i would think that the drop from $1100 yesterday to as of this thread is started $950, is a trap for sellers because looking at its popularity, it is not the first time bitcoin being volatile. unless bitcoin price drops to ~$850 within a day, it could be unnecessary to sell your bitcoins for some of the people will buy again.
what is Bitcoin Unlimited though?
it is manipulation and when you manipulate you don't want to kill what you have already invested thousands of dollars in. it is only one of the reason why price won't go low a lot because those who dump a big amount of bitcoin at once to make the price drop are slowly buying it back up and if things get out of hand put up big buy walls to prevent it from going lower.
on the other hand, there are many who knowing the situation, are buying bitcoin to take advantage of the situation. and it is not really the first time it happened! take a look at the charts and do some research and you'll see how many times before, there was a big so-called-news about bitcoin and it being dead that caused some down period like this.
the principle of all FUDs are always the same:
- Bitcoin being a Ponzi scheme (2009)
- Bitcoin being hacked and all private keys listed on a website (early years)
- China banning bitcoin (early years then in 2013 then 2015-16-17,...)
- MtGox running away
- M. Hearn bullshit that I can not even remember anymore
- Exchanges being hacked
- China banning bitcoin trading
- China controlling bitcoin and mining
- and the stupidest one of all China rejecting transactions from the rest of the world
- ETF rejected
- An altcoin claiming to be replacing bitcoin and report fake huge trade volumes daily and get pumped
- and now FUD about split these days
- something else in the future maybe about hell breaking lose, world war or aliens attack!
they are all the same thing. bitcoin has been under attack from all angles, it is sometimes from those who don't want to see a decentralized currency threaten their very existence or sometimes it is because someone is butthurt and missed a dip.
Even in future,if any one says that aliens are going to attack bitcoin mining farms and so bitcoin price is going to fall,still the panic sellers would immediately start selling their bitcoins.It would happen as routine and big whales would benefit continuosly.