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The reason everything is dropping. People are scared SEC & The FCC will shutdown exchanges, ICO's and anyone not following securities laws that now also apply to crypto.

SEC Warns Unregistered Cryptocurrency Exchanges Against Listing Security Tokens
http://strategiccoin.com/sec-warns-unregistered-cryptocurrency-exchanges-listing-security-tokens/ (http://strategiccoin.com/sec-warns-unregistered-cryptocurrency-exchanges-listing-security-tokens/)

The SEC just made it clearer that securities laws apply to most cryptocurrencies and exchanges trading them >
 https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/07/the-sec-made-it-clearer-that-securities-laws-apply-to-cryptocurrencies.html (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/07/the-sec-made-it-clearer-that-securities-laws-apply-to-cryptocurrencies.html)

U.S. regulator urges registration of cryptocurrency exchanges
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-sec-crypto/u-s-regulator-urges-registration-of-cryptocurrency-exchanges-idUSKCN1GJ2VI (https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-sec-crypto/u-s-regulator-urges-registration-of-cryptocurrency-exchanges-idUSKCN1GJ2VI)

Cryptocurrencies Plunge 23% Overnight as SEC, Tokyo Whale Trigger Mass Exodus
https://hacked.com/cryptocurrencies-plunge-23-overnight-as-sec-tokyo-whale-trigger-mass-exodus/ (https://hacked.com/cryptocurrencies-plunge-23-overnight-as-sec-tokyo-whale-trigger-mass-exodus/)

What are your thoughts on this matter?

I think the main reason is the sharks in the crypto market. They have the power to decide the price of the altcoins. So they can make a lot of profit from the trading and increase and decrease the price of the altcoins. They make small traders fear because of the cost of going down and forcing them to sell all their coins to secure their assets. and the sharks would buy all the coins at low prices and sell them at high prices.

The information you provide is correct that the news affects the current decline. I hope everyone can be calm and patient to deal with this and I am sure the market will recover in the next few days.

I believe that this is just manipulation. This is done to ensure that the market was panic sale and people in a panic were selling their crypto currency. At this time, large players are all buying at a low price.

Thanks for sharing, I hope the news would not make people to panic, it seems like it is at the wrong timing, the price were suppose to go up
but it was messed up with this news. Anyway, I think we should be more stronger now as there will be more bad news that will come and whales
will surely find ways to create FUD to cause big panic.

I agree with you, they are the one who controls the market price and they are the reason of people who panic selling when theirs a big dump going on.

I agree to this but even if they try to shut down exchanges, they cant stop crypto to take over fiat money. Crypto is a future it will take some more time world to accept it

I think these news for altcoin may not be a good news, for the bitcoin, however, may be a good news, because it means more money flowed into the currency, and altcoin may lose their value.

You forgot about the binance news and the Mt Gox dump.

Anyways we're just in a really unfortunate position at the moment with all this news coming in at around the same time. Though today we did recover on average around 5-10% for most cryptos listed in the top 100.

BTC has found a floor at $9k, ETH around $700. Not going to go under those figures any time soon.

There's similarities between the operations of the foreign exchange market and the crypto market. News often affect their behaviour as can be seen in the prevailing crypto market situation. But I am not always moved by this because I believe that it is normal as the market will soon recover.

These are the figures that convince all people are wondering about the market down. Thanks to the article I have gained more experience in trading and very thank you.
I will share this data with my friends and hope it will be helpful to my team.

Eternal growth of the market can't be. The market was already saturated. But I think, in the fall we will see good growth again.

News is indeed very powerful when it comes to influencing the prices of assets. I believe that this is not just any other black propaganda, but a legitimate problem of each government since they are getting their funds from taxes while cryptos are stopping them from doing so.

