{"id":1499,"date":"2022-05-27T18:58:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T18:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prendergast.net\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2022-05-27T18:58:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T18:58:28","slug":"the-price-of-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prendergast.net\/?p=1499","title":{"rendered":"THE PRICE OF BITCOIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;What happens to bitcoin, what is the price, and why did it fall so badly, the answers are multiple but also questions are many.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">Bitcoin is the world&rsquo;s first decentralized cryptocurrency, a type of digital asset that uses&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/how-public-key-infrastructure-will-revolutionize-custody-and-fund-management\/\">p<\/a>ublic-public&nbsp;key cryptography to record, sign and send transactions over the Bitcoin&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/learn\/what-is-blockchain-technology\/\">b<\/a>lockchain&nbsp;all done without the oversight of a central authority. It&rsquo;s the original and most valuable cryptocurrency by far, despite its huge &mdash; and normal swings in recent months, ranging in value from less than $30,000 to more than $60,000. Bitcoin has also seen a lot of new investors, with more than half of all&nbsp;having bought in the past year.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">It is also certain that the price now at this moment when I am writing this&nbsp;is&nbsp;$28,320.50, a change of&nbsp;-4.30% over the past 24 hours. The recent price action in&nbsp;Bitcoin&nbsp;left the&nbsp;token&rsquo;s&nbsp;market capitalization at&nbsp;$539,510,082,593.91&nbsp;USD. So far this year,&nbsp;Bitcoin&nbsp;has a change of&nbsp;-37.87%.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"background-color:white\"><span style=\"color:#373737\">The leading crypto Bitcoin is struggling to fully recover after weeks of losses<\/span>. Bitcoin price&nbsp;<span style=\"color:#373737\">crashed below $26,000 in early May amid a broader market sell-off of risky assets but has risen slightly a little many are saying&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"background-color:white\"><span style=\"color:#373737\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\">all is because&nbsp;of the struggles and crash of TerraUSD (UST), one of the largest stablecoins, which play a big role in Bitcoin&rsquo;s recent crash. Stablecoins are intended to bring stability to the crypto markets and <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\">have a similar value<\/span><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"background-color:white\"><span style=\"color:#373737\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\">&nbsp;to hold as close to the U.S. dollar as possible, but the UST dropped below 12 cents in early May and many investors on the market panicked and sold off their coins. The Terra blockchain has officially halted and UST has remained de-pegged from the U.S. dollar since May<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<pre>\n<span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\">To return to the question posed where will the price of bitcoin go I think no one knows, we can speculate about this, but still, it is good to believe in what bitcoin means for us crypto <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">investors <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\">and what benefits it brings to the whole planet in implementing cryptocurrency, how the money transfer is faster and safer and how they eliminate the <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">bank fees and other problems of the Bank system.<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">So believe in Bitcoin and don&#39;t sell wait .<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">&nbsp;I&nbsp;believed the bitcoin will come back stronger than ever,<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">in the end, I&nbsp; want to end with a quote &quot;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\">&nbsp;People give value to things &quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/markethive.com\/uploads\/florinsasu\/images\/posted-images\/B%20(1).jpg\" style=\"height:187px; width:270px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Tim Moseley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;What happens to bitcoin, what is the price, and why did it fall so badly, the answers are multiple but also questions are many. Bitcoin is the world&rsquo;s first decentralized cryptocurrency, a type of digital asset that uses&nbsp;public-public&nbsp;key cryptography to record, sign and send transactions over the Bitcoin&nbsp;blockchain&nbsp;all done without the oversight &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/prendergast.net\/?p=1499\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THE PRICE OF BITCOIN<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prendergast.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prendergast.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prendergast.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prendergast.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prendergast.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prendergast.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prendergast.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prendergast.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prendergast.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}