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It has been a rough couple of days for the crypto streets as Bitcoin (BTC) experienced a flash crash over the weekend, nosediving nearly 15 percent in less than 50 minutes on Saturday, just days after reaching the All-time high of $64,870.
The hashrate of Bitcoin mining pools plummeted in 24 hours. Antpools fell by 24.5%, https://t.co/1YRYr58dLy fell by 18.9%, Poolin fell by 33%, Binance pools fell by 20%. The reason is that Northwest China is undergoing a complete blackout for safety inspections. pic.twitter.com/vaWgYsMEFH
— Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) April 16, 2021
Other sought-after cryptocurrencies, including Ethereum (ETH) and Dogecoin also fell in a thrilling way, before hitting recovery and recouping some of their losses.
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In the meantime, Bitcoin has subsequently pared some of the losses of the weekend and was trading above $56,000 at the time of writing.
Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency, also dropped below its bellyaching $2,000 mark over the weekend, before hitting recovery. Other currencies, including the Binance Coin, XRP and Cardano, also got buffeted by the volatility.
Meanwhile, the joke-turned-digital-asset, Dogecoin, is enjoying a nice surge since mid-April, all but thanks to another Elon Musk tweet.
Dogecoin, which has limited use and no fundamentals, rallied last week to be worth as much as $50 billion, before hitting a landfill on Saturday. Despite the hit, the fan-favorite digital currency climbed back into recovery, surging 20 percent in the past 24 hours.
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According to the math, the weekend carnage came after cryptocurrencies surged past $2.25 trillion, due to a ridiculous demand for digital assets at the beginning of last week.
“The crypto world is waking up with a bit of a sore head today,” said Antoni Trenchev, co-founder of crypto lender Nexo. “Dogecoin’s 100% Friday rally was ‘peak party,’ after the Bitcoin record and Coinbase listing earlier in the week. Euphoria was in the air. And usually, in the crypto world, there’s a price to pay when that happens”.
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