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Bitcoin attained an all-time high on the 9th of November, 2021 – reaching a peak of $68,500. Industry analysts are indicating that lacking supplies is a dominating factor underlying this peak, as some reports demonstrate that 85% of current supply has very much stayed dormant for the previous three months. 

According to CoinGecko, which undertakes tracking of the cryptocurrency market, the cumulative worth of all digital coins is presently US$ 3.1 billion, (approximately $2.7 billion). This implies the price nearly quadrupled since the start of this year. 

The supply of Bitcoin held on exchanges has now attained a historical low and Bitcoin has appreciated in price regardless of the lack of significant news events about the planet’s leading cryptocurrency. This indicates we are in a HODL wave, an abbreviation that stands for ‘hold on for dear life,’ which implies more and more people purchased their Bitcoin for the long term. Analysts are indicating $75,000 as a new target on the upside, however if the price takes a turn in the downward direction, the prices could drop to a moving average at approximately $56,000. 

Ethereum also attained a new all-time high today reaching $4,842. ETH is currently approaching the really important psychological level of $5,000 which will probably be a robust resistance. The reason attributed to this strong price action is also lacking supply, as Ethereum is being burned at a quicker rate than it is being made. The BTC market cap is now more than that of Facebook and Tesla and BTC dominance is at 44%, which is lesser than usual. 

Intense volatility is an inherent aspect of cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin remains on track for topping their biggest monthly increase and decline. It encountered one of their record highs of 37.5% decline just six months back, in May 2021, and consistently witnesses drops as low as the 37% drop observed in November 2018 and 40% slide in September 2011.

Cryptocurrency in its entirety value someplace on the upskirts of 202 billion US$ which provides justification to the curiosity behind researching price fluctuations and the several basic reasons behind it. The word cryptocurrency has been seen a lot of usage in this previous year owing to the latest cryptocurrency bubble which happened around spring of 2018 where the price of a cryptocurrency referred to as “bitcoin” appreciated to 20,000 USD for a single unit. To obtain a slight notion of