Bitcoin slips under $17K, crypto stocks tumble responding to FTX personal bankruptcy

Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and cryptocurrency-linked stocks like MicroStrategy are visiting a sharp downturn after news broke that FTX announced declaring Chapter 11 personal bankruptcy and Mike Bankman-Fried walked lower as Chief executive officer. 

Bitcoin, Ether and MicroStrategy comparison. Source: TradingView

Crypto-linked stocks decline

MicroStrategy’s stock, brought through the blunt Bitcoin advocate Michael Saylor, is lower 32.57% on November. 11 more than a five-day period. MicroStrategy holds about 130,000 BTC, and for that reason, its stock cost is heavily correlated with BTC/USD. Meanwhile, the tech-heavy Nasdaq has acquired .79%.

Mining stocks also saw losses on November. 11, using the Hashrate Index’s Crypto Mining Stock Index showing a .14% loss during the time of writing. Top miners’ market performance is a lot lower, with Marathon lower 4.95%, Riot lower 5.74% and Hive lower 16.08%.

Mining stock performance sorted by market cap. Source: Hashrate Index

Meanwhile, ETH cost saw a 22% decrease earlier this week despite Ether becoming deflationary the very first time because the Merge. Over 8,000 ETH continues to be burned within the last 7 days, getting the yearly rate to -.354%.

7-day Ether supply statistics. Source: Ultra Seem Money

Additionally towards the FTX debacle hindering Ether cost, a mass quantity of futures liquidations caused the cost hitting a fo-month low of $1,070 now.

Bitcoin cost back below June lows

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro shows Bitcoin has lost 20% of their value previously week too. Additionally, Bitcoin arrived at a brand new yearly low of $15,742 because of the FTX collapse.

Bitcoin cost index. Source: Cointelegraph

Furthermore, Bitcoin’s cost crunch is leading miners to market in an faster rate further, growing downward pressure.

Based on Charles Edwards, founding father of the Capriole Fund, Bitcoin miners arrived at the red level with an open-source Bitcoin Miner Sell Pressure chart, which shows probably the most selling in almost 5 years. 

The uptick in miner selling has additionally coincided having a Bitcoin whale moving 3,500 BTC for the very first time since 2011.

Is BTC near to bottoming?

But analysts are mixed on whether BTC has bottomed. For example, trader Mags sees two options.

He tweeted:

“Two possibility : a) Bottom is within already ($15.5k) so we front run everybody awaiting $14k. b) We have seen an in-depth re-test &amp go way less than $14k , maybe $11.5k – $12k”

Other popular analysts for example John Wick donu201t believe the underside is within. 

“I gave everybody manages and stated if the lower finish from the support broke which i would short again,” he stated. “I also pointed out that I didn’t think the lows were in. I think you’ll place in your orders in advance.”

The views and opinions expressed listed here are exclusively individuals from the author and don’t always reflect the views of Cointelegraph.com. Every investment and buying and selling move involves risk, you need to conduct your personal research when making the decision.

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