Ever see or hear this phrase before?
"Buy the Rumor and Sell the News"
Here's what it means.(link below) Interesting read, take a look!
https://www.thebalance.com/what-does-buy-the-rumor-sell-the-news-mean-1344971 (https://www.thebalance.com/what-does-buy-the-rumor-sell-the-news-mean-1344971)

Thanks for the provided links, I was very surprised at the position of the U.S. regulator, which makes such statements. Is it right to invade the free market?            

it is told that mtgox bitcoin are being sold for las 4 months

We re talking about hundred thousand of btc here

So it is normal for btc to go down, and like usual all other coins follow btc

If that would be a serious reason to dump cryptocurrencies, then they are actually still too high priced. No, look half a year ago, where prices of the cryotos were. Bitcoin was under 6000$; at beginning 2017 even only at 900$. Same on all other cryptos. So I can't admit, that "everything is down". But nevertheless the news is interesting, although it wont have a big  influence on longterm prices.

For me, I think everything is going down due to Bitcoin's drop.
We all noticed that Bitcoin is the carrier of the crypto market due its value pairing is bitcoin:Altcoin and not USD so everything will be going down and drop when Bitcoin is dropping.
FUDs and fake news are always the reasons behind of every crypto market dropping but the good thing is crypto market is always recovering every after few days of the dip and that's the fact.

Hmm, I think pretty much the drop we had not long ago is influenced by the correction it's supposed to happen after such a bull run.
Myself for example, never heard of those regulations till now, maybe the big whales are scared.

Everything will come back to normal.Just wait until april and you will see.Its the same like last year .On 1st of April XRP was 0.022 and NEO was only 0.20$ .Crazy so you will see the same thing happening this year

It is probable yes, the main companion of growth/fall of shares are news agencies which can change quotes, through stuffing.

the information you provide is true but also do you know that MT GOX is also participating in destroying the current bitcoin prices, seen as many of the issues that talk about MT GOX they have so many bitcoins ready to destroy the bitcoin prices even deeper.

Many big investor here in cryptocurrency business, they are most powerful people that involves and affects price movement, they are something the source of rapid increase and decrease of price status. So, to all small skill crypto enthusiasts, all we need to do are just followed the flowing system of cryptocurrency.

I think that what is happening now is manipulation. Those people who manipulate the market want everyone to panic and sell their coins. Do not panic. Just wait.

Hahaha . people are writing this january and almost everybody has lost a lot. and what if BTC is $ 2,000. are you still a good HODL? i sold almost everything in january and can now buy so much with much profit that i have a lot of eth and btc over. hodl is not always good

I totaly agree ... Thats what specialy new people forget.

All my projects have a very great timeline for this year. More better then last year .... So I am sure that the 2nd and 3rd quarter this year will be very very big.

My advice: "Buy as much as you can lose" and relax for summer :-)

I think the proofs you given might be the reason why everything goes down. But I hope everything is going back to normal and increase its value.

currently almost all Cryptocurrency has decreased significantly in my opinion this kind of phenomenon is common in the crypto market. and of course this will cause panic for investors so they will continue to make sales on a large scale. I personally think in the face of this situation of course I will still hold because this is a phenomenon that has been commonplace.

People are scared due to some govt policies to eradicate funding to terrorists

The biggest enemy of BTC and other digital currencies is government policy!

The influence of government policy on BTC is too great. BTC and government are natural enemies!

The market will slowly rise after adjustment!

Basically just a bunch of FUD unfortunately, hopefully we see some big fiat entering the game in the coming months and see the market on a huge bull run

It is a pity that the government structures still so strongly affect the crypto currency market. But in the end they lose

Very agree with your information. All bad news came one time and dump every crypto currencies right now. Keep stay strong Hold everyone. Bad time will over and we will gain green pump soon

This was to be expected, on the one hand it is even good, because there will be less scam projects.

Yeah, it's just human psychology. Most people are fearful especially when talking about money. Just a little lose and they feel like it's the end of the world.

