{"id":250393,"date":"2025-11-08T01:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T01:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/250393\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T01:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T01:53:13","slug":"bitcoin-is-falling-as-900-billion-crypto-sell-off-sparks-price-crash-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/250393\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Is Falling As $900 Billion Crypto Sell-Off Sparks Price-Crash Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin has dropped sharply from its all-time highs, losing 20% of its value in a month an plunging it into bear market territory\u2014with the decline raising fears of a nightmare scenario for the bitcoin price<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The bitcoin price, having topped $126,000 per bitcoin in October, plummeted under $100,000 this week before bouncing back slightly (in part thanks to U.S. president Donald Trump issuing a stark China warning<\/a>) though the combined crypto market remains $900 billion lower than its early October level 0f $4.3 trillion.<\/p>\n

Now, as traders brace for the stock market to follow bitcoin lower<\/a>, the bitcoin price has dropped back under $100,000\u2014causing even the most steadfast bitcoin bulls to question their conviction.<\/p>\n

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ForbesA Bitcoin Price Crash Nightmare Is Suddenly Coming TrueBy Billy Bambrough<\/a>\"bitcoin,<\/p>\n

The bitcoin price plummeted under $100,000 per bitcoin, sending shockwaves through the bitcoin and crypto market.<\/p>\n

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The gloomy state of the bitcoin market was laid bare by researchers with analytics company CryptoQuant, who told<\/a> The Block they can see bitcoin crashing to $72,000 before the end of the year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 365-day moving average has acted as the ultimate support level so far this bull cycle, and was one of the last signals triggered as the bear market began in December 2021\u2013January 2022,\u201d CryptoQuant researchers wrote in a report this week. “A failure to cross back above the 365-day moving average quickly could trigger a much larger correction in bitcoin\u2019s price.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bitcoin price \u201cflash crash\u201d on October 10\u2014sending the bitcoin price more than 10% lower in just a matter of hours\u2014sapped confidence among many of the recent bitcoin buyers, specifically the likes of Michael Saylor\u2019s Strategy and bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), led by BlackRock.<\/p>\n

\u201cSlowing bitcoin flows are a major factor influencing the market\u2019s current direction. Demand from digital asset treasuries like Strategy, that supported crypto prices through the summer, is decelerating,\u201d Thomas Perfumo, Kraken global economist, said in emailed comments.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrypto ETFs have also experienced significant outflows, despite skewing bullish during prior months of choppy price action. While the market was stabilizing after the October 10 liquidation event, this latest ‘reset\u2019 event certainly reduced short-term risk tolerance further.\u201d<\/p>\n

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ForbesTrump Just Issued A \u2018Very Big\u2019 China Warning As Crypto Braces For A Major $100,000 Bitcoin Price CrashBy Billy Bambrough<\/a><\/p>\n

The bitcoin price has dropped sharply over the last month, leading to many betting the bitcoin price will fail to perform as they expected.<\/p>\n

Forbes Digital Assets<\/p>\n

Bitcoin bulls have meanwhile trimmed their bitcoin price targets this week as bitcoin plummets under $100,000 and so far shows few signs of recovery.<\/p>\n

Stablecoins “scaling here much faster than anyone would have expected,” was named by Ark Invest\u2019s Cathie Wood as her reason for reducing her “$1.5 million by 2030″ bitcoin price target by $300,000. \u201cStablecoins are usurping part of the role that we thought bitcoin would play [in emerging markets],” Wood told<\/a> CNBC.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, analysts with Michael Novogratz\u2019s Galaxy Digital slashed<\/a> their end-of-year target for bitcoin from $185,000 to $120,000.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin has entered a new “maturity era,” in which \u201cinstitutional absorption, passive flows, and lower volatility will dominate,” they wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bitcoin has dropped sharply from its all-time highs, losing 20% of its value in a month an plunging…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[779,46581,46580,84,42746,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-250393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-bitcoin","9":"tag-bitcoin-crash","10":"tag-bitcoin-price","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-crypto","13":"tag-gb","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}