Bitcoin Dips to $42.4K as Fed’s Powell Pours Cold Water on March Rate Cut
Bitcoin dipped to $42,300, while crypto majors ETH, ADA, DOT fell 3%-4% with Solana’s SOL tumbling over 6%.
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Bitcoin dipped to $42,300, while crypto majors ETH, ADA, DOT fell 3%-4% with Solana’s SOL tumbling over 6%.
Despite sizable net inflows into the new spot ETFs, bitcoin is lower by more than 12% since the products began trading one week ago.
Bitcoin [BTC] dropped to near $43,000 Friday, a fall of 6% in day-over-day trading, while some bitcoin mining stocks tumbled over 10% extending yesterday’s decline after Thursday’s highly-anticipated spot bitcoin ETF debut.
Bitcoin hit its highest price in more than two years Thursday before it fell back to $46,000 as the highly anticipated spot bitcoin ETF debut unleashed volatility.
Bitcoin could rally 10%-15% more in case the SEC approves spot bitcoin ETFs, LMAX strategist Joel Kruger noted.
Investors moved the highest amount of BTC to exchanges since March, IntoTheBlock noted, signaling profit-taking after bitcoin’s first eight-week streak of gains since 2017.
Bitcoin remained steady around $41,000 after Monday’s dramatic flush.
Bitcoin endured its worst daily drawdowns in 4 months, dipping over 7% to nearly $40,000. $XRP, $LINK, $ADA declined 8%-10%.
A “flash crash” in thin trading Sunday evening, saw bitcoin’s price plunge nearly 10% from the $44,000 level in the space of a few minutes.