Sales below the surface still prevail in crypto

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Sales below the surface still prevail in crypto

<p class="MsoNormal">Bitcoin failed to build on the gains, rolling back to the levels of two days ago, losing 1.2% in the past 24 hours to $16.5K. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Global markets have been quiet due to US holidays and few meaningful economic publications, allowing the cryptocurrency to continue balancing in a tight range for almost two weeks.</p><p class="MsoNormal">The cryptocurrency market's capitalisation fell by 1% to $827bn overnight. Without a solid positive stock index performance, crypto has nowhere to draw strength for future purchases.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.forexlive.com/terms/b/bitcoin/" target="_blank" id="40c895b3-a119-446c-9ead-2735a79a3f80_2" class="terms__secondary-term">Bitcoin</a> has failed to exploit the inverted head-and-shoulders pattern fully. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Perhaps the reason for that is the lack of big players due to the holidays. </p><p class="MsoNormal">However, the chances are high that it is still because of the ongoing cautious selling in the sector: the big players continue to reduce their positions, probably forgetting about it again for a couple of years. </p><p>News background</p><p class="MsoNormal">The New York Times reported that the troubled cryptocurrency lender Genesis Global Capital is not ruling out bankruptcy. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Genesis has hired investment bank Moelis & Company to explore <a href="https://www.forexlive.com/terms/o/options/" target="_blank" id="d0430eb9-1764-409c-ab53-4952eb20940d_1" class="terms__main-term">options</a>, including filing for insolvency.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Ripple chief technology officer David Schwartz said the community was unlikely to learn a lesson from the FTX collapse and would be cautious going forward. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Changpeng Zhao, head of Binance, allowed for the possibility of buying FTX assets. In an interview with Bloomberg, he said that some of them could still be saved.</p><p class="MsoNormal">The 10,000 BTC stolen from the Mt.Gox exchange, which has been dormant for seven years, is on the move. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Ki Young Ju, a crypto analyst and head of CryptoQuant, made the announcement. In doing so, he commented that it was criminal money. The transaction was the largest since August 2017.</p><p class="MsoNormal">This article was written by <a href="https://www.fxpro.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="article-link">FxPro</a>'s Senior Market Analyst Alex Kuptsikevich.</p>

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