Bitcoin settles down Sunday after sudden 20% plunge Saturday

After Sunday’s recovery, bitcoin is still down about 14% over the past five days, and off 20% over the past month. But it’s up about 70% year to date, and 158% over the past 12 months.

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The sharp selloff Saturday followed a downturn in global stocks, and was spread among other crypo assets. Ether ETHUSD, +0.47%, which runs on the ethereum blockchain, lost about 15% at one point Saturday, but it regained those losses, trading at $4,175 by Sunday night. Saturday’s plunge knocked about $400 billion off the global crypto market cap, according to Coinmarketcap.com, before recovering most of that.

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Crypto analyst Nicholas Merten, founder and CEO of Digifox and host of a popular crypto-focused YouTube channel, tweeted Sunday that bitcoin is not facing a bear market — traditionally thought of as a drop of 20% or more from a recent high — but warned its price decline may continue:

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