The price of bitcoin appeared close to recovering above $60,000 over the weekend but has slipped once again at the start of the week, falling below $58,000 on Monday morning.
Several other leading cryptocurrencies also suffered losses, including Ethereum (ether), Binance Coin and Cardano (ada).
Of the top 10 most valuable cryptocurrencies, only Solana (SOL) saw any positive action, with a 3 per cent gain since Sunday.
The downturn saw the overall crypto market fall by more than 2 per cent overnight, though it remains above the $2.5 trillion mark.
It places the market in a kind of limbo, with analysts divided over whether the market has lost its momentum and is entering a bearish phase, or instead the latest price dip is a result of a minor correction that will precede new all-time highs before the end of 2021.
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El Salvador announces ‘Bitcoin City’
10:39 , Anthony Cuthbertson
El Salvador has announced plans to build a new city in the shadow of a volcano, whose geothermal energy is used to mine bitcoin.
The aptly-named Bitcoin City will be financed by a bond offering taking place in 2022 entirely in BTC, President Nayib Bukele told a crowd at the Latin American Bitcoin and Blockchain Conference over the weekend.
It comes just over two months after El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt the cryptocurrency as legal tender.
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El Salvador to build cryptocurrency-fueled “Bitcoin City”
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