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What Has Caused the Bitcoin Price to Drop Below $7,000 in the Past 48 Hours?

Joseph Young by Joseph Young
2 years ago
in Bitcoin, Technical analysis
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What Has Caused the Bitcoin Price to Drop Below $7,000 in the Past 48 Hours?
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Over the past 48 hours, the Bitcoin price has dropped by more than eight percent from $7,500 to $6,890, despite having seen some of the most positive developments in the history of the crypto market.

Bitcoin 1-day price chart, provided by Cryptowat.ch

OTC Sell-Off

The vast majority of short-term traders and casual investors utilize cryptocurrency exchanges such as Coinbase, Bitfinex, Binance, OKEx, Huobi, and UPbit to buy and sell major digital assets. Developments in the cryptocurrency sector pertaining to merchant adoption, institutionalization of cryptocurrencies, and technical breakthroughs can have a significant impact on the cryptocurrency exchange market.

However, according to Tabb Group’s report, the over-the-counter (OTC) market of Bitcoin is incomparably larger than its exchange market, by at least two to three-fold. Hence, if the cryptocurrency exchange market only accounts for 25 percent of the global market’s liquidity or volume, it is more likely that large-scale retail traders in the OTC market are manipulating the price of Bitcoin, rather than individual investors in the public exchange market.

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If the OTC market’s dominance is accurately measured, then it also opens up an argument about the causation of price movements in the Bitcoin market. Specifically, it is difficult to justify the short-term movements of Bitcoin and other digital assets based on developments in the cryptocurrency sector because news can only have an impact on a market that moves swiftly and can reflect the result of timely events, such as the approval of an ETF or the integration of cryptocurrencies by a large retailer.

The OTC market, due to the sheer size of its orders, move slowly, often with the involvement of agents and brokers. Billionaire investors and institutions that intend to purchase at least several thousand BTC rely on the OTC market to process large orders, because doing so in the cryptocurrency exchange market could lead the price of Bitcoin to experience intensified movements on both the upside and downside.

If a large order in the OTC market is liquidated, it takes the public cryptocurrency exchange market a few days to reflect. As such, it is possible that most of the sell-offs seen in the cryptocurrency exchange market, as seen in the case of July 27 and August 7, are likely caused by the liquidation of large orders in the OTC market, rather than an abrupt switch in trend in the public cryptocurrency exchange market that cannot be tied to a certain event.

Market Manipulation

In the past 48 hours, the cryptocurrency sector has seen the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Starbucks, and Microsoft, the world’s largest stock market, coffee retailer, and technology conglomerate, lead a collaborative effort to increase the usability of digital assets for casual users and the mainstream.

The NYSE emphasized that Bitcoin has the potential to become the first worldwide currency of the world, competing against reserve currencies and government-backed fiat money.

”Bitcoin would greatly simplify the movement of global money. It has the potential to become the first worldwide currency,” ICE founder, Chairman, and CEO Jeffrey Sprecher said.

It is plausible that the OTC market has substantially increased the volatility of the market with the liquidation of large buy and sell orders, and in a period like this, it can be said with certainty that developments and news are not affecting the cryptocurrency market and its valuation.

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