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The CNY price dropped from around 7000 to below 5000 briefly, as I was watching it on www.bitcoinaverage.com. That's a 28% drop in a few minutes, which surely qualifies as a plunge. It does seem to be recovering, which makes sense since the announcement wasn't particularly aggressive.


We've seen similarly large drops as recently as two weeks ago. This kind of volatility is still normal for Bitcoin. I don't get why folks expect it to be more stable than it is right now. It simply can't be...there's too much new adoption and too much uncertainty and to much evolution happening in the market. We're going to see more drops like this in the future; we've seen it on no news, on more than one occasion.


More than anything else, there is just too much speculation. Much much more than adoption of bitcoin as a currency.


I agree. I was merely answering the question posed.




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