Bitcoin: Temporary Correction or No ATH This Year? The Crypto Weekly Market Upda

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Bitcoin: Temporary Correction or No ATH This Year? The Crypto Weekly Market Update

Bitcoin has a way of surprising people. This week was no exception. A few days ago, almost everyone believed that the cryptocurrency is inevitably headed to a new all-time high. And how could they not? BTC was trading at a few hundred USD below the record from back in 2017. Unfortunately, things took a turn for the worst.

Yesterday was undoubtedly a bad day for bitcoin as it plunged a total of around $3,000 in less than 24 hours. From a high of about $19,500 down to $16,200, the bears poked and showed their faces. The entire market lost around $80 billion of its capitalization as altcoins actually had it worst.

During the market dive, Bitcoin’s dominance actually increased, showing that not only altcoins failed to hold their ground, but they dropped harder than BTC. Since then, there has been a slight recovery and at the time of this writing, the primary cryptocurrency is trading at around $17,000.

The move was seemingly propelled by the news that US regulators might seek to require identity verification from crypto wallet providers. Coinbase’s CEO, Brian Armstrong, commented on the matter, expressing his worries that if the new rules are implemented, they would be rather harmful to the users and the industry, in general.

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