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    Home » Market Updates » Crypto Black Monday: Bitcoin Lost $700 on Rising COVID-19 Second Wave Fears

    Crypto Black Monday: Bitcoin Lost $700 on Rising COVID-19 Second Wave Fears

    Author: Jordan Lyanchev

    Last Updated Sep 22, 2020 @ 12:41

    The cryptocurrency market, along with Wall Street and gold, has lost significant chunks of value following increasing COVID-19 confirmed cases and more restrictions in Europe.

    The cryptocurrency market cap lost about $18 billion of value since yesterday. Bitcoin plummeted by nearly $700 to $10,300 at one point, while the altcoins have it worse with some vigorous double-digit drops.

    Bitcoin Falls Hard

    Just a few days ago, Bitcoin attempted to overcome the psychological $11,000 level on two occasions. However, the asset couldn’t succeed on either and remained trading just beneath $11,000.

    Yesterday, though, the situation rapidly worsened as BTC began freefalling from about $10,990 to its daily low of $10,296 (on Binance). Since then, Bitcoin has recovered slightly and currently trades around $10,380, which is still a 5% decrease on a 24-hour scale.

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    BTC/USD. Source: TradingView

    Bitcoin’s adverse developments resembled those of other financial markets. The price of gold went from its daily high of $1,960 per ounce to about $1,880 in a matter of hours as well. The precious metal has also regained some ground since then, and it trades above $1,900.

    The three most prominent Wall Street stock market indexes also began yesterday’s trading session with significant decreases and closed in the red. The movements followed declining European stocks on the possibility of implementing more stringent restrictions due to rising COVID-19 confirmed cases.

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    Altcoins Bleed Out

    As it typically happens after a vigorous price dip from Bitcoin, most alternative coins followed suit. Ethereum is 10% down since yesterday to $336. Ripple (-6%) fights to stay above $0.23.

    Polkadot (-15%) and Binance Coin (-12%) are the most substantial losers from the top 10. Bitcoin Cash (-7%), Chainlink (-9%), Crypto.com Coin (-5.5%), and Litecoin (-9%) are also deep in the red.

    coin360_heatmap_market

    As seen in the above chart, red dominates the entire market. From the lower-cap alts, Uniswap leads the way with a 30% drop, and UNI trades at $3.8. Just a few days ago, Uniswap’s recently launched governance token was at $7.

    Elrond follows with a 21% decrease. NEO (-21%), Aragon (-20%), HedgeTrade (-18%), SushiSwap (-22%), Arweave (-18%), Kusama (-18%), Ren (-15%), and Balancer (-16.5%) are some of the tokens plummeting by double-digit percentages.

    In total, the crypto market cap has dropped from yesterday’s peak at $349 billion to about $328.5 billion as of writing these lines.

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    Cryptocurrency Market Cap. Source: CoinMarketCap
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    Jordan got into crypto in 2016 by trading and investing. He began writing about blockchain technology in 2017. He has managed numerous crypto-related projects and is passionate about all things blockchain. Contact Jordan: LinkedIn

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