Bitcoin wallet users in El Salvador have reported about vanishing bitcoins from their government-issued cryptocurrency wallet, Chivo. The website tomshardware.com revealed that, as per a plethora of tweets compiled by an individual, around $96,000 worth Bitcoins had gone missing on Chivo up to this point. This problem brings into focus the predicament that countless cryptocurrency users throughout the globe are in when they do not even have access to a reliable wallet and, as a result, misplace their unique crypto keys.
Nevertheless, Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, fell by 2.93% to $48,110.85 on suspicion that certain institutions were unwinding their long positions. Ethereum (ETH) went down 3.11% to $3,827.98, putting it in a similar position to Bitcoin (BTC). The transaction volume of Ethereum increased by 27.63% to $16,281,428,557, according to coinmarketcap statistics as of 9.00 a.m. ET.
“Bitcoin’s value has declined by almost 3% in the previous 24 hours, to approximately $48,000. This price volatility is a consequence of the market’s expectation that an aggregate of 129,800 options contracts, valued at around $6 billion, would lapse on Friday,” explains Gaurav Dahake, CEO and co-founder of Bitbns.
As of 1 p.m. EST, Cardano (ADA) has lost 3.55% to trade at $1.42, while Algorand (ALG), which has been dubbed the “Ethereum killer,” has decis down 4.72 percent at $1.49, bringing its market capitalization to $9,506,232,013. With regards to other prominent currencies, Binance Coin (BNB) has lost 1.92% at $539.51, while Solana (SOL) has dipped 4.41% at $180.39, according to CoinMarketCap. Dogecoin (DOGE) was changing hands at $0.1772 at the time of writing, representing a fall of 1.88%. Shiba Inu (SHIB) has declined 2.17% to $0.00003585, putting it in a competitive position.
Currently ELON is trading at $0.000001517, representing a fall of 7.66%, Floki Inu has lost 6.21%, and Samoyed Coin (SAMO) is trading with a similar loss at $0.04037. In the DeFi category, YFI (yearn.finance) was changing hands at $29,297.05. This represented a 4% loss on the day. Terra (LUNA) closed at $87.43, a decrease of 4.49% from the previous day.
Avalanche (AVAX) on the other hand, had gained 0.31% to trade at $110.41. Additionally, Uniswap (UNI) had appreciated 2% to trade at $19.17. Back in March 24, it was reported that Decentraland (MANA), an interactive virtual platform hosed on the Ethereum blockchain, had partnered with UNXD (a premium marketplace created on the Polygon blockchain) to deliver a unique virtual metaverse fashion week show beginning from March 24 to March 27, according to a tweet from the platform.
During a recent conversation on CNBC, billionaire investor Anthony Pompliano was questioned about the unpredictable characteristic of Bitcoins, and he responded by stating that analysts, investors and market as a whole is viewing bitcoin volatility in the incorrect manner. “Volatility is neither good nor evil, is it?” he was cited as having said.
According to cryptoslate.com, “volatility is only negative when it works against investors, therefore if you are long in an asset and it declines, volatility is not something you enjoy; if you are long in an asset and price goes up, volatility is something you do want,” they said.