The bitcoin is bleeding because the problems accumulate

The digital currency, whose value has fallen 60% in two months, is haunted by regulatory pressure and financial institutions

If 2017 surprised as the year of the cryptocurrency boom, 2018 threatens to explode the bubble. The bitcoin, the currency in which very few believed a year ago and that in recent times generated excessive expectations, has lost in just two months 65% of its price: from almost 20,000 dollars in December to around 7,000 in the that moved on Monday. Among other problems, bitcoin is harassed by regulatory pressure and banking.

The lovers of bitcoin insist that the key to the cryptorvolution lies not in the price of digital currency: it was not the important thing when it touched maximums or it is now that it accumulates losses week after week, they argue. But apart from the values ​​in red, bitcoin accumulates other clouds. These are some of the most important.