Market Wrap: Bitcoin Slides as US Lawmakers Wrangle Over Crypto Tax Proposal

Bitcoin (BTC) was lower for a third straight day, slipping toward $44,000 after the largest cryptocurrency by market value reached a three-month high of nearly $46,800 earlier this week. 

“There just isn’t much of an appetite right now for bitcoin above $46,000, but you’re not seeing a massive sell-off either,” Matt Blom, head of trading at the digital-asset firm Eqonex, said Thursday in a Zoom interview. 

Prices for ether (ETH), the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain and the second-biggest crypto overall by market cap, were also down, holding just above the $3,000 mark as of press time. 

“The crypto market is taking a breather after a week of positive price performance,” investment-research firm FundStrat wrote in an emailed note.    

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