Bitcoin Dips Below $64,000 in First Trading Day of the Week

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Bitcoin (XBT/USD) corrects on the first trading day of the week, reaching a price of $63,600 per 1 BTC. Bitcoin accounts for about 70% of the market share.

The total capitalization of the cryptocurrency market exceeds $3.2 trillion USD.

Ethereum (ETH/USD) trades at around $1,670 per 1 ETH.

Ripple (XRP/USD) is quoted at $1.15.

Leaders in terms of trading volume and capitalization are:

- Bitcoin,

- Ethereum,

- USDT,

- Solana, BNB Chain, Dogecoin.

Note that the pricing mechanism in the crypto market is based on the interaction of supply and demand on exchanges, where prices are formed through buy and sell orders. Key factors include limited supply, liquidity, technological updates, news, regulation (laws/bans), mining costs, market sentiment, and speculation, leading to high volatility due to decentralization and the absence of a single regulator.

This overview was provided by Alexey Grishchenko, Doctor of Economics, Professor at the Department of Operational and Sectoral Management of the Faculty of "Higher School of Management" at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.