{"id":63762,"date":"2025-12-16T11:16:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=63762"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:16:47","slug":"bitcoin-btc-collapses-to-85k-aster-aster-crashes-by-12-market-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=63762","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin (BTC) Collapses to $85K, Aster (ASTER) Crashes by 12%: Market Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The last 24 hours have not been kind to the crypto bulls as the entire market experienced a sudden and substantial decline.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin (BTC) briefly fell to as low as $85,100, while some popular altcoins posted even bigger losses. Aster (ASTER) and Ondo (ONDO) are among the worst performers, with their prices nosediving by double digits.<\/p>\n

BTC Bleeds Out<\/h2>\n

Bitcoin\u2019s consolidation at around $90K did not last long, and several hours ago its price plummeted<\/a> to a two-week low of nearly $85K. On the surface, it looked like there wasn\u2019t a major factor that had triggered the sell-off, but a deeper look shows some potential reasons.<\/p>\n

One of those is the reduced chance that the pro-crypto Kevin Hassett would become the new Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Polymarket now leans towards Kevin Warsh, who has a rather cautious view on the crypto industry and has supported the creation of a CBDC in the United States.<\/p>\n

The plunge to approximately $85,100 appears to have been the local bottom (at least for now), as buyers managed to reclaim some lost ground and currently BTC trades around $86,300.<\/p>\n

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BTC Price, Source: TradingView<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Following the recent drop, the asset\u2019s market capitalization tanked to roughly $1.72 trillion, whereas its dominance against the alternative coins stands at 59.2%.<\/p>\n

The Alts Suffered More Serious Losses<\/h2>\n

As it usually happens, the altcoins mimicked BTC\u2019s move, and many of them witnessed even more substantial declines. Aster (ASTER) dropped by 12% on a 24-hour scale to around $0.81, whereas Midnight (NIGHT), Pump.fun (PUMP), Ondo (ONDO), and Worldcoin (WLD) also headed south by double digits.<\/p>\n

Among the very few in green territory today (December 16) are Canton (CC), Provenance Hash (HASH), and Monero (XMR) all posting minor increases in the range of 1% \u2013 2%.<\/p>\n

The total cryptocurrency market capitalization tanked to approximately $3.03 trillion, meaning a significant decrease of 4.1% on a daily scale.<\/p>\n

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Cryptocurrency Market Overview, Source: QuantifyCrypto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The last 24 hours have not been kind to the crypto bulls as the entire market experienced a sudden and substantial decline. Bitcoin (BTC) briefly fell to as low as $85,100, while some popular altcoins posted even bigger losses. Aster (ASTER) and Ondo (ONDO) are among the worst performers, with their prices nosediving by double […]<\/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-63762","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\/63762","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=63762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}