Bitcoin slides down by over $1,000 in less than 48 hours
Bitcoin dropped to $6,800 on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange by 1200 GMT, before recovering a little to $6,870 just over 20 minutes later.
Despite losing almost 7 percent this week, bitcoin is still up more than 600 percent so far this year.
Bitcoin dropped below $7,000 on Friday to trade more than five percent down on the day, having fallen by well over $1,000 since hitting an all-time high on Wednesday.
Bitcoin dropped to $6,800 on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange by 1200 GMT, before recovering a little to $6,870 just over 20 minutes later.
On Wednesday around 1800 GMT, it had touched $7,888 after a software upgrade planned for next week that could have split the cryptocurrency in two was suspended.
The next 10-fold move in cryptoland will be BitcoinCash going from $800 all the way up to $8,000.
— Michael Matthews (@mikerelentless) November 10, 2017
I predict this will happen sometime in the next 12 months.
2018 is going to be an amazing year for #BitcoinCash!#Bitcoin
As Bitcoin fell, Bitcoin Cash – a clone of the original that was generated from another split on August 1 – surged, trading up as much as 35 percent on the day at around $850, according to industry website Coinmarketcap.
Despite losing almost seven percent this week, Bitcoin is still up more than 600 percent so far this year.
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