Bitcoin price tumbled under $8K on September 27th and has since slowly recovered back to prices between $8,200-$8,300.
Yeah, whenever bitcoin futures contract going to live, we will see such movement on the market, the timing of Bakkt and bitcoin price drop was relevant.
Despite it's related to Bakkt or not, we will see bitcoin prices will spike due to the fact that physically delivered futures require the actual purchase of bitcoins, which means that actual bitcoins are held in Bakkt’s warehouse and will be delivered at the expiry of the contract. Imagine, if you are one of those bitcoin futures investors or traders, you may want to buy bitcoin contract at the lower price and end up with the higher price at the moment it's delivered to you. Well, if you win the contract.
Bitcoin may enter the recovery zones by the year’s end. So, buy more bitcoin or hold on until then.
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Well I think the hack of the Lightning Network, the Google quantum computing exploit and the very low volume on Bakkt at its launch are the main culprits of the crash... The big dip in the hashrate wasn't a good news too...
Just read this news and its state;
Even with today’s sluggish crypto prices, the SHA-256 hashrate has remained unscathed and continues to show persistent growth.Full article