and seasoned writer with over four years of experience writing about blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Georgi's passion for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies bloomed in late 2016 and he hasn't looked back since. Crypto’s technological and economic implications are what interest him most, and he has one eye turned to the market whenever he’s not sleeping. Contact George: LinkedIn