Bitcoin’s price rally that drove it past $81,000 on a couple of occasions in the past week came to a halt after the hawkish stance by the new Fed Chair displayed yesterday, and the asset slipped to a five-day low of under $77,000.

Most altcoins followed suit, posting 3-5% daily declines. Ripple’s XRP, which recently peaked at $1.70, initiated another leg down, dropping below $1.40.

BTC Dips Below $77K

The primary cryptocurrency’s explosion that began on August 19 took it from under $65,000 to almost $80,000 in 48 hours last week, where it finally faced some resistance and slipped to $75,500 during the previous weekend. However, the bulls quickly regained control and pushed the asset north as the new business week began.

At first, BTC challenged the $80,000 level, which the bears managed to defend initially, but buyers were more persistent and drove bitcoin above it to $81,000 on Tuesday morning. It couldn’t keep climbing and retraced to $79,000 on Wednesday.

The bulls returned in full force on Thursday and Friday morning, pushing the cryptocurrency to another 15-week high of $81,500. Nevertheless, BTC was rejected once again, and the Jackson Hole speech didn’t bring any positives. Shortly after its conclusion, the hawkish stance by Warsh resulted in another leg down for bitcoin, dipping below $77,000 within an hour or so.

Although it has rebounded slightly to over that level now, bitcoin is still more than 2% down on the day. Its market cap has declined to $1.555 trillion, while its dominance over the alts remains above 57%.

Alts Back in Red

Ethereum is down by almost 3% in the past 24 hours as it was rejected at $2,500 once again and now sits at $2,430. BNB has slipped further away from the $700 level, now trading beneath $690. XRP tanked from $1.45 to $1.38 as of now, following a 3.2% daily drop.

SOL, DOGE, LINK, XLM, and HYPE have produced similar losses, while BCH has slumped by more than 7% to under $250. RAIN and XMR are among the few alts with slight gains today.

The total crypto market cap has decreased by $80 billion from yesterday’s top to $2.720 trillion on CG.

Source: CryptoPotato