BTC had climbed from $35,709 to as high as $42,441. Then the slide started.
The founder of Purpose Investments, one of the first companies to offer bitcoin and ether ETFs in North America, chats ahead of Consensus 21.
Bitcoin had risen to nearly $43,000 earlier Thursday.
That didn't take long: Bitcoin is already back to where it was at the start of Wednesday, just before the biggest sell-off in 14 months.
Bitcoin sellers remain active as the broader uptrend weakens similar to 2017 and 2018.
Liquidations, China and even Elon Musk may be factors in markets falling.
The four-year-old company helps to digitize assets from real estate to equity in the form of security tokens using blockchain.
A crash isn't a great time to decide why you invested in the first place. But it's better late than never.
With $662 million in loans unwound over 24 hours, it's the worst day for such liquidations since Feb. 22.
Stocks drop on lingering inflation scare. Bitcoin fails to draw hedging bids.
"These are certainly setbacks for the wallets and for the investor base," the crypto investor told CNBC.
Crash in the leading cryptocurrency hitting related companies.
The crypto market has lost more than $400 billion in a day.
Coinbase, Gemini and Kraken are all reporting technical issues at press time.
The price of bitcoin is now down more than 30% so far in May, on track for its worst month since November 2018.