The price of Bitcoin has plummeted by more than 12 percent over the last 24 hours, touching a low of $8,170.
More than $92 mln worth of longs liquidated in a span of one brutal hour.
Bad actors who operated the biggest cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme in history transferred more than 13,000 BTC the day before this massacre happened.
This is not your typical sell-off since the market is most likely taking a hit from a lone whale. He states that PlusToken tries to suppress Bitcoin's every bullish move.
Numerous massive sell-orders on the Bitfinex exchange that were opened just in a span of a few minutes.
While the idea of PlusToken ruling the roost in the cryptocurrency market might sound bizarre, it was actually proved by Chainalysis back in December. The crypto sleuth linked the $3 bln scam to every major Bitcoin dump in the second half of 2019. Notably, the Bitcoin price peaked in 2019 right after the Chinese police cracked down on the token.
Chainalysis estimated that PlusToken had 20,000 more BTC to sell, which might mean that this nightmare might be already over for Bitcoin once the fraudsters cash in all their ill-gotten coins.