Government is doing right now ehh we just have to wait for great news to come because government will not stop if they not completely control the bitcoin. Just hold until the green days will come

I think there can be several reasons. This year the crypto currency does not have that popularity. which she had last year. A prolonged fall made many people panic and they sold their assets, which further intensified the fall. In addition, until there is market regulation, large investors will not invest in it

I think that you might be onto something here, there are always so many things that are contributing the the prices of the coins being down as at now and it has been a build up over time. With some of these things that you have listed, I can see why they can affect the prices of the coins going down. Also the SEC making sure that the exchanges follow the regulations is a big one.

Probably do not need to raise this topic until the right time has come, as soon as bitcoin starts to fall, will begin their growth and altcoins, so while it seems to me that the fall is far away.

Well i didnt know there was so much going on around this. Good that im hodling the coins!

I think right now the news is changing table, the news now is SEC about to approve ETF, and once that is done, we will fly to bull run, now is a good time to buy some good altcoins.

I have the same speculation as you. This is the only reason I know why the market keeps on going down nowadays. The whales have the right and still continue to manipulate the prices of the cryptomarket. Though in the recent months, I was able to read some articles about the fall of bitcoin and the reasons is sometimes the lack of support. Example is the banning of cryptocurrencies in different countries. Another reason that I read is the regulation of cryptocurrencies continues in some countries.

Well,  we have moved past all these reasons,  bitcoin has left the dock and I'd sailing to greater height already.  The most important thing right bow is to buy up the price of bitcoin as it increase so that we can benefit from valuation that will come as a result of this bull run  

I'm not worried tbh. I have my investments only on few alt coins that I'm currently supporting.
They are losing vs BTC from a couple of days, but they will raise in few days from now.

You're right ! I have the same opinion with you. Market prices increase or decrease mostly due to sharks. But now there are a lot of projects against sharks to balance the market. But I think, they can only resist part.

I think that a lot of people are able to manipulate the crypto market ,the best that we can do ,under the circumstance,is to be patient and hold our token.

in the digital currency world, it is definitely the season of the bear that is the reason for everything to fall. The economic crisis in the world affects the crypto stock market negatively. prices are falling because of these reasons.

Conditions that occur is the impact of the decline in trust and also there is a dumping process against the price of Bitcoin, well when the price of Bitcoin decreased then it will automatically Lowers Altcoin prices. Things like this can not be avoided because this process occurs systematically, all we can do is not follow the flow of panic and remain calm. With calmness then we just need to wait and I am sure with that then the price will return gradually normal again.

This is not right to write off all the dumps to news, also your were referring only to US regulations.
Even eith all the news from all over the globe, it is not correct to describe the market.
There are market cycles and liquidity which matter more than news.

bitcoin dominance is getting more power as we saw last year.
Alt coins will continue to bleed against bitcoin but i am not very sure about ethereum.
Ethereum must get more power soon.

Checking the last year's movement, things like this are common when bitcoin start its runs the alts will be affected and bleed as holders will sell out and convert their coins into btc, without realizing that whales can buy it up and manipulate the value and make it to the moon, common traders who already have experience are just calmly watching and not playing with whales, we should follow their styles and be calm as we wait for the value to increase back one by one, better to hold top quality alts for investment purposes.

Agree, in the crypto world, the money are moving from impatient people to patient people, me as a small fish in the crypto, just able to wait and see, and the most important is patient. never sell if it loss

To my mind cryptocurrencymarket is going up now. The last dip is over and it has shown that crypto will be increasing with in the stronger way soon.

It will be finished soon I think. Current problems confirm that there will be a large time of crypto's increasing and spreading so I am not against about these real little problems.

Do not pay attention to this and look for some reasons for which the cryptocurrency falls in value. It is better to just buy while there is such a huge chance to earn big

Cryptocurrency is very much dependent on the news Fund and if it will be a permanent negative, then the cryptocurrency may fall very much

Bitcoin is down. There is always fud surrounding the coins, whales are doing pumps and dumps which is affecting the price of the coins negatively.
There is also the people who panic sell their coins when they see the price of the coins go up a little bit or drop a little bit. As long as the price of bitcoin remains down, all of the market will remain down.

conditions like this have become a market habit, the most important when the market is in a state of descent should never feel panic because it could have made a loss for you.

