The market is already on the mend, but bitcoin prices are still down about 10%.
After a run-up in prices ushering in Coinbase’s long-awaited market debut earlier in the week, the cryptocurrency market plummeted early Sunday after blackouts in China led to massive declines in bitcoin’s mining rates—tanking prices and spurring billions of dollars in liquidations. “Price and hash rate [have] always been correlated,” cryptocurrency researcher and former Forbes contributor Willy Woo said in a series of early Sunday tweets, referencing a similar flash crash in November 2017 and noting that once the hash rate started to normalize in both instances, the price of bitcoin also started to recover.
