© Reuters. Market Makers Have Been Running Bots To Sell BTC On Coinbase
- Data from CryptoQuant shows that market makers (MMs) have been running trading bots to sell (BTC) on Coinbase (NASDAQ:).
- According to CoinMarketCap, BTC’s price has dropped 11.13% in the last 24 hours.
- BTC’s price movement has dragged prices of popular altcoins down in the last 24 hours.
According to data from CryptoQuant, market makers (MMs) have been running trading bots to sell Bitcoin (BTC) on Coinbase for the last 45 days. The continued selling of BTC has seen its price drop even lower in the last 24 hours according to crypto market tracker CoinMarketCap.
Market makers sell BTC with bots on Coinbase Source:CryptoQuant
According to CoinMarketCap, BTC’s price has dropped 11.13% in the last 24 hours. This adds to its over 30% drop over the last 7 days as well. The market cap of the market leader currently stands around $344.91 billion and, at the time of writing, the price of BTC has broken below $20k to $18,127.80.
This is the first time since 2020 that BTC’s price has broken below the $20k level, which is a level that was set as an all-time high back in 2017.
Looking at other statistics for the largest crypto by market cap, its 24-hour trading volume has risen 78.01% to take the total to $44,605,716,357.
BTC’s price drop is dragging down prices in the rest of the crypto market as major altcoins all experienced a drop in price too over the last 24 hours. Ethereum’s (ETH) price has dropped 11.58%, (BNB) is down 9.54%; (ADA) is also down by 8.82%, and 5.29%.
(DOGE) and (SOL) are also down during this time period. However, SOL is only down 1.68%.
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