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2022-10-18 08:50:59

Ethereum Shaves Off A Quarter Of Its Price As Whales Dump $4 Billion In ETH

Ethereum, dubbed as the “king of all altcoins” and the second largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization, managed to trim its recent losses as it continues to struggle in this extended crypto winter. According to tracking from Coingecko, Ethereum is changing hands at $1,332.18, going up by 2.1% over the last 24 hours and tallying an increase of 3.2% over the past week. But the digital asset is still performing badly considering it is nowhere near its all-time high of $4,878 attained on November 10, 2021. By this date last year, the altcoin opened its day with a trading price of $3,848, which is almost thrice as much as its current value. Moreover, Ethereum is coming off a major price dump, losing 26% of its $1,773 price on September 10. While the crypto, along with its fellow digital currencies are no stranger to price drops caused by the unpredictable volatility of their market, experts think big investors of Ethereum are somehow responsible for its recent slump. Related Reading: TRON Makes Record For Period Spent In Deflationary State – Good For TRX? Ethereum Whales Collectively Dump On October 16, crypto market intelligence platform Santiment shared on Twitter that Ethereum sharks and whales, for the past five weeks, have been dumping their holdings of the altcoin. According to the data released, these big investors dumped a total of 3.3 million ETH tokens with a total value of $4.3 billion based on the crypto...

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