Bitcoin Falls Below $23k Level; Tesla Sells 75% of its BTC Holdings

21 Jul 2022

📉BTC | $22,874.22 ($-514.28, -2.20%)
📉ETH | $1,503.38 ($-43.16, -2.79%)
📉XRP | $0.354302($-0.018955, -5.08%)
📉LTC | $56.07 ($-2.40, -4.13%)

📉Total Crypto Market Cap: The global crypto market cap is $1.03T(-2.70%)

😟Both Bitcoin and Ether are having their best week since March, up 12% and 15% respectively. The rally seemed to stall out on Wednesday when news of a new withdrawal freeze came from Zipmex, a Singapore-based crypto exchange that reportedly loaned some $100 million to Babel Finance, another ailing crypto firm. BTC is trading around $22,800, down 2% over the past 24 hours.

🚗Tesla has sold off 75% of its Bitcoin holdings worth $936 million this quarter. CEO Musk said Tesla is open to increasing its bitcoin holdings again in the future and noted that the sale does not represent the firm’s view of Bitcoin. Instead, the selloff was due to concerns about overall liquidity for the company given Covid shutdowns in China

⚠️Vauld, a Peter Theil-backed crypto lending platform has filed for protection from its Singaporean creditors. The news comes as the firm banned withdrawals from its platform. The firm owes $402 million to its creditors, with 90% being individual retail investor deposits.


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