Selling pressure once again hit the crypto market on Friday, after stock markets in Asia and US stock futures all pointed lower on fears over a new variant of the coronavirus that is spreading in South Africa.
At 10:28 UTC, bitcoin (BTC) was down by 6.5% over the past 24 hours, trading at a price of USD 54,735. At the same time, ethereum (ETH) was down by 6.4% to a price of USD 4,077.
Both cryptoassets fell today after seeing gains yesterday, with the sentiment then appearing to be turning positive after two weeks of mostly lower prices for bitcoin.
Following today’s sell-off, however, bitcoin is now trading below its low from Tuesday this week of USD 55,300, which at the time marked the lowest price since October 13. With today’s crash down
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