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Following several consecutive days of seeing mostly gains and charting new peaks, bitcoin has finally retraced by dropping by over four grand over the past 12 hours or so.
The altcoins have followed suit, with notable price drops evident from the likes of ETH, DOGE, ADA, TRX, AVAX, and more.
<h2 id="btc-falls-by-4k">BTC Falls by $4K</h2>
The primary cryptocurrency bounced off its low of $94,400 last weekend and began a massive run-up that culminated yesterday. During that rally, it breached $100,000 on Thursday and has <a href="https://cryptopotato.com/bitcoin-hits-record-106-5k-as-whale-wallets-surge-amid-trump-comments/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">remained</a> within six-digit territory for almost the entire time since then.
Following a slightly sluggish weekend spent at around $101,500, the asset went on the offensive once again on Monday morning and especially Tuesday. At the start of the business week, it skyrocketed to $106,500 and kept climbing on the second day to just over $108,000, which became its <a href="https://cryptopotato.com/ripple-xrp-reclaims-3rd-spot-after-7-daily-surge-bitcoin-btc-neared-108k-market-watch/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">latest all-time high</a>.
However, after gaining roughly $14,000 within a week, it felt inevitable that there will be a correction. That transpired in the past 12 hours or so as BTC dumped by over four grand and now trades just inches above $104,000.
Its market capitalization has calmed at $2.060 trillion on CG, and its dominance over the alts is up to 54%.
<figure id="attachment_375132" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-375132" style="width: 100%" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://cryptopotato.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BTCUSD-16.png" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><img class="size-full wp-image-375132" src="https://cryptopotato.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BTCUSD-16.png" alt="Bitcoin/Price/Chart 18.12.2024. Source: TradingView" width="1835" height="819" srcset="https://cryptopotato.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BTCUSD-16.png 1835w, https://cryptopotato.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BTCUSD-16-300x134.png 300w, https://cryptopotato.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BTCUSD-16-1024x457.png 1024w, https://cryptopotato.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BTCUSD-16-768x343.png 768w, https://cryptopotato.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BTCUSD-16-1536x686.png 1536w, https://cryptopotato.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BTCUSD-16-50x22.png 50w" sizes="(max-width: 1835px) 100vw, 1835px"></a>
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 Bitcoin/Price/Chart 18.12.2024. Source: TradingView
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<h2 id="alts-in-retrace-mode">Alts in Retrace Mode</h2>
As it typically happens when BTC heads in either direction, the altcoins follow suit. Ethereum is down by 4% and sits just over $3,850, XRP has slipped by 2.5% to $2.52, and so has SOL, which struggles at $216.
More losses come from the likes of ADA, TRX, AVAX, SHIB, TON, SUI, XLM, DOT, and APT, with price drops of up to 9%. PEPE has also dropped hard, currently struggling to remain above $0.0000215.
The cumulative market capitalization of all crypto assets came close to $4 trillion yesterday but has dumped by about $150 billion since then to just under $3.850 trillion now.
<figure id="attachment_375133" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-375133" style="width: 100%" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://cryptopotato.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-18-121301.png" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><img class="size-full wp-image-375133" src="https://cryptopotato.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-18-121301.png" alt="Cryptocurrency Market Overview. Source: QuantifyCryptos" width="1883" height="824" srcset="https://cryptopotato.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-18-121301.png 1883w, https://cryptopotato.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-18-121301-300x131.png 300w, https://cryptopotato.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-18-121301-1024x448.png 1024w, https://cryptopotato.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-18-121301-768x336.png 768w, https://cryptopotato.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-18-121301-1536x672.png 1536w, https://cryptopotato.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-18-121301-50x22.png 50w" sizes="(max-width: 1883px) 100vw, 1883px"></a>
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 Cryptocurrency Market Overview. Source: QuantifyCrypto
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