{"id":17139,"date":"2025-03-11T08:01:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T08:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=17139"},"modified":"2025-03-11T08:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T08:01:42","slug":"ethereum-double-trouble-eth-prices-fall-below-1800-price-crash-amid-testnet-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=17139","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Double Trouble: ETH Prices Fall Below $1,800 Price Crash Amid Testnet Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Crypto market capitalization has tanked to its lowest point since early November with $240 billion getting wiped out over the past day.<\/p>\n<p>This has resulted in a 6% fall to $2.6 trillion as all post-US election gains have now been wiped out.<\/p>\n<p>Ethereum has taken the brunt of the fall, losing a whopping 16% over 12 hours as it fell from around $2,140 to just below $1,800. Moreover, ETH is struggling to recover and was trading at $1,860 at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<h2>ETH Death?<\/h2>\n<p>The last time Ethereum traded below $1,800 was in October 2023, when it was slowly emerging from the two-year-long bear market.<\/p>\n<p>There is solid support at current levels, which must be held to prevent the asset from tanking back to bear market lows following the formation of what appears to be a double-top chart pattern.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts have <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CryptoCaesarTA\/status\/1899079271814934866\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">warned<\/a> that if support here is lost, ETH could fall <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/ethereum-tanks-to-16-month-low-as-analysts-predict-plunge-to-1200\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">as low as $1,200<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-11-at-9.49.44.png\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-386863\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-11-at-9.49.44.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2025-03-11 at 9.49.44\" width=\"590\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-11-at-9.49.44.png 590w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-11-at-9.49.44-300x249.png 300w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-11-at-9.49.44-50x41.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ethereum is currently down a painful 62% from its all-time high in 2021, and the ETH\/BTC ratio \u2013 which is a measure of the price of ETH in terms of Satoshis \u2013 is at its lowest level since December 2020, having fallen to 0.023 today,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/symbols\/ETHBTC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">according<\/a> to Tradingview.<\/p>\n<p>Only Dogecoin (DOGE) had heavier losses than Ethereum in the crypto top twenty today, with the memecoin melting by 11%.<\/p>\n<p>It does beg the question of who would be selling ETH at $2,000 and the answer appears to be <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/1-1m-in-eth-what-are-ethereum-whales-preparing-for\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">whales<\/a> that are trying to avoid being liquidated, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1899293860435726491\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a> to Lookonchain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-11-at-9.52.13.png\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-386864\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-11-at-9.52.13.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2025-03-11 at 9.52.13\" width=\"591\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-11-at-9.52.13.png 591w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-11-at-9.52.13-278x300.png 278w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-11-at-9.52.13-46x50.png 46w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, the Ethereum derision and FUD had escalated to new heights on Crypto Twitter as traders and investors licked their wounds.<\/p>\n<h2>Ethereum Testnet Attacked<\/h2>\n<p>The ETH angst has been exacerbated by problems with Pectra testing and an unknown attacker sending zero-token transfers, causing empty blocks.<\/p>\n<p>On March 9, Ethereum developer Marius van der Wijden <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vdWijden\/status\/1898665884236882428\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> the issue had been fixed:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe suspected that the attacker was reading some of our chats, so we decided not to publicize the fix, but only update a few nodes that we controlled in order to get more full blocks on the network,\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/ethereum-double-trouble-eth-prices-fall-below-1800-price-crash-amid-testnet-attack\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ethereum Double Trouble: ETH Prices Fall Below $1,800 Price Crash Amid Testnet Attack<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto market capitalization has tanked to its lowest point since early November with $240 billion getting wiped out over the past day. This has resulted in a 6% fall to $2.6 trillion as all post-US election gains have now been wiped out. Ethereum has taken the brunt of the fall, losing a whopping 16% over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-17139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}