Bitcoin Miner Prices Likely to Keep Stressing Crypto Sector
Strategists at JP Morgan warned this week that miners can create pressure on the price of Bitcoin.
Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou led the group that issued the stark warning on Friday.
“Offloading of Bitcoins by miners, in order to meet ongoing costs or to delever, could continue into Q3 if their profitability fails to improve. That offloading has likely already weighed on prices in May and June, though there is a risk that this pressure could continue,” the strategists wrote.
As of Friday, miners had dumped an amount of 18,251 BTC equivalent to $391,984,027.
Bitcoin had stabilized in recent days, sitting right around $21100 late Saturday morning EST.
Massive Layoffs, Terraform Labs Faces New Lawsuit, Twetch Sells Out Cozy Hoodie
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Unless you've been living under a rock these past three weeks, it's no secret that crypto markets have been stressed tested. With panicking investors, the number of crypto liquidations has increased.
As a result, multiple digital currency exchanges have announced layoffs following a series of digital assets pitfalls and plunges in what is often being described as the ‘crypto winter', in the middle of summer for those of us in the northern hemisphere no less.
Meanwhile, another lawsuit awaits Terraform Labs and its founder Do Kwon, who are now accused of misleading investors over the $60 billion wipeout of Luna stablecoin.
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“The economic policy of the country is essentially magical thinking,” Muci says. “They’ve spooked the bejesus out of financial markets and the IMF."
Gambling911.com will recall that Bukele bet it all on Bitcoin and a flawed city plan that would have capitalized on the crypto craze right down to the nearby volcano providing an energy source. Forget that the region lacks proper sewage treatment currently.
- Aaron Goldstein, Gambling911.com
