The crypto industry’s hopes for a new Bitcoin (BTC) rally during last week’s Bitcoin 2022 event in Miami haven’t lived up to expectations; the leading cryptocurrency slipped below $42,000 on Monday morning to levels last seen on March 22.
Bitcoin is trading at $41,532 at time of going to press, with data from ЦоинМаркетЦап showing that the benchmark cryptocurrency is down 2.36% over the past 24 hours and 9.65% in the last week.
The Bitcoin 2022 conference, which gathered thousands of crypto enthusiasts and executives from dozens of Bitcoin-focused companies, saw several important announcements, including Cash App’s direct deposit feature, enabling employees to receive wages in Bitcoin, and Мрежа муње-based crypto payment platform Strike’s интеграција with e-commerce giant Shopify.
Unlike last year’s event, which saw El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele announcing his country would усвојити Битцоин као законско средство плаћања, none of the news coming out of the conference has served to boost the цена Битцоина.
Moreover, as the 7-day chart shows, Bitcoin peaked above $47,000 on April 5, only to hit the skids in the following days. A brief spike above $43,300 failed to result in an extended breakout either.
Ethereum slumps alongside Bitcoin
The rest of the crypto market has followed suit, with the second-biggest cryptocurrency by market cap, Ethereum (ETH) down 5% on the day, currently changing hands at $3,076.
Цена Етхереума has slipped by over 11% over the last seven days, with former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes predicting that by the end of June ETH may well test the $2,500 level.
While admitting that “there isn’t much science to these numbers other than a gut feeling,” Hayes pointed to the fact that both BTC and ETH are “highly correlated” to the tech-focused Nasdaq 100 (NDX) stock market index, which is довн КСНУМКС% since last Tuesday.
“If the NDX tanks, it will take crypto down with it,” wrote Hayes in a блог пост.
The former BitMEX chief also expects broader “crypto carnage” that will take the price of Bitcoin as low as $30,000.
На другом месту, Земља’s LUNA is the hardest hit among the top 10 cryptocurrencies, dropping 8.17% on the day, followed by Лавина’s AVAX, which slipped 7.39%.
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Source: https://decrypt.co/97430/bitcoin-ethereum-slip-to-three-week-lows