(Bloomberg/Suvashree Ghosh) — Major cryptocurrencies retreated to drag the market’s total value below $4 trillion after it scaled record heights last week.
Bitcoin fell as much as 2.5% to about $115,000 while Ether, the second-largest token, at one point shed more than 5% to dip below $4,300 on Monday. The combined value of all cryptocurrencies sank to $3.9 trillion, according to CoinMarketCap.
The losses come after Bitcoin hit a record $125,514 on Aug. 14, while Ether on the same day pushed to within $100 of its own all-time high set in November 2021. The two leading tokens had been buoyed by a spree of institutional investment led by so-called digital-asset treasury companies — listed vehicles whose purpose is to create stockpiles of cryptocurrency. Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the original crypto hoarder that’s inspired a flood of imitators, has amassed more than $72 billion worth of Bitcoin. Strategy announced Monday that it purchased $51.4 billion of Bitcoin from Aug. 11 to Aug. 17.
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The market “has seen continued profit-taking since a new all-time high printed last week,” said Caroline Mauron, co-founder of Orbit Markets, adding that “the momentum behind the crypto treasury boom appears to be losing steam.”
Metaplanet Inc., the Japanese hotel operator that’s so far accumulated $2.2 billion of Bitcoin, is down around 50% from a mid-June high.
Meanwhile, BitMine Immersion Technologies Inc. said Monday that it’s crypto holdings exceeded $6.6 billion. The company, headed by Thomas Lee – a well-known financial television contributor and founder of financial research firm Fundstrat – began accumulating Ether in June. Shares of the Las Vegas-based firm have surged more than 600% this year.
–With assistance from Sidhartha Shukla.
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