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Retail Investors Try to Toe the Line While Institutions Bail on Crypto

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Updated by Pavel Burminsky
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The cratering of the cryptocurrency market has many in the community feeling rattled. With the Bitcoin price having shaved off more than one-fifth of its value in seemingly one fell swoop, nobody was left unscathed. For those who haven’t sold yet, some traders appear to be on the verge of pulling the plug based on social media conjecture. But after looking more closely, you may be surprised to learn that it’s not the individual investor causing all of this pain.
If you’ve been wondering when institutional investors were going to come off the sidelines and get into the cryptocurrency market, it seems they already did – at least for a little while. Hunter Horsley, CEO at Bitwise Asset Management, in a tweet based on anecdotal evidence revealed the culprit for the selling – institutions. Bitcoin hash rate It appears that retail investors are the ones that are preventing the bleeding from getting any worse, with nearly three-quarters of the orders on cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase being “buys.” Kudos to them. And it’s not just in the U.S. Danny Scott, CEO of UK Bitcoin exchange CoinCorner, tweeted that a mere 5% of Bitcoin transactions on the platform were sells, with the balance, or 95%, being buys on March 12. Institutions, meanwhile, that dabble both in the traditional financial markets and cryptocurrencies appear to be the ones who are bailing. With all of the pain that big investors are feeling from other asset classes such as stocks and bonds, they need to create liquidity somewhere. So it’s not so much the baby being thrown out with the bathwater so much as it is cryptocurrencies taking one for the team. If there was any doubt that retail investors were attempting to toe the line, UFC fighter turned cryptocurrency advocate Ben Askren put those to rest, tweeting to his nearly 309K followers today that he is “hodling.” Meanwhile, as founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group, Barry Silbert usually represents institutional investors. But today he is one of us, saying in a tweet that he is buying the dip. Grayscale is behind the Drop Gold campaign that stirred up some controversy with gold investors and thrust Bitcoin into the spotlight in the mainstream. No asset was spared in this latest selloff, however, with the gold price also getting shellacked and losing $80 per ounce, or 5% on Thursday. [Mining.com] Retail investors might be a bit tattered after Bitcoin’s plunge to below $6,000, a level that many never thought they would live to see again. Despite this, based on the replies in the above tweets, many are rallying behind the cryptocurrency market, refusing to let the negative sentiment get the best of them. Another voice of calm has been Travis Kling, founder and CIO of Ikigai Asset Management. He pointed out in a tweet that even if the bottom isn’t in yet, once it is will be Bitcoin’s time to shine. And while some argue that the cryptocurrency keeps “moving the goalposts,” the truth is that the world is uncharted territory with coronavirus, and that simply means that all previous bets are off.
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Gerelyn Terzo
Gerelyn caught wind of bitcoin in mid-2017, and after becoming smitten by the peer-to-peer nature of crypto has never looked back. She has been covering the space ever since. Previously, she wrote about traditional financial services, Wall Street and institutional investing for much of her career. Gerelyn resides in Verona, N.J., just a hop, skip and a jump from New York City.
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