The best endeavors of mainstream media to start another value crash flop as BTC/USD bounce back after a mere 10% drop.
Bitcoin saw a fresh price dip on May 21 amid reports that China had reiterated its pledge to crack down on mining and trading.
China and Bitcoin: Old news
Data from Data and Tradingview showed BTC/USD shed 10% in minutes on Friday as mainstream media turned up the volume on familiar bad news.
The pair had recently regained $42,000 after a record-breaking recovery from a $30,000 dip on Wednesday, with the latest concerns erasing some of its progress.
These focused on a Chinese government statement that revealed plans to “crack down on Bitcoin mining and trading behavior, and resolutely prevent the transmission of individual risk.”
As Cointelegraph reported, China had already reiterated its plans to control cryptocurrency activities within its jurisdiction, but media sources had taken comments from officials as a threat to the industry. With no official changes in policy coming on Friday either, commentators were likewise quick to lay the blame on those spreading bad publicity.
“Let China actually ban Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining,” popular commentator Whalepanda response.
“Mining would be more decentralized, black market for Bitcoin would thrive and the ‘China controls Bitcoin’ false narrative would disappear.”
Research had previously shown that the Bitcoin network is resilient to changes in conditions, with a loss of mining power in one location soon compensated elsewhere.
At press time, Bitcoin was already rebounding from local lows of $36,680.
Market resilience solidifies
More broadly, the impact of negative news had slowed following the $30,000 dip, potentially due to the market now being cleansed Of overleveraged traders
Atweet from Tesla CEO Elon Musk further criticizing its energy consumption on Thursday had likewise failed to cause the same shock as the first last week.
“Bitcoin hashing (aka mining) energy usage is starting to exceed that of medium-sized countries. Almost impossible for small hashers to succeed without those massive economies of scale,” he had claimed.
In the interim, famous Twitter account Documenting Bitcoin turned into the most recent to feature the uncanny bullish results of Chinese “FUD” encompassing Bitcoin. BTC/USD will in general see its greatest increases in the period following a series of Judgment day clamors from Beijing.