Bitcoin Hovers Near $28,000‍

With speculation that major central banks may have to halt raising rates in the face of mounting economic anxiety, bitcoin traded all around $28,000 mark.

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Prior to it, the biggest cryptocurrency experienced a brief jump of 3% downward after Binance stopped all spot trade on its platform due to a technical issue. The company announced that exchange trading would start up again around 10 a.m. After the more than two-hour break, New York time.

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To $28,130, Bitcoin was up less than 1%. With Ether down 2.4% and the alternative coins Cardano and Solana all down roughly 2.5%, other tokens also fell.

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Friday's meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council will be attended by the leaders of the major US financial regulators, according to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Once its shares fell because to worries about the sector, Deutsche Bank became the latest target of the upheaval. As Trade Algo reported, Credit Suisse and UBS are two of the companies being investigated by the US Justice Department to see whether bankers assisted Russian oligarchs in evading sanctions. This put pressure on lenders.

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The biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the world is Binance. In the previous 24 hours, it processed a spot trade volume of almost $14.9 billion, according to data monitor CoinGecko. Its derivatives platform is substantially bigger, with a 24-hour volume of $64.7 billion, and it seemed unaffected.

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Initial investigation revealed that Binance's matching engine "encountered a flaw on a trailing stop order," according to Changpeng Zhao, chief executive of the company. As per usual operating procedure, withdrawals and deposits were halted.

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Prior to Wednesday, Bitcoin had been on an incredible run, rising to almost $29,000 despite a number of enforcement actions against cryptocurrency companies that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had announced. The cryptocurrency has increased by about 70% so far this year, exceeding gains by smaller tokens in an unusual way.

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Conor Ryder, a research associate at blockchain data company Kaiko, wrote in a note on Thursday that "crypto markets were most volatile when liquidity is limited." Ryder claimed that as a result of the failure of numerous significant financial routes into cryptocurrency this year, the market for Bitcoin is currently at its worst liquidity level in 10 months.