Crypto Meltdown: Trillions Gone, Tariffs Blamed! You Won’t Believe What Happened Next! 🤯

Ah, dear readers, gather ’round as I regale you with a tale of Bitcoin, that glorious neophyte of the digital realm! Just yesterday, it danced its exuberant jig, pirouetting past the astronomical threshold of $88,000, only to find its pirouette interrupted rather abruptly by none other than our esteemed ex-leader, Trump, who decided to throw down tariffs like a chef tossing dough! And just like that, six thousand bucks evaporated faster than a magician’s rabbit! 🎩💨

But wait! The altcoins—those fickle little echoes of Bitcoin—also joined in this tragic ballet of loss, tumbleweeding down their respective price charts. They, too, felt the sharp sting of reality, shedding up to 10% of their value with an exaggerated flair! 💃

BTC – The Grand Fall!

Our protagonist, Bitcoin, had quite the sluggish weekend. Where was its ambition to break the mighty $84,000 barrier? Instead, and rather sadly, it succumbed to gravity, cascading down to $81,000 under the dim light of Sunday evening, as if it were a melodramatic character in a tragic play. But lo! A feeble bounce lifted it again, as tenuous as a spider’s thread, only to be thwarted once more by destiny. 😩

Then came Tuesday, oh what a day! A rollercoaster ride, BTC zoomed up to $85,500 only to plummet back down to $81,200 with the suddenness of a curtain dropping at the climax of a scandalous opera. Ah, but a glimmer of hope shone when whispers of Trump throwing Musk under the proverbial bus floated through the digital ether. Bitcoin’s hopes ascended to peaks of over $88,500! But, alas, the cruel tariffs of our dear president snatched victory from the jaws of triumph, causing BTC to simmer down, a sad little creature once more, settling at a timid $82,000. 😔

After a slight nudge, here it remains, above $83,000, perhaps contemplating its existence in this vast cosmos of finances while its market cap sits perched at $1.650 trillion like a weary traveler awaiting a bus that won’t come. But fear not! Bitcoin still holds court over the altcoins, asserting close to 60% dominance like a ruffled monarch surveying its kingdom. 🚀

Bitcoin price chart

Alts: A Comedy of Errors

And what of the altcoins, you ask? Like lemmings to a cliff, they paraded along, initially sharing Bitcoin’s fleeting glory, only to be met with a harsh reality check that sent them spiraling downwards. The likes of Toncoin, Avalanche, and Solana led the charge into the abyss, each losing a dramatic 6% daily, while others floundered over 10% since their brief moments of fame. 🎭

Even Ethereum, XRP, DOGE, ADA, XLM, and LINK joined the melancholy march, albeit in a less dramatic fashion, but with enough pain to keep the investors wringing their hands. The true nightmares, however, came from HYPE (-10%), CRO (-11%), and PI (-7.5%). Perhaps they were just not cutting it this season. 😉

The total crypto market cap? Oh, it’s down roughly $140 billion since yesterday’s zenith, staggering down to a woeful $2.765 trillion. Such is life in the fast lane of capitalism!

This symphony of volatility has wreaked havoc, obliterating nearly $500 million from overleveraged positions, while longs emerged slightly victorious ($260 million). A tragedy, indeed, as approximately 160,000 traders perished under the weight of their misfortunes, as noted by the shrewd observers at CoinGlass. 🎢

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2025-04-03 11:02