Investing.com– Bitcoin price fell on Thursday amid renewed concerns over token distributions by Mt Gox and as capital outflows from major exchanges also furthered a risk-off sentiment.
Fears of more selling pressure largely offset positive signals on U.S. inflation and interest rates, and saw Bitcoin and crypto markets lag a rally in their broader risk-driven peers.
fell nearly 4% to $58,467.0 by 01:46 ET (05:46 GMT).
Mt Gox fears back in focus after test transaction
Fears of selling pressure stemming from token distributions by defunct crypto exchange Mt Gox came back into focus this week, after a wallet associated with the exchange and holding $2 billion of Bitcoin was seen carrying out test transactions this week. The move could herald a new round of token distributions by the exchange, after it began returning Bitcoin stolen during a 2014 hack back to clients in July.
While it is unclear just how much Bitcoin Mt Gox’s distributions will entail, traders were skittish over the distributions presenting more selling pressure on the world’s biggest cryptocurrency.
Mt Gox was seen mobilizing about $9 billion of Bitcoin earlier this year.
USDT outflows could herald more price weakness- IntoTheBlock
Digital assets research firm IntoTheBlock said on Wednesday that about $1 billion of the stablecoin was withdrawn from crypto exchanges this week.
Outsized USDT outflows have heralded price weakness in Bitcoin in recent months, with the move potentially indicating that traders were taking money off exchanges in preparation for a risk-off event.
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Broader cryptocurrency prices fell on Thursday, lagging a rally in other risk-driven assets as fears of the Mt Gox distributions and the exchange withdrawals weighed.
Softer-than-expected inflation data did little to lift crypto prices, even as broader risk-driven markets, especially stocks, rallied on the prospect of lower interest rates.
But given that still marked a month-on-month increase, traders were seen positioning for a smaller interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve in September. This notion limited the breadth of the risk-on move.
World no.2 token fell 3.1% to $2,638.30, while , and fell over 1% each.
Among meme tokens, fell 3.4%.
