After a few months of declines and disappointment, the virtual currency market is starting to recover again. Overall, the value of the defaults rose to highs late last year, with Bitcoin and Ethereum leading the upside.
After the price reached its peak, the wave began to recede by 2018, and Bitcoin dropped from $ 20,000 to less than $ 10,000. The drop spread to several virtual currencies for several weeks, with investors and analysts expecting the collapse of the encryption market bubble and poor public interest in this area .
Recent developments, however, indicate a change in direction. Forbes magazine reported that Bettkin had rebounded by more than $ 1,000 in less than a day, reaching above $ 8,000 at the end of last week.
There are several reasons for the so-called mid-April recovery of the virtual currency market, the most important of which is the effect of US taxes. One of the key questions about virtual currencies is how governments will tax them from all over the world. In the United States, regulators have decided that virtual currencies will be classified as ownership, Making certain transactions subject to capital gains tax.
A report by Brave New Coin, which publishes analysis and research on the technology of the Blockkin and the virtual currency market, suggests that US households may owe up to $ 25 billion of capital gains tax on virtual currency holdings in 2017. With this huge tax, On the horizon for enthusiastic US investors, the slowdown in virtual currency space is likely to be caused by investors who exchange virtual currencies against conventional currencies to cover tax payments.
In the days leading up to the US tax day, the market appears to be shifting. Virtual currency analyst Chris Brinsky is studying the phenomenon that predicts a relationship between the amount of money placed in digital assets and the values of those assets. Berinsky believes that signs of recovery in the virtual currency market could be As a result of taxes paid, with investors now ready to enter the market strongly again.