Maybe it is just the nature of market price volatility of cryptos which is the reason behind this downtrend at this moment. The market price could go lower if this would be continuous. Something that we should take advantage for.
I also saw this news and I was wondering about the same thing, so I stopped doing trade and I will wait a few days to see how the market will behave and then I will decide whether to continue doing trade or not, As in this crypto world whenever the price drops a lot, many people make scary price forecasts, and when the price rises a lot, many people make optimistic and exaggerated price forecasts, observing and analyzing on their own has become the only reliable option
Forecasts and assumptions are just mere opinions and has nothing to do with the actual market behavior. The best thing to do is to wait for changes to occur preferrably an increase or stability at a point in order to help investors make a decision whether to invest now or wait for a little more.
I don't seen any reason for Bitcoin to increase just only because the maintenance occur in Bitfinex. Not gonna lie, Bitfinex was one of the largest exchange but this will not have direct impact in Bitcoin's price. I believe that this is because of nearby halving, few people tend to dump their coins thinking that we've already been in bullish trend.
I cannot even see the relationship between the maintenance and the price of Bitcoin. If there are any, could someone explain? All I know is that, Bitfinex is n exchanger and given that Bitcoin is listed to almost all exchanges, I cannot see how it will be affected by the maintenance of the exchanger.