Bitcoin Loses $7K Footing Amid Market-Wide Price Correction
Thursday, August 30: following the week’s brief uptick, crypto markets are today seeing widespread corrections, with the top ten coins by market cap losing between 1.5 and 5 percent on the day. All but 13 minor alts among the top 100 ranked cryptos are in the red, as Coin360 data shows.
Bitcoin (BTC) is trading at around $6,942 at press time, down1.52 percent on the day, according to Cointelegraph’s Bitcoin price index.
Having broken through the much-fêted $7,000 threshold earlier this week, the top coin has seen a slump set in as of yesterday, August 29.