FTX Bitcoin stash worth same as Mt. Gox 840K BTC before hack

If FTX is sparking new Bitcoin (BTC) bear market lows, BTC value motion has additional to fall to match Mt. Gox.

Knowledge from on-chain analytics agency Glassnode confirms that the “Mt. Gox bear market” nearly a decade in the past nonetheless beats the 2022 lows.

FTX vs. Mt. Gox: Similar, identical however totally different

With the fallout from the FTX bankruptcy scandal nonetheless unfolding, questions stay over what number of main crypto entities will probably be affected and the way huge trade losses will probably be.

BTC/USD fell over 25% final week as the ramifications became known and has did not get well a lot misplaced floor.

On the identical time, a number of comparisons to Mt. Gox have emerged: alleged mismanagement, poor safety and insider buying and selling exercise have all been cited as examples.

The uncooked information, nevertheless, reveals some attention-grabbing extra numbers to remember.

Mt. Gox imploded on account of a large 840,000 BTC hack in February 2014. Simply months earlier than, Bitcoin had seen a recent all-time excessive of round $1,100, with Mt. Gox dealing with round 70% of all buying and selling exercise.

Within the months that adopted, Bitcoin misplaced as much as 85% of its worth versus that prime, bottoming out in January 2015 — nearly a 12 months after the hack.

This cycle turned the primary Bitcoin bear market witnessed on a large scale by hodlers, and it took till December 2017 for one more all-time excessive to emerge.

Quick ahead to 2022, and at its current two-year lows, BTC/USD was down 77% in just below a 12 months in opposition to its newest all-time highs of $69,000.

With the timeframes comparable between FTX and Mt. Gox, the query going through analysts is whether or not BTC value motion will add one other 10% to its drawdown versus its prior peak — or worse.

As Cointelegraph reported, calls for a return to $10,000 had been already in place even earlier than the FTX episode. The black swan chapter, others warned, has, in the meantime, set the crypto trade again a number of years.

What’s in a $400 million wipeout?

Evaluating FTX to an analogous black swan occasion from nearly ten years in the past could seem misplaced. Nevertheless, the numbers concerned are eerily comparable in some respects.

Associated: Bitcoin will shrug off FTX ‘black swan’ just like Mt. Gox — analysis

Mt. Gox misplaced 840,000 BTC, value on the time round $460 million. Earlier than taking place, FTX had a Bitcoin stability of 20,000, according to information from on-chain analytics platform CryptoQuant — additionally value simply over $400 million.

As a fraction of market cap, nevertheless, this 12 months’s losses pale compared to the 2014 drawdown.

Bitcoin’s market cap firstly of March 2014 was $6.9 billion in comparison with $320 billion right now. The general crypto market cap right now is $834 billion, information from CoinMarketCap confirms.

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