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Bitcoin fell below $ 79,000 when investors prepared for greater financial market volatility after the American levels have suffered their worst decline since 2020 on the deployment of the restrictive global tariffs of President Donald Trump.
Bitcoin’s price was the last of 4% to $ 78,835.07, according to local metrics, after exchanging above $ 80,000 for most of this year – except for a few briefs below in the middle of recent volatility. It is broken from January to all time of approximately 34%.
The flagship cryptocurrency is generally negotiated as a large technological actions and is often considered by traders as a main indicator of the feeling of the market, but last week, it was the subject of the wider collapse of the market – holding between $ 82,000 and $ 83,000 and increasing to finish the week as the actions fell and even the gold has dropped.
Other cryptocurrencies have undergone greater losses overnight. Ether And the token attached to Solara Tumbled about 10% each.
The drop in Bitcoin has sparked a wave of long liquidations, while merchants betting on an increase in its price were forced to sell their assets to cover their losses. In the past 24 hours, Bitcoin has experienced more than $ 181 million in long liquidations, according to Coinglass. Ether experienced $ 188 million in long liquidations during the same period.
Bitcoin exchanged mainly above $ 80,000 in 2025
The shaken investors have thrown their assets of cryptocurrencies, which are negotiated 24 hours, during the weekend, while they were planning additional carnage, after Trump’s reprisal rates have raised fears of the global recession and pushed investors to sell all risks.
Rights on all imports, in addition to personalized prices for the main trade partners, have aroused concerns about a world trade war that could lead the United States to a recession. As increasing concerns about the large -scale impact of prices have sent markets in shock from around the world.
During the two sessions that followed the tariff announcement, global stocks were 7.46 billions of dollars of market value based on the market capitalization of the global S&P market index, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices.
This figure includes 5.87 billions of dollars lost on the US stock market during these two sessions and another loss of 1.59 billion of dollars of market value on other major world markets.
Bitcoin is down 15% in 2025 and, in the absence of a specific catalyst for crypto, should continue to move in tandem with actions, because the world recession fears eclipse any regulatory crypto of the rear winds of the tail should benefit from this year.
