The reason BTC is going down in price is due to the rise of unconfirmed transactions. The more BTC is getting used, the more micro transactions start to happen, the more it causes a traffic jam. Bitcoin cannot handle too many transactions. With currently close to 300k unconfirmed transactions and rising by the minute and people waiting well over 4 days for their transactions, Bitcoin will keep on going down over the coming days. People are dumping their Bitcoin into alt coins just to be able to transfer their crypto.
That makes a lot of sense. I here now thinking about what the users should do in order to avoid this congestion. Maybe the network is being boycotted, ( I saw today one post about this ).
In my opinion, this problem will make Bitcoin even stronger, because after this network congestion pass, I believe will increase the confidence of the people in Bitcoin, and the people who are today with transactions stopped, could take some lesson and in the future maybe avoid make transactions and moments like this.