The cost of bitcoin fell by almost 10% more over the past day, dropping to $ 32.8 thousand. Data from the Coindesk exchange evidence this. The reason for the incident is unknown, but Bloomberg believes that this is a reaction to the FBI operation, which allowed the Colonial Pipeline hackers to trace the cryptocurrency transaction.
In total, the cost of bitcoin has almost halved over the past 1.5 months. At its peak, the cost of the crypto coin reached $ 63.5 thousand. The total capitalization of the currency fell to $ 620 billion, having lost its trillion-dollar status.
As noted by Bloomberg, the fall happened against the background of the hacking of the crypto wallet of one of the hackers who organized the attack on the Colonial Pipeline. The company paid the ransom in bitcoin, but the FBI traced the transaction, seized the wallet password, and confiscated $ 2.3 million. According to the newspaper, this statement undermined confidence in the currency, since the authorities “tracked the untraceable.”
The head of the data analysis department of CEX.IO Broker, Yuri Mazur, in a conversation with Forbes, said that the cryptocurrency had responded to the authorities’ efforts to tighten regulation. According to him, the US government wants to promote the idea of de-anonymizing cryptocurrency transactions, which could reduce the popularity of bitcoin.