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Topic
Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: SUDDEN CRASH
by
Captain_Planet
on 17/05/2019, 03:27:03 UTC
Doesn't seem to be anything atm. Thousands of bitcoins were sold in a short moment that caused the sudden drop from $7800 to $7100. Whoever sold that 5000 btc on Bitfinex in a single swoosh seemed to have wanted to take profits but crashed the market instead. Anyways, price is slowly going back to $7300 right now yet it still amazes me how a few thousand coins can actually crash a market that hard.

I see, so 5000 btc sale order at Bitfinix was involved in this drop. Do you think Tether / Bitfinix issue is the one of the reason why someone sold those 5k BTCs or was it just a whale dumping?
https://www.coindesk.com/tether-ordered-to-freeze-transfers-to-bitfinex-by-new-york-supreme-court