Cryptocurrency Markets Lost $18 Billion Overnight

**DamianTV** · 08-12-2018, 02:29 AM

https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/0...lion-overnight

An anonymous reader quotes CryptoCoinsNews:

Over the past 24 hours, the crypto market has recorded a loss of $18 billion, as major cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ether, EOS, and Bitcoin Cash dropped by 4 to 13 percent. While Bitcoin ended the day with a 4 percent decline in its value, Ether, the native cryptocurrency of Ethereum, plummeted by 13 percent against the US dollar, becoming one of the worst performing major cryptocurrencies alongside NEO. Tokens recorded the steepest drop in their value on August 11, as most Ethereum-based tokens such as Theta Token, Aion, Pundi X, Aelf, DigixDAO, WanChain, and VeChain recorded a drop of around 14 to 18 percent

For the first time in 2018, Bitcoin, the most dominant cryptocurrency in the global market, has obtained 50 percent of the market share, securing its year-to-date (YTD) high on the dominance index. The sudden increase in the dominance index of Bitcoin which coincided with the spike in the volume of Tether have demonstrated that investors have become reluctant towards taking high-risk and high-return trades, mostly due to the lack of confidence in the short-term trend of the market. Over the past few weeks, tokens have lost over 50 percent of their value against Bitcoin, which has also fallen by more than 20 percent since late July.

"During this 13-day stretch, the total market cap for all cryptocurrencies has fallen $70 billion," reports MarketPlace, in an article headlined "Bitcoin looks 'very sick' and the pain is not over, says analyst."

**Zippyjuan** · 08-12-2018, 01:58 PM

If you want to try to make money via speculation, volatility can be a good thing (assuming you guess on the right side of it). If you hope to use crypto as money, volatility is a bad thing. That will keep in in the speculative buyers arena and away transactions use and speculation makes it even more volatile. That means its value is not as money but as a hope somebody will pay more for it than you bought it for. Like Beanie Babies.