Bitcoin Drops Below $1000

http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-price-is-tanking-2017-3

 Bitcoin is under pressure. Selling on Wednesday has the cryptocurrency down 10.5% at $997 a coin, where it is now more than 20% below its all-time high from earlier this month. There's no obvious trigger for the drop, but trading in bitcoin has been extremely volatile lately as traders parse through a large amount of headline risk. 

On March 10, when the price peaked, sellers slammed bitcoin below the $1,000 level after the US Securities and Exchange Commission rejected the Winklevoss' twins plans for a bitcoin ETF.

The SEC said it was "disapproving this proposed rule change because it does not find the proposal to be consistent with Section 6(b)(5) of the Exchange Act, which requires, among other things, that the rules of a national securities exchange be designed to prevent fraudulent and manipulative acts and practices and to protect investors and the public interest.

"Bitcoin quickly recovered those losses, but plunged just four days later after The Wall Street Journal reported that developers were threatening to set up a "hard fork," or alternative marketplace for bitcoin.The new platform would be incompatible with the current platform, thus creating a split and two versions of the currency. That news sent bitcoin crashing 20% over the weekend to about $950 a coin, its weakest since January.