The past 24 hours have been brutal for any Bitcoin holders. Price has dropped from $430 all the way down to the current price during the writing of this publication which is $365. The obvious reason for today’s and yesterday’s dumps is Mike Hearn’s announcement that he is leaving Bitcoin for better things. In a recent medium post, Mr. Hearn single handedly proclaimed bitcoin a failure and blamed the community.
Why has Bitcoin failed? It has failed because the community failed.
This has caused a chain reaction of panic dumping as the news spread, leading to a bloody Friday. I would like to note one interesting fact about the recent dumps. There is a video on reddit showing proof that R3 knew about Mike Hearn’s upcoming departure:
Read More: http://themerkle.com/coins/bitcoin-technical-analysis-for-1152016-its-a-bloodbath/
Topic: [2016-1-15] Bitcoin Technical Analysis for 1/15/2016 – Its a bloodbath (Read 243 times)
January 15, 2016, 07:33:32 PM
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