Altcoins prices are bleeding heavily, with some of the top-20 coins showing losses of more than 34% on the day.
The most popular altcoin Ether (ETH) has dropped over $50 in the last 24 hours to a price point of $156 per coin, recording a heavy loss of 24% on the day.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/tuesday-shows-bloodbath-for-altcoins-up-to-34-losses-on-top-20-coinsdo you think this down market will continues and welcome back to the bears in crypto market again ?
or this is only the preparations if the market will growing really hard and the bulls will show up in the near time ?
This market will continue to dump because too many mining companies abandon bitcoin and cause its hashrate to drop dramatically by 40%.
This is considered to be the worst news ever and that has hit the whales, causing them to sell off bitcoin recently. If the hashrate does not recover, it will continue to fall and the altcoins will fall similarly
Where did you see that information about miners abandoning bitcoin mining? And if they are really doing that, what will they mine next? Do you think they will throw away their mining equipment just like that? We had similar situations in the past, but after a while things go back where they were.
And it`s not that all alts are bleeding heavily, some are holding pretty good if you check cmc you will see that.
https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-hashrate.html#3mIt was just a temp drop in Bitcoin mining hashrate, it has fully recovered by now.
Also i dont think this drop in mining hashrate affected the Bitcoin price all that much, people were just disappointed about Bakkt volume, VanEck ETF proposal getting withdrawn and i also dont rule out some price manipulation going on from those trading in Bitcoin Futures
(50% of Bitcoin futures contracts expire this friday / today).
Link :
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-price-manipulated-before-futures-settlement-dates-researchArcane published the numbers just hours before Bitcoin nosedived 15%, bottoming out at $8,000. That event happened to
occur days before a major settlement date: on Friday, 50% of open interest in Bitcoin options is set to expire.
Looks like the other 50% of Bitcoin futures contracts expire 1st of october 2019.
Link :
https://www.barchart.com/futures/futures-expirations/currenciesI would not be surprised if Bitcoin dropped to $7,500 between now and 1st of october, and then rise again (pulling the altcoins with it).