Bitcoin loses $ 8,000 in five days

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is called a free fall. The price of bitcoin went from $ 19,700 last Sunday to less than $ 11,000 this Friday, a drop of 45%. It stabilized a few hours later at $ 13,000. Faced with the roller coaster that generated too much traffic, the Coinbase market, a bitcoin exchange platform, was even forced to take a break on Friday. Bitcoin has recently attracted the general public Long-term investors were sitting on such huge gains that a correction was inevitable, "said analyst Benjamin Robert on the CNBC financial chain Bruno Le Maire wants a discussion on bitcoin The Minister of the Economy of Finance, Bruno Le Maire, said Sunday on LCI that he "will propose to the next presidency of the G20, the Argentine presidency, (that) on the occasion of the G20 summit in April, we have a joint debate on this bitcoin issue, on the risk assessment and on the bitcoin regulatory possibilities ".Bitcoin is a controversial virtual currency and payment method peer-to-peer It is not issued by banks but created by computers using algorithms.