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Bitcoin slumps 14% as pullback from record gathers pace

Agencies | , London
Apr 19, 2021 06:17 AM IST

Bitcoin was last trading down 10% at $53,991 as of 1320 GMT, a whopping $12,000 below record highs set on Wednesday.

Bitcoin, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency, fell as much as 14% to $51,541 on Sunday, reversing most of the big gains it made over the past week.

Representational: The largest US crypto exchange ended the week valued at $68 billion, more than the owner of the New York Stock Exchange.(Reuters)
Representational: The largest US crypto exchange ended the week valued at $68 billion, more than the owner of the New York Stock Exchange.(Reuters)

Bitcoin was last trading down 10% at $53,991 as of 1320 GMT, a whopping $12,000 below record highs set on Wednesday. Smaller rival Ether, the coin linked to the ethereum blockchain network, dropped 10% to $2,101.

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Data website CoinMarketCap cited a blackout in China’s Xinjiang region, which reportedly powers a lot of bitcoin mining, for the selloff. Luke Sully, CEO at digital asset treasury specialist Ledgermatic, said in an email that people “may have sold on the news of the power outage in China and not the impact it actually had on the network”.

The weekend carnage came after a heady week for the industry that saw the value of of all coins surge past $2.25 trillion amid a frenzy of demand for all things crypto in the runup to Coinbase’s direct listing on Wednesday.

The largest US crypto exchange ended the week valued at $68 billion, more than the owner of the New York Stock Exchange.

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