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Bitcoin drops from all-time high but momentum seen intact

Bitcoin drops

Bitcoin was down 1.3% at $65,184 after hitting a record $67,016 on Wednesday, but still above a previous peak of $64,895 seen in April

Bitcoin dropped slightly in Asian hours on Thursday, a day after marking an all-time high on optimism around the launch of the first U.S. bitcoin futures ETF.

The world’s largest crypto currency was last down 1.3% at $65,184 after hitting a record $67,016 on Wednesday, but still above a previous peak of $64,895 seen in April.

We think it’s going to go higher and we can get to 80 or 90,000 by the end of this year easy, but that won’t be without volatility, said Matt Dibb, COO of Singapore-based Stack Funds.

In the past few days, he said, traders were starting to pay high rates to borrow to buy bitcoin futures, and that’s a sign that we could be a bit overextended, and there could be a pullback to come. He anticipated traders would rotate out of bitcoin and into major ‘altcoins’ – other crypto currencies.

Ether, the world’s second largest crypto currency, gained 1% to $4,203 and there were also sharper gains in smaller tokens.

Market players say the latest wave of buying has been supported by the launch of the first U.S. bitcoin futures-based exchange-traded fund (ETF) with investors betting this will open a path to greater investment from both retail and institutional investors.

Existing bitcoin exchange-traded funds and products have seen sharp inflows since September.

Average weekly flows to bitcoin funds totalled $121.1 million in October, up from $31.2 million a month earlier, according to data from London-based CryptoCompare.

The three months prior to September had seen outflows following steep losses for bitcoin in May and June.

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