This week didn’t start off on the high for Bitcoin (available on Coinbase) price (BTC) and its future fundamentals; BTC price is steadily moving downhill after hitting $11,500 during the weekend and in early trading on Monday. The downward trend was due to lower volume – which is a frustrating sign for bulls.

Bitcoin (available on Coinbase) prices lost close to $1,000 from its Monday high, the price of Bitcoin (available on Coinbase) token was around $10,594 today. It seems that bulls are losing their grip on the crypto markets after the ruthless response from major regulators of European countries and the United Kingdom.

The entire crypto market has been under pressure over the last three days – Ethereum (available on Coinbase) (ETH), Ripple (available on Binance) (XRP), and the rest of top ten digital currencies are declining at a mid-single-digit rate. Ethereum (available on Coinbase) moves back below the $800 mark for the first time in the last fifteen days, while Ripple (available on Binance) trades at around $0.90.

Lower Trading Volume And Lower Bitcoin (available on Coinbase) Google Search Rate Spell Bearish Fundamentals

Trading volume always has substantial importance in settling the price whETHer its stock market or crypto market. Lower trading volume signifies declining trader’s confidence – which could have the negative impact on the price performance.  

Bitcoin (available on Coinbase) has been experiencing a significant drop in trading volume and confirmed transactions over the last couple of weeks. The total confirmed transactions declined to the two year low of 180,000 on Feb 26.    

Bitcoin (available on Coinbase) Google search trends are falling at a tremendous rate suggesting a declining interest for cryptocurrencies. Google trend data indicated a drop of 80% in searches for Bitcoin (available on Coinbase) to the lowest level in last five months.

But Why Have Investors Lost Confidence?

While the global markets and financial world has widely accepted blockchain technologies, they aren’t accepting the cryptocurrency phenomena as an alternative currency – and they have several factual reasons for their denouncement.

Regulators and business magnates are continually hammering trader’s sentiments by sending warning signals; the majority of them criticizing digital currencies due to its volatile nature, underlying value and its use for illegal purposes. The former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Rogoff believes Bitcoin (available on Coinbase) isn’t worth more than $100 in his view, saying:

“I think Bitcoin (available on Coinbase) will be worth a tiny fraction of what it is now if we’re headed out 10 years from now… I would see $100 as being a lot more likely than $100,000.”

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