The price of the digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin fell this week by half from a peak last month of $19,500 per “coin.”
When the price was soaring in December, there was a huge speculation frenzy. But as of Wednesday, Bitcoin was trading as low as $9,200 in a drop almost as sharp and sudden as the December surge. (As of Thursday evening, it was up to $11,235.) And coin holders are rattled — one of the top posts this week in the cryptocurrency Reddit community was a post on suicide hotlines.
Here is the graph!!!!.