Not only rumors, but also many real actions in terms of checking and closing several exchanges, the activities of various fraudsters and, worse, the ban on crypto-currencies or projects in a certain country. You can not dump everything on whales, which also risk and are in almost the same uncertain situation.

the fall of crypto we should pay attention because it involves our investment income. if crypto continues to fall then everyone will surely complain about this. it's easy to buy because it depends on a person's request...

It is affected by various bad news from giant social media networks such as Twitter and Facebook. There are news that they did not accept payment by Crypto and that make a spreading effect to other countries.

Well said, exactly! The reason why everythings is down is the reason why Bitcoin is down. Whales' effects and panic sellers' effects are bigger on Bitcoin than any other reason in my opinion.

maybe this is just a market manipulation, so that the end of the year all experienced a surge in prices. Just think positive that everything will be fine. not to worry and panic, we must always be calm.

Markets are always on the move, what is the specialty of the crypto market and it rises and falls like the others. Many variables affect the market.

Can you tell me which is the news that can be considered as FUD to the bitcoin? i don't see anything that related to the bitcoin's correction today or i may wrong about that.
When it gets a big pump and i guess it should get a correction after that. All of crypto pegged with bitcoin and that's why they are getting impact from that.

It is not the first time and it is not the last time this is happening. We all need to relax and do something different. It is the same like for the people who waited so long with bitcoins in their wallets all these years

They are creating ups and down with all these news releases.  This week sec loves Bitcoin.  Next week they hate it.  I think just place your bets on high quality coins and wait it out.  They will pay out eventually.

IMHO we can see some news about problems with exchanges, for example some problems with poloniex, now they blocked some people and don't answer as it was before. This can give great red candle;)

I agree with your suggestions but I also think it is affected also by price manipulation from the big whales because the own the largest share and they do what they like at anytime with their investment and I believe if the rate of price manipulation is reduced, the market will be more better and price of coin will rise.

that is impossible, because everyone also understands that, that big capital owners always take control, so I think your hope will never materialize, and my advice should follow it according to the storyline, and diligently keep up with the news so we can anticipate price movements.

The global causes of the fall of bitcoin are, of course, the futures that came to bitcoin and begin to integrate into ETH, as soon as futures started serious falls and correction of bitcoins, you know why? Think about it.

I think that the main reason of such a big falling down of cryptomarket in 2018 it is too fast growth in 2017. It was inevitable to have big correction after that hype. I believe that prices will go up but slowly.

I believe that this is a kind of manipulation, which is very beneficial to someone. At least for investors and holders to sell their coins at an attractive price

Personally, I think this is a well-planned manipulation that has caused a big decline in cryptocurrency capitalization. I will be glad to make mistakes!

I spend a Telegram channel for a week or two to see how it flows and see how many boys are fans there. You need a good community when things get tough. Once the Telegram is good and the project is good, I usually jump. It's basically a crap shoot.

Nothing new really, the sec has always been harassing business in the US and now it is making everyone´s life misearable across the globe. I think that some exchanges that will be placed in Malta may list.

There are general market cycles. And a market maker creates narratives and news mostly, not vise versa. They will dump the price if they want to buy more

Many speculations has been made that everything is down as a result of the underground work of whales, who have a big impact in the market. These people own huge amounts of bitcoins and sometimes sell, to cause a dip in the market, so they can buy more at cheaper rates, and then make much more profits when the prices are back up.

The crypto down market is already predicted. It has to go all the way down (the upcoming BTC can be about 4k $) then new to be.

Hopefully the news does not make everyone panic, but we must be strong now, because there will be more bad news coming.
However, the news is interesting, even though it doesn't have a big influence on long-term prices.

I don't think anybody knows the real reason because the movement of the market is influenced by all different factors and yes it could have been caused by the news, or exchanges or people just selling and panicking.

I think that in general the market began to recover and this means that the dump in principle will not last long and the situation will not improve much. Soon the top coins will pump.

