Crypto Markets Lose $100 Billion Daily as Bitcoin Dips Below $42K (Market Watch)
Bitcoin’s adverse price movements continue with the asset sliding below $42,000. Most of the altcoin space is in an even more gloomy situation, with substantial losses from Ethereum, Binance Coin, Avalanche, MATIC, LUNA, ATOM, and others.
BTC Slips Below $42K
It’s safe to say that the past several days didn’t go all that well for the primary cryptocurrency. On January 15th, it spiked to just shy of $44,000 after an impressive leg up.
However, it failed to breach that level as the bears tightened their grip on the market. BTC first dropped to $43,000 hours later, before another price dump took it to around $42,000, as reported yesterday.
While bitcoin remained there for a while, and it seemed that it could hold on to that level, the bears pushed it south once more. In the following hours, BTC dropped to around $41,500, which was a weekly low.
It bounced off initially to above $42,000 but failed again and currently sits around that level. As a result, its market capitalization has declined below $800 billion.
Altcoins in Red Again
The alternative coins were also harmed in the past several days. Ethereum traded above $3,400 last week before the market-wide correction started to drive it south. In the past 24 hours alone, ETH has lost more than 4% and now sits at just over $3,100.
Binance Coin has declined by a similar percentage and struggles to remain above $460. More losses come from Cardano, Solana, Ripple, Dogecoin, Avalanche, Shiba Inu, CRO, and Polkadot.
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The situation with Terra, Polygon, NEAR Protocol, Chainlink, and ATOM is even more severe as most are down by double-digits.
POKT (-20%), XRM (-12%), FTM (-11%), FXS (-10%), AXS (-10%), and OKB (-10%) are also deep in red.
Ultimately, the crypto market cap is down by approximately $100 billion in a day and is just shy of $2 trillion as of now.
