UNITED STATES – The most popular crypto currency in the world bitcoin falls on Wednesday trading below the $ 11,000 mark on investor anxiety over tight regulation of cryptology in South Korea, according to the bidding data.
According to the portal CoinMarketCap, as of 7.53 MSK bitcoin was down 1% – to 10.67 thousand dollars. At the Bitfinex exchange, the Crypto-currency decreased by 1.52% – to 10.7 thousand dollars, on the GDAX – by 2.12% – to 10.6 thousand dollars.
According to the Coindesk portal, bitcoin went down 2.09% to 10.6 thousand dollars.
According to CoinMarketCap, some other crypto-currencies also declined in value: Ethereum – by 1.59%, to 970.9 dollars, Bitcoin Cash – by 1.13%, to 1.6 thousand dollars. At the same time, Ripple went up by 0.65%, to 1.32 dollars.
Capitalization of the market, according to the service, is currently 518.02 billion dollars. Bitcoin accounts for about 35% of the total market.
On Tuesday, the agency Yonhap, citing an official source, said that in South Korea will be banned anonymous cryptotrading.
Innovations come into force already from January 30. Now for the trade in crypto currency, each trader is obliged to identify himself with the help of a bank account.
In addition, the report noted that accounts belonging to foreigners and minors will be blocked for operations with crypto-currencies.
On Monday, the agency also wrote that several crypto-exchange exchanges may be forced to pay tax at a rate of 24.2% on revenue over the past year. At the same time, they will have to transmit data on user transactions.
Players also expect that later on Wednesday an independent US rating agency Weiss Ratings will issue a classifier containing an investment valuation of a number of popular crypto-currencies.
According to experts, such a classifier will draw attention of institutional investors and “new money” to this developing market.
In addition to bitcoin, the classifier will include Ethereum, Ripple, Bitcoin Cash, Cardano, NEM, Litecoin and other popular digital assets.
According to the company’s representatives, the model of the investment appraisal used in the classifier will take into account “thousands” of various indicators, including features of technology, the degree of real use of a particular coin, and crypto-data.