Properly, we've transferred earlier every one of these causes, bitcoin provides still left the particular boat dock and also I'd personally wind-surfing to be able to better top previously. The most important thing proper ribbon and bow is always to acquire upwards the price tag on bitcoin because it boost in order that we could reap the benefits of worth that may appear because of this kind of half truths work.

Almost all of Crypto's price increases and decreases were influenced by news that was very influential on Crypto because a few days ago prices rose high because they waited for the moment given by the ETF but what happened was that the ETF was rejected so the price dropped again, so we patiently just played on Crypto because all unexpected things will come and we don't know when prices will rise again quickly, maybe many predict at the end of the year prices will rise quickly but that is just a prediction.

Well I think there are more than one reason why the market is really down and prices are plummeting right now.  I think it has to do greatly with the bear market situation

The most important reason. Which slows down all the work of the crypto currency. This is a recent correction. After all, she left a trail. And we were all worried about this. But already everything is getting better. So, that is not worth worrying about.

You probably listed the most probably reasons why we are on a down market. Some say it is market manipulation or just investors losing faith in this new technology. I think it is the former. Until we see more people see the benefit of Crypto and begin to understand the potential of it, will help drive mass adoption and more people will invest. Even without approval of ETFs.

I agree with others, that whale has a huge influence to make a profit. They can play with crypto at any time. They can make coin prices go down so investors panic and sell their coins. After the price drops, he will buy more coins to get a profit.

Already all the manipulations are done, so that the market is approaching the stage of recovery and growth. I really hope for high growth in the future.

It is because effects of the market. There are many bad information about BTC and altcoin such as Twiter or Facebook which said that they will not accept BTC as payment. That's why there are many people give it up.

Thank you for sharing the information, the crypto world is too fragile so that a few news can make the price of the currency slump, regardless of whether the news is true or false.

The reason why market is going down in each period of time is it's traders who control the prices in the crypto markets or exchanges. Most traders are being panic once they saw that their altcoins being hold our quietly dumped and this will be the reason why they are being panic to sell theirs.

I am only confused. The SEC is a US government agency, and ETH is a Russian company. Even if ETH becomes a securities, how do they close foreign companies!

This is basically a market capitulation looked from psychological perspective. I think 80% of tokens and altcoins will never recover. The sentiment is very bad now and I don't see it changing until the end of September at least. Forget the tech, sentiment is driving the market now.

I think that the drop in the market may be due to its dumping by Tether (USDT). They have been planning something for a long time, are hiding from the audit, every new issue of the token entails a fall ... If this bubble bursts, then the crisis will affect only the cryptocommunity.

the most appropriate reason is because of the news that made Crypto decline, of course the news is not good news. crypto is too easily exposed to the issue so the price goes up and down.

in any case, if the artificial manipulation of the crypto-currency market does not stop, then the crypto-currency may fail. Thus, we will be able to observe not development, but quite the opposite phenomena in the crypto-currency market.

Cryptocurrency has been severely "damaged" since mid-December. Continuous bad news and speculation about regulatory oversight caused the price to fall further. Cryptocurrency investors are also concerned about hacking and phishing in the cryptocurrency field.

Actually, the reasons you stated are very good and true but I also think the market is affected by manipulation of price by the big whales and also low demand because if there is high demand, the price will be high.

I think there are many factors that influence the decline of market prices, if in my opinion it might be from investors who no longer believe or too many scam projects that make an imbalance the profits we get do not match the promised project that makes investors start leaving Crypto.

I think just some countries were just afraid that their citizens are out of control. But in this and the whole point of the crypto currency, and only because of this it received such support!

I must say it is informative post for all traders and a persons who is the part of crypto market I hope everything will be good in future for all of us. Great and informative job u done.

I do not think this is enough to cause a downtrend in the crypto market, but that apart from this, there are people who decide the price of coins in the market. These set of people have huge investment and are also known as whales. They can cause both uptrend and downtrend in the prices of coins.

The reason is that the whales become more hungry for money, so they can dump and pump the price of bitcoin whatever they want. It is very easy, because the cap of a whole market is under 200B$.

