On Tuesday, August 14, the bitcoin rate (TIKER: BTC.EXANTE) fell to $6,000. At 08:10 (GMT + 1) the first cryptocurrency is traded at the BitForex exchange at $5,969.39, BitMEX - $5,978.5, and Binance - $5,963.44. The weighted average rate is $6,010.59 (-6.32%), capitalization of the cryptocurrency is $103,4 billion.
The bitcoin continues to be pressured by the news that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has postponed the decision on bitcoin-ETF of VanEck and SolidX for more than a month, until September 30.
In addition, almost entire cryptocurrency market went into red zone, the leader of the drop in the top-10 being the ethereum (TIKER: ETH/USD.BITFINEX), which fell to a minimum in nine months. At 8:10 the ethereum is traded at around $270,63 (-15,4%).
According to experts, the depreciation of the second cryptocurrency may be due to the massive sale of coins by ICO startups.