Ethereum [ETH] Flash Crash a 13$ en el GDAX de Coinbase - Crypto Economy ESP (2024)

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Why did Ethereum drop to 10 cents? ›

2017 Ethereum Flash Crash

On June 22, 2017, the price of Ethereum, the second-largest digital cryptocurrency, dropped from more than $300 to as low as $0.10 in minutes at GDAX exchange. Suspected for market manipulation or an account takeover at first, later investigation by GDAX claimed no indication of wrongdoing.

A flash crash is a type of stock market crash, in which prices plummet then rebound rapidly. Flash crashes are typically attributed to high-frequency trading, which enables the automatic buying and selling of securities in large volumes.

A flash crash is a phenomenon where an asset at least briefly trades far below its typical market price, often as a result of automated trading strategies and mismatches in liquidity or a very unequal ratio of buyers to sellers.

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ETH price dropped over 8% in the past 24 hours, driven by a growing sell-the-news sentiment following the launch of Ethereum ETFs. The “newborn” eight ETFs didn't manage to outrun the $327 million of outflows from Grayscale's recently converted Ethereum Trust.

Ether's 30-day average correlation coefficient with Bitcoin stands at around 0.90, showing its higher likelihood of mirroring the top cryptocurrency's market trends, a major reason why its prices are going down today. Growing risk aversion sentiment is further hurting ETH's prices.

A flash crash is a financial event in which a rapid withdrawal of stock orders or sales leads to a sudden and drastic fall in prices, followed by recovery within a few minutes or hours, typically on the same day. This event is usually typical of electronic securities markets.

Indian Markets: Flash trading is banned by SEBI and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)in Indian stock markets and by RBI in Forex markets. US Markets: Although flash orders are legal in the US, the SEC restricts certain types of them to ensure fairness in trading.

The worst stock market crash happened in 1929. It produced the largest decline from top to bottom (89%) and was a catalyst for the Great Depression. On a percentage basis, the worst day in stock market history was on October 19, 1987. The S&P 500 plunged 20.5% while the Dow cratered 22.6%.

So, who are the top holders of BTC? According to the Bitcoin research and analysis firm River Intelligence, Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creator behind Bitcoin, is listed as the top BTC holder as of 2024. The company notes that Satoshi Nakamoto holds about 1.1m BTC tokens in about 22,000 different addresses.

Will crypto bounce back? ›

Cryptocurrency has made a surprising turnaround in the past year and, with more U.S. institutions accessing the digital currency, its future is trending up.

2017 boom and 2018 crash. The 2018 cryptocurrency crash (also known as the Bitcoin crash and the Great crypto crash) was the sell-off of most cryptocurrencies starting in January 2018. After an unprecedented boom in 2017, the price of Bitcoin fell by about 65% from 6 January to 6 February 2018.

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The sell-off was broad-based, with DOGE, SHIB, AVAX, LINK diving more than 4% in less than an hour. A trading firm's $27 million sell order for ether could have triggered the decline, one market observer speculated. A rampant U.S. dollar after a PMI report showed a red-hot U.S. economy may have accelerated the drop.

Ethereum Price Summaries

Ethereum's price today is US$3,253.34, with a 24-hour trading volume of $15.4 B. ETH is +0.28% in the last 24 hours. It is currently -8.60% from its 7-day all-time high of $3,559.28, and 5.26% from its 7-day all-time low of $3,090.82. ETH has a circulating supply of 120.23 M ETH.

In August 2014, Ethereum launched its native token, ether, through an initial coin offering (ICO). Some 50 million ETHs were sold at a price of $0.31 per coin, raising over $16 million for the project.

At the start of the sale and for fourteen days the price was set so that one bitcoin bought 2,000 ether. At the end of the 14-day period the amount would decline linearly to a final rate of 1,337 ether, which meant that one ether was worth 0.0007479 bitcoin or about 30 cents at bitcoin prices in September 2014.