I think that real reason of the overall falling of the cryptomarket is huge influence of some big financial whales. It is very easy for those who have billions of dollars to change situation on fragile cryptomarket with not so big capitalization.

I feel sad on what is the market having now.
but this time is also the elimination stage.
weak hands will be gone in the market because of this fall...
only wise man will stand out on this one.
look at this, weak hands will be wipe-out while wise holders will gain more tokens.

The reason you provided is hundred percent correct but the crypto market has other side too like whales manipulate the market.

Failure is because you can not be patient, during this time the cryptographic market is always falling low, but if we find that the market never grows, expect so much, the market will growth again

Many people in the crypto industry doesn't realize the market was being manipulated by these whales for the past few years until today. Because they possessed huge quantities of coins, the market's been easily affected and the price was basically going down or going up, depending on what they desire to happen. Another reason is a lot of crypto users were in a panic state because of the red market's status, and there was FUD happening and its causing them to sell their tokens for a low price and as a result, it was being bought by these whales and sell them for a high price.

The market is in slow down situation which is affected by the market.

The hacker's penetration into a major trading floor has caused the cryptocurrency market to seriously impact the prices of coin that are typically impacted by ethereal and some government policies that significantly affect the market

This is very narrow viewed to think that SEC is the only thing that matters .
These news and regulation action could be only short term catalisators but not the trend, the trend is bearish because we had a huge bubble and we are still feeling the hangover of it.

I come here to read more information. Thanks!

actually, there are several reasons why the crypto prices on the market go down and even are getting down. one of them is that so many people who sell coins at low prices. therefore, it will make the crypto prices are down in the market. when prices are falling like this it would be better if we avoid panic sell and try to hold the coins that we have for a while.

It's very simple there was a good growth now goes bitcoin down and behind him stretch all the coins but by the end of the year people will regret that now sell and exit the market in panic.

They are trying to regulate crypto because like the stock market, these are the avenues the rich make more money while people who are hoping to atleast make some profit are being ripped off in a legal manner supported by the government. This way they can retain control over the masses.

The seasonal factor is also important. In summer most traders are on vacation, with all their money withdrawn. That's why the market is slack. Even those being at home stop trading because of this. It's a snowball effect!

Although bad news and the FUD can certainly lower a market, I also believe that market manipulation is a big culprit, we can never ignore the whales that sell cheap to lower the price and then take advantage of the FUD generated to keep it down and they can buy even lower, so they earn incredible profits in a short time only manipulating the minds of investors who do not get informed properly.

We are still in a bearish trend, and the SEC delayed decision about ETF is just making the trend more negative. But don’t everything is still on track we are just experiencing the exit of the week hands and later on we will move upward again.

Agreed, this can be a seasonal effect. In the past when China was a big player of bitcoin whenever there is a vacation there will be price fluctuations. Similar things have been taking place by now, which will change over the next few months time as we're getting towards the year end.

Thank you for the information you shared. The cryptocurrency has decreased dramatically recently due to the huge impact of negative news. But this reduction is only due to market volatility, not affect the potential of some cryptos such as BTC and ETH. So you should invest in these two cryptos when the exchange rate is low.

I know a lot of declines do occur because of rejection. rejection and prohibition against crypto are also surely provided considerable impact against the value of their own crypto. There may be other factors as well such as the annual cycle of the crypto case. but this clear enough to make the price of crypto slammed down.

When crypto investing exploded late last year, the market was still in its infancy and largely speculative. Even now many projects are only just starting to release minimal viable products.

Agreed, We have to be more stronger to with stand these price manipulations by the crypto whales. Crypto whales often do this repeatedly in other to benefit from the it. The would consistently confuse others

There are some reasons for the fall in the market's price, but the main reason is the fear of investors, the fear of panic selling and the panic selling affect the overall exchange rate, causing the exchange rate of the entire market to fall rapidly. But at the end of 2018, the exchange rate will increase again and BTC and ETH will rise to the utopia.