Crypto pessimism up after Bitcoin falls below $17,000

Bloomberg

Bitcoin dropped back below $17,000 and several smaller cryptocurrencies referred to as altcoins posted significantly steeper declines as concern increases that the digital-asset market’s woes are far from over.
The largest token dropped as much as 3.7% to $16,762. Bitcoin reached its highest price since Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire filed for bankruptcy last month.
Ether declined as much as 6.3%, while other altcoins like Avalanche and Solana dropped as well.
Cryptocurrencies dipped alongside US stocks as the economy weathers the Federal Reserve’s aggressive tightening. The drop reverses a brief relief rally that pared back some of the token’s November losses. Since the start of the year, Bitcoin has declined roughly 65%.
Fairlead Strategies Senior Analyst Will Tamplin said that the token is at risk of re-approaching its November lows. Then, it sank to its lowest price since November 2020.
Noelle Acheson, author of the of the “Crypto is Macro Now” newsletter, wrote that investors remain skittish about the fates of other crypto-related companies, including Binance Holdings Ltd. and Digital Currency Group, parent company of troubled crypto broker Genesis. Binance’s BNB token was down 6.3%, and has slumped about 50% in the past year.
“There may be some ugly contagion news yet to drop,” Acheson wrote. “But most investors who were going to sell have done so.”
Shares of companies tied to the digital-asset world continued to be under pressure.k