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in bitcoin •  5 years ago 

The Bitcoin network took quite a hit yesterday

Both in price and in total hash rate.

The hash rate plummeted by close to 40%, seemingly out of no where.

A day later, it's almost right back to where it fell from:

(Source: https://twitter.com/notgrubles/status/1177213397626171392)

I don't even have a guess as to what caused such a drop.

The strange thing was the drop happened a few hours before the price tanked as well.

Something strange happened somewhere but we probably won't find out for sure what it was until days, weeks, or months later.

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I don't believe bitcoin had crashed and cannot raise again because I still believe that it will raise again. Take a look at the time bitcoin dropped down to $6000 which also affected other crypto currency like litecoin. We thought that is the end of bitcoin crashing everyday. But it increased suddenly to $10000 which attract more investors to buy into bitcoin. So, if it goes down now does not mean it won't raise again.

True.

Hmmm. If one owned a large mining asset, it seems that it might pay to shut it off, generate some downside hype, and then turn it back on again.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

I would never do such a thing :-) but one could. At least until someone figured out the game.

I doubt this actually happened. Just doing dome conspiracy hypothesizing.

How would that benefit them though in any way?