The Bitcoin price is still falling on Wednesday, September 25th, going below $8500 . As you can imagine, panic selling is also affecting the altcoins, with most currently suffering double digit percentage losses against USD.
Bitcoin started yesterday at $9,692. By 18:35 UTC, the BTC price had fallen 3% to $9,402. Within 30 minutes the BTC price had fallen another 7.76% to $8,672.
Also by 19:46 UTC, BTC-USD had gone below the $8,200 mark, meaning a loss of almost 17% in the preceding 24-hour period.
The last time the BTC price was below $8,200 was June 12th.
The altcoins are also suffering double-digit percentage losses against USD as you can see below:
- Ethereum (ETH): $160.92 (-23.47%)
- XRP: $0.236 (-17.07%)
- Bitcoin Cash (BCH): $235.71 (-22.02%)
- EOS: $2.62 (-31.99%)
- Binance Coin (BNB): $15.57 (-22.42%)