I heard this was a result of the Korean issue of closing the trading exchanges there. but it has been clarified that it is a lie.
I am sure BTC will rise again.
This seems to be coming true. Reported from
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/10/south-korea-official-reportedly-readying-bill-to-ban-all-cryptocurrency-trading.html'South Korea's justice minister said that the country is preparing a bill that will ban all cryptocurrency trading'
Such an issue once occurred when China began to resist the same thing, but the market responded with this negative sentiment of news and Bitcoin prices continued to rise until the end of November, 2017. Could be this will happen again, we're still waiting what will happen soon.