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Bitcoin price crash amid ‘extreme market conditions’

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A noticeable Bitcoin price crash happened during the weekend, pulling Ethereum, Ripple and other altcoins with it.

There were two main causes for the Bitcoin price crash; one resides in the announcement of the Celsius Network about halting all of its client withdrawals, while the other is that investors are pretty scared of the Federal Reserves’ next move.

Falling below $24,000 on Monday, Bitcoin found itself at its lowest level since December 2020, as traders are dumping crypto amidst a wider sell-off in risk assets.

The top cryptocurrency went down by 13.72% in the last 24 hours to $23,751.61 at the time of writing. In the last seven days, the Bitcoin price has fallen by 24.44%.

The brutal market downturn seems to have started with fresh inflation concerns about Federal Reserve acting more aggressively to contain soaring inflation.

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Altcoins Take a Stumble

According to CoinDesk, during the last 24 hours, Ethereum went down by 18.16% to $1,198, while BNB fell by 14.97%, Cardano by 13.57 and XRP by 11.89%.

Also, Celsius Network, one of the biggest crypto exchanges said that “due to extreme market conditions”, it is pausing all withdrawals, Swap, and transfers between accounts.

Even though Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky tried to tweet away the fears of the Luna crisis impacting the exchange by promising Celsius had “minimal exposure” to Luna and UST, we suspect that last month’s crash of Do Kwan’s Terra empire shook investors’ confidence within the crypto market whose market cap fell below the $1 trillion mark to 977 billion.

Edul Patel Co-Founder and CEO of crypto investment platform Mudrex, commented the cryptocurrency market “has been under pressure from the Federal Reserve, hiking the interest rates to combat inflation over the past few months.

“Bitcoin, Ethereum, and most cryptocurrencies suffered losses over the weekend after a broad sell-off following the data showing US inflation hitting a 40-year high,” he said.

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Author: Teuta Franjkovic

Author: Teuta Franjkovic

A sincere writer with a strong will to share knowledge on all things blockchain, crypto, metaverse and DeFi. Starting out as a writer with Cosmopolitan, Teuta has risen through the ranks of business journalism, editing newspapers and websites within the fintech industry for over 15 years. She holds a double MA in Public Politics and Entrepreneurship.

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