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Bitcoin trails traditional assets in August as the month draws to a close, hampered by ebbing liquidity and lingering worries that governments may sell from their stockpiles of the cryptocurrency.

crypto as the optimism sparked by President-elect Donald Trump’s embrace of the sector begins to cool. Bitcoin fell below $95,000 at one point on Tuesday, while an index of smaller digital assets slid as much as 15%, one of its biggest intraday drops of 2024.

Bitcoin steadied around $40,000 amid a slowdown in outflows from the $20 billion Grayscale Bitcoin Trust that strategists said may help to stanch a two-week slump in the token.

Bitcoin (BTC) has displayed resilience by surging to a more than 19-month high, even as global markets experienced a downturn. 

Bitcoin shrugged off a slide in global markets during a rally to a more than 19-month high, a sign of its decoupling from other assets. The token jumped 5.8% to scale $42,000 on Monday and was just below that level in morning Asian trading on Tuesday. In contrast, gauges of global shares and bonds are nursing losses since the start of the week. “This divergence underscores the current low correlation of crypto with other traditional macro assets,” Sean Farrell, the head of digital-asset strategy at Fundstrat Global Advisors LLC, wrote in a note. Bitcoin’s correlations with the likes stocks and gold have ebbed in 2023 as crypto-specific factors helped to spur a 152% climb in the largest digital asset. A key driver of the gains is the expectation that the US will allow its first spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, potentially widening demand for the token.

Bitcoin surged over $21,000 on Saturday amid optimism that it may have bottomed and inflation may have peaked.

Bitcoin briefly surpassed $25,000 for the first time since mid-June, as momentum continued from a cooler-than-expected US inflation data and progress toward Ethereum’s big upgrade. The largest cryptocurrency rose as much as 2.2% on Sunday to $25,031, its highest level since June 13. It was trading around $24,750 as of 6 a.m. New York time, rising a fifth straight day in a streak fueled by US consumer-price index data that came in below expectations. Ether gained as much as 2% to $2,030.50, having surpassed $2,000 on Saturday for the first time since May 31 amid optimism about completion of its blockchain’s much-anticipated software upgrade known as the Merge. “The next CPI print will be released a mere two days before the Merge, at which point we expect a lot of pre-event momentum to be baked into the market,” said Fundstrat digital-asset strategist Sean Farrell, in a note Friday. “Long and medium-term investors should look to use any dips as buying opportunities.”Crypto struggled through the first half of the year as the Federal Reserve hiked rates to combat stubbornly high inflation, with the prices of Bitcoin, Ether and other tokens falling by more than 50%. With US inflation data coming in below expectations in the past week, potentially paving the way for less-aggressive tightening action from the Fed, risk assets like the Nasdaq 100 Index have advanced — helping foster gains in crypto, which has been strongly correlated with that stocks gauge for months.

Bitcoin dipped to its lowest level in more than five months as cryptocurrencies sank with risk aversion sweeping worldwide markets.