No let up in crypto slide as Celsius halt leaves investors 'panicking'
Source: Reuters
Cryptocurrencies tumbled afresh on Tuesday, with bitcoin and ether falling to new 18-month lows, after major cryptocurrency lending company Celsius Network's freezing of withdrawals delivered the latest jolt to investors in the asset-class.
Bitcoin fell as much as 7.2% to $20,816 its lowest since Dec. 2020, extending Monday's 15% plunge.
The world's largest cryptocurrency is down over 50% year to date and 28% since Friday.
No. 2 token ether lost as much as 10% to $1,075, its lowest since Jan 2021, and smaller tokens have taken even more of a battering.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/technology/no-let-up-crypto-slide-celsius-halt-leaves-investors-panicking-2022-06-14/
Tetrachloride
(7,948 posts)2 months ago. Nervous.
Today. Bank might be closed.
Tomorrow ?
ColinC
(8,371 posts)Justice matters.
(6,968 posts)rpannier
(24,356 posts)For his sake, I hope he doesn't take his pension in crypto as well
disndat
(1,887 posts)is the Mayor going to hide his shady deals?
ColinC
(8,371 posts)Please tell me he isn't that stupid.
Just wow...
paleotn
(18,041 posts)Oneironaut
(5,558 posts)Oneironaut
(5,558 posts)C Moon
(12,230 posts)Coins found in King Tut's tomb.
Xipe Totec
(43,905 posts)paleotn
(18,041 posts)The favored medium of exchange for thieves, drug dealers, cybercriminals and assorted blaggards everywhere.
Mr. Evil
(2,872 posts)The early birds get the worms. The late birds get the early birds shit.
ColinC
(8,371 posts)When people win, it resets to zero because they cash out. Then folks start buying crypto again (like tickets) and accumulating until the next jackpots are taken out.
disndat
(1,887 posts)PSPS
(13,662 posts)Notice how it says, "freezing of withdrawals." Note that this applies only to those joining after the founding (i.e., not Alex, Aslihan and Rod.)
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)Frasier Balzov
(2,704 posts)And isn't he still obligated to buy Twitter stock at something like 30 percent above its current market value?
Man, when it rains it pours.
oioioi
(1,127 posts)It would be poetic justice if this dickhead crashes and burns - like his cars (and rockets) do.
former9thward
(32,238 posts)He can terminate the contract and pay a one billion dollar fee. However it would not cost him that. His Tesla stock is down quite a bit due to the market fearing he will have to sell a lot of his holdings to pay for Twitter. If he backs out of the Twitter deal the Tesla stock will likely go back up and Musk would gain far more than one billion.
eppur_se_muova
(36,320 posts)Although perhaps "Tulipmania" is a more familiar concept.
(Gibson actually used his term to refer to a full-immersion GUI interface to cyberspace. Still fictional, so far. Neural implants required.)
rpannier
(24,356 posts)and are watching it slide
Would love it if Elon Musk loses almost all of what he bought
Wish there was a way to decouple his loses from theirs
Lettuce Be
(2,337 posts)He was convinced by a friend whose dad is a broker that Bitcoin would go up to heaven, period. Nary a thought it could ever go down. No idea how much he had in Bitcoin but he's losing it all. Pretty sure he never thought to sell as it went down down down.
Orrex
(63,333 posts)Deminpenn
(15,311 posts)Dr Phil had 3 young cryptocurrency investors on his show along with a crypto skeptic. The young investors kept touting how rich they were while the skeptic kept warning it was a ponzi-type scheme and would eventually collapse or something to that effect. Wonder if those young investors are still so bullish?
modrepub
(3,513 posts)because they haven't been exposed to any severe market fluctuations. You really should be listening to brokers/traders who've been around the block many times. By being in the market for decades, they've demonstrated they've been through and survived severe market shocks.
To be honest, it's better to see what older established traders are buying and holding than listening to what they are saying.
paleotn
(18,041 posts)wolfie001
(2,363 posts)....Canada's second largest pension fund is invested with this company.
OnlinePoker
(5,731 posts)This was gambling, pure and simple.
disndat
(1,887 posts)on cryptocurrency. He said it is a Ponzi scheme like the
subprimes in the early 2000s. Mostly the attracting the vulnerables' money.
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