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    Home » Crypto News » Peter Schiff: Instead of Getting New Money, Bitcoin Dumped After Reaching ATH

    Peter Schiff: Instead of Getting New Money, Bitcoin Dumped After Reaching ATH

    Author: George Georgiev

    Last Updated Dec 1, 2020 @ 14:12

    Economist Peter Schiff says the latest crash in BTC was caused by large investors dumping on “small guys,” while outlining that new money failed to get in.

    The well-known Bitcoin permabear and gold bug Peter Schiff has once again taken a swing at the primary cryptocurrency.

    His comments followed a volatile market that saw almost $300 million in liquidations in less than an hour and more than $800 million in less than a day.

    Peter Schiff Bashes Bitcoin

    The well-known economist and strong gold proponent, Peter Schiff, has once again taken the opportunity to swing at Bitcoin.

    He said that there was no new money coming in, but instead, it was old money that cashed out profits.

    Bitcoin pumpers assured HODLers that once #Bitcoin made a new high, momentum investors would rush in to buy. That was part of the pump to keep the little guys on board while the big guys dumped. Bitcoin made a new high, but instead of new money rushing in, old money cashed out.

    — Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) December 1, 2020

    He also believes that this was “part of the pump to keep the little guys on board while the big guys dumped.” However, he fails to source his information and makes claims without substantiating them.

    In fact, data from Santiment, published just yesterday, revealed that addresses holding large amounts of bitcoins continue to increase over the past two weeks, while the addresses holding between 0 and 10 bitcoins decreased.

    There isn’t an accepted standard as to what constitutes a “small guy,” but the smallest portion that Santiment tracks between 0 and 10 bitcoins comes as close to that. In any case, it’s unclear at best what caused the drop.

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    Bitcoin Address State. Source: Santiment

    A Hard Day Nevertheless

    Regardless of Schiff’s unsubstantiated claims, this was undoubtedly a blow on investors. As CryptoPotato reported earlier today, over $290 million got liquidated in less than an hour.

    At the time of this writing, the total liquidations over the past day amount to over $839 million. The bulk of that comes from Binance, which saw about 38% of all. The largest liquidation right now is $6.02 million, and it took place on Huobi.

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    Georgi Georgiev is CryptoPotato's editor-in-chief and a seasoned writer with over two 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

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