CEO of the USA Investment bank, Lloyd Blankfein said "something that move 20 overnight do not feel like a currency. It is vehicles to perpetrate fraud" after this comment on Thursday bitcoin lose over 20% and I was panic to sell off my holding. But thank God the bitcoin has started recovering as we can see that it is currently above $9,700. I think this is another caculated attacked on bitcoin image in other to create FUD.
I don't think it was related. The market is volatile, we are getting a lot of new users coming into bitcoin, and a lot of them moved by FOMO (fear of missing out), which means that as big whales take the opportunity to cash out a little and move markets, those new users, since they don't have a clear mind about bitcoin, just start panic selling only to see the price recover again, since the same whales are now buying lower to repeat the cycle.
It was just a normal day trading bitcoin. The good news are, that every time this cycle repeats itself, it will be harder and harder to do it, because the weak hands will either disappear or learn and get stronger. This means that more people will hold, and the less volatile the market will be.