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Bitcoin Plunges Below US$4,000
Bitcoin has plummeted a whopping 80 percent since its record highs of just under US$20,000 in December of last year.
Bitcoin plummeted below the US$4,000 threshold on Sunday (November 25) for the first time this year, further extending its recordĀ 2018 losses over the last two weeks.
The top digital currency dipped to as low as US$3,601.52 on Sunday, but inched back closer to the US$4,000 mark by Monday (November 26). As of 2:10 p.m. EST, bitcoin had recovered 1.68 percent over a 24-hour period to US$3,872.06 as per CoinMarketCap.com.
Since bitcoinās all-time high of US$19,015.40 on December 17, it is down a staggering 79.6 percent.
On CNBCās Squawk Box on Monday, Anthony Pompliano from Morgan Creek Digital Assets, said that an 85 percent decrease from bitcoinās record high is where the digital currency will end up, which he says puts it at around US$3,000.
When asked about investors who have left the market due to its price decline and if they will ever re-enter, Pompliano explained that bitcoin was already overvalued a year ago when it reached near US$20,000.
āThere were more sellers than buyers this year, so the price goes down,ā he said, and explained that there are three things investors should remember.
Pompliano said said the first thing to keep in mind is that bitcoin is a transaction settlement layer and is the most secure in the world. āItās got to be worth something, it canāt be worth zero.ā
The second thing to keep in mind is that bitcoin is still the best performing asset class over the last decade, which is up over 400 percent since its inception.
āThe third thing is that was all done by retail [investors],ā he said.
Pompliano added that one thing to remember about bitcoinās 2017 bull run is that it was driven by retail investors and 2018ās focus has shifted to institutional investors entering the market.
āMost of these institutional [investors] are not buying on [cryptocurrency] exchanges, theyāre buying on the [over-the-counter] OTC market, which we donāt have great transparency into or insight.ā
Bitcoinās latest drastic tumble seems to be a ripple effect from the Bitcoin Cash hard fork that took place on November 15. In the hard forkās aftermath, there has been arguments on the status of Bitcoin Cashās future as an asset class, according to Cointelegraph.
āThere are investigations, the hard fork of Bitcoin Cash . knocked peopleās confidence, volatility is back, and institutional money hasnāt really flowed in,ā Craig Erlam, senior market analysis at Oanda, told Bloomberg.
Despite the crypto crash on Sunday, all top digital currencies were back in the green on Monday. Ripple was back up 5.71 percent to US$0.36, Ethereum increased slightly by 1.28 percent to US$110.73, Bitcoin Cash rebounded by 2.83 percent to US$183.84, and EOS inched up 0.98 percent to US$3.25, all as of 4:45 p.m. EST on Monday.
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Securities Disclosure: I, Jocelyn Aspa, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article.Ā
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