Bitcoin slips under $17K, crypto stocks tumble in reaction to FTX bankruptcy


Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and cryptocurrency-linked shares like MicroStrategy are seeing a pointy downturn after information broke that FTX announced filing for Chapter 11 chapter and Sam Bankman-Fried stepped down as CEO. 

Bitcoin, Ether and MicroStrategy comparability. Supply: TradingView

Crypto-linked shares decline

MicroStrategy’s inventory, led by the outspoken Bitcoin advocate Michael Saylor, is down 32.57% on Nov. 11 over a five-day interval. MicroStrategy holds about 130,000 BTC, and due to this fact, its inventory worth is closely correlated with BTC/USD. In the meantime, the tech-heavy Nasdaq has gained 0.79%.

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Mining shares additionally noticed losses on Nov. 11, with the Hashrate Index’s Crypto Mining Inventory Index displaying a 0.14% loss on the time of writing. Prime miners’ market efficiency is way decrease, with Marathon down 4.95%, Riot down 5.74% and Hive down 16.08%.

Mining inventory efficiency sorted by market cap. Supply: Hashrate Index

In the meantime, ETH worth noticed a 22% lower this previous week regardless of Ether changing into deflationary for the first time for the reason that Merge. Over 8,000 ETH has been burned within the final seven days, bringing the yearly fee to -0.354%.

7-day Ether provide statistics. Supply: Extremely Sound Cash

Along with the FTX debacle hindering Ether worth, a mass amount of futures liquidations brought about the worth to hit a fo-month low of $1,070 this week.

Bitcoin worth again beneath June lows

Knowledge from Cointelegraph Markets Pro exhibits Bitcoin has misplaced 20% of its worth up to now week as effectively. As well as, Bitcoin reached a new yearly low of $15,742 because of the FTX collapse.

Bitcoin worth index. Supply: Cointelegraph

Furthermore, Bitcoin’s worth crunch is leading miners to sell at an accelerated fee additional, growing downward strain.

In accordance with Charles Edwards, founding father of the Capriole Fund, Bitcoin miners reached the pink degree on an open-source Bitcoin Miner Promote Stress chart, which exhibits essentially the most promoting in nearly 5 years. 

The uptick in miner promoting has additionally coincided with a Bitcoin whale moving 3,500 BTC for the primary time since 2011.

Is BTC near bottoming?

However analysts are combined on whether or not BTC has bottomed. As an illustration, dealer Mags sees two prospects.

He tweeted:

“Two chance : a) Backside is in already ($15.5k) and we entrance run everybody ready for $14k. b) We see a deep re-test & go means decrease than $14k , possibly $11.5k – $12k”

Different widespread analysts resembling John Wick donu201t consider the underside is in. 

“I gave everybody heads up and stated if this decrease finish of the assist broke that I might quick once more,” he stated. “I additionally talked about that I didn’t assume the lows had been in. I hope you set in your orders forward of time.”