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Why? One major reason: they’ve lost access to their account. In fact, more than $100 billion in Bitcoin is estimated to be lost – but some is recoverable , says at least one firm. A 2017 report from Chainalysis, a forensics company, estimated that between 2.78 million and 3.79 million bitcoins have been lost.

The values of risky assets—like Bitcoin—tend to decline in the wake of the Federal Reserve making policy changes to become more fiscally conservative . More broadly, as Bitcoin matures and becomes more widely adopted, the price of Bitcoin is increasingly correlated with the prices of traditional assets like stocks.

Yet the world’s most famous cryptocurrency has dropped just about 20% so far this year , falling as low as $33,000 on January 24 before rebounding. Just over three months ago, Bitcoin hit its all-time high of nearly $69,000 on November 8, 2021.

The crypto behemoth seems to be losing its grip in the entire crypto market capitalisation as its dominance slipped below 40 per cent , which was in the range of 45-50 per cent during its golden days.