Bitcoin jumped 30% to about $ 30,000 at the same time on Wednesday, continuing to sell heavily in cryptocurrency markets that started last week.
Digital currency fell to $ 30,001.51 as sales tightened Wednesday before setting some of these losses. The cryptocurrency has not traded in those levels since late January.
Bitcoin is back as the day progresses, dropping by 12% to about $ 38,205.49 just after 3 p.m. ET. Under intraday, cryptocurrency losses last week were more than 40%.
The sharp decline means that bitcoin has temporarily canceled all its profits following Tesla's announcement that it will buy $ 1.5 billion in cryptocurrency. It has dropped more than 50% since hitting a record high of $ 64,829 in mid-April.
Some cryptocurrencies also sank on Wednesday. Ether, the digital currency that empowers the Ethereum blockchain, was less than 22% below $ 2,620.97, according to Coin Metrics. Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency that started out as a joke and mentioned by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, dropped 25% to less than 36 cents. They both had a very big loss at the start of the session.
Additionally, the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase was temporarily low for some users as the coins sank on Monday morning.
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The bad news last week diminished the feeling of bitcoin.
On May 12, Musk said the electric car maker stopped buying cars using bitcoin, citing environmental concerns over a so-called computational "mining" process. This is where high-powered computers are used to solve complex mathematical puzzles to make transactions using bitcoin.
Musk's comments led to the removal of more than $ 300 billion from the entire cryptocurrency market that day.
Musk suggested on Wednesday that the carmaker was not selling its existing bitcoin, saying in an emoji on Twitter that Tesla "had diamond hands." That tweet was published near the low bitcoin times of the day.
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The announcement of the suspension of bitcoin payments came just three months after Tesla announced it had purchased $ 1.5 billion, and would begin accepting bitcoin in exchange for its products.
Earlier this week, a Tesla manager suggested that the company may have sold its bitcoin capture but later clarified that it "did not sell any Bitcoin."
On Tuesday, three Chinese banking institutions and paying companies issued a statement warning financial institutions not to engage in any business related to financial transactions, including trading or exchanging cryptocurrency fiat currencies.
China's tough line of digital finance is not new. In 2017, authorities banned local cryptocurrency currency trading and banned the so-called first-hand cash flow (ICOs), which is a way for companies in this position to earn money by issuing new digital tokens.
Chinese traders once had a large share of the bitcoin market but after the attack, their influence declined sharply. China's banking operations have spread abroad.
“The crypto markets are currently considering the issue of evidence problems in price development,” said Ulrik Lykke, executive director of crypto hedge fund ARK36.
More than $ 250 billion was lost in the bitcoin market alone last week, Lykke said. While that number seems to be a "star," such a move is rare in a volatile crypto market, he added.
"From the point of view of Bitcoin, things may look bad now, but historically this is just another obstacle to winning Bitcoin and a little bit compared to what we already had," Lykke said.
Bitcoin is still up by more than 30% year-on-day and about 300% in the last 12 months
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