Bitcoin (BTC), like most of the cryptocurrency market, saw a price correction today.
Amid fears of a sell-off by users of the failed crypto exchange Mt. Gox, who soon start receiving their benefits, the panic in the market is palpable. The German government’s wallet, which holds over $2.6 billion in crypto, appears to have begun to transfer its tokens, adding to the bearish outlook.
Bitcoin it briefly fell below $60,000, but at the time of writing it recovered to the price of $60,350 with a 4.2% drop in the last 24 hours and a trading volume of $25.7 billion. BTC’s market cap now stands at $1.18 trillion.
TradingView’s 14-day technical analysis shows an extremely pessimistic picture – the summary points to “sell” with 12 signals, the moving averages show “strong sell” with 2 signals and the oscillators with XNUMX signals.
Ethereum also saw a significant drop of 4.4% in the last 12.65 hours with a trading volume of $3,295 billion and is trading at $XNUMX.
The market’s total market capitalization fell 3.78% to $2.23 trillion.
For the last 24 hours $163.79 million was liquidated from the cryptocurrency market ($142.23 million in longs and $21.56 million in shorts)
The biggest loser was Bittsensor, which fell 13.6 to $235 after the message for a recent hack.
China has fired back at the U.S. with its own set of tariffs, marking another chapter in the escalating global trade conflict that began with President Donald Trump’s tariff announcement on April 2.
Bitcoin has once again demonstrated its resilience in the face of a turbulent market, outperforming the Nasdaq 100 index since the start of the year.
Bitcoin startup funding has seen a notable surge in early-stage investments, with pre-seed rounds increasing significantly since 2021.
Genius Group, a Singapore-based AI firm, has hit a legal snag in its plans to expand its Bitcoin treasury.