Bitcoin has been declining for five weeks in a row.
The collapse of Terra added fuel to the fire at the end of the week. The head of the Bitcoin Foundation believes that BTC may crash or reach $1 million.
Bitcoin declined by 10.7% over the past week, ending it at about $34,200. Ethereum lost 9.7%, other leading altcoins from the top ten fell from 4% (Cardano) to 18.7% (Terra).
The cryptocurrency fear and greed index decreased by 4 points in a week, to 18 and continues to be in a state of "extreme fear". By Monday, the index had dropped to 11 points - the index was at such levels on January 23, followed by an upward reversal of BTC.
Bitcoin has been declining for five weeks in a row amid stock market sell-offs due to the tightening of the Fed's monetary policy. BTC has fallen below its 100-week moving average for the first time since the crisis of March 2020, which is an extremely negative signal.
Bears are aiming for the lows of the current year just below $33,000, and then the level of $30,000, which buyers fiercely defended last year, may be under attack.
The fall of bitcoin at the end of the week occurred against the background of news about the problems of Terra. The cryptocurrency collapsed against the background of the short-term unbinding of the UST stablecoin from the US dollar due to the outflow of assets from the Anchor protocol. Against the background of a decrease in the rate of return on deposits, over 2.2 billion UST were withdrawn from Anchor in less than two days. Skeptics believe that algorithmic stablecoins are unstable in their design, since they do not have dollar collateral.
The head of the Bitcoin Foundation, Brock Pierce, said that he observes a situation in the cryptocurrency market similar to the dotcom crisis of the turn of the noughties and therefore diversifies his portfolio into EOS and the NFT market. The billionaire claims that bitcoin will either crash or become very successful, so you should not invest all your money in BTC.
The best weekly dynamics was shown by TRON, which added about 29%. On May 5, the algorithmic stablecoin USDD was released and put into circulation on the Tron network. The founder of the project, Justin Sun, announced the highest profitability in the DeFi industry for freezing the stablecoin. The profit from the placement of USDD will be 30% per annum.