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The cryptocurrency market has misplaced greater than 60% of its worth over the previous few months.

Cypherpunk CEO Jeffrey Gao believes that individuals can sell Bitcoin and be bullish about the cryptocurrency. 

Bitcoin is down by greater than 65% of its worth because the begin of the yr. Bitcoin hit an all-time excessive of $69k in November 2021 however is at the moment buying and selling round $23k per coin.

The bear market has seen some traders, together with Tesla, bought off a few of their bitcoins. Gao mentioned traders can be bullish about Bitcoin and still sell their coins. He mentioned;

“Going ahead, that mentality in direction of threat administration whereas still being bullish over the long run is essential. […] You can be bullish on crypto, however you can still sell out of the market.

Over the long term, at the least at this time limit, I might be extra bullish on Bitcoin conservatively than these different tokens. But over the following two or three months, I’m most likely extra partial in direction of Ethereum and Solana.”

Gao mentioned though he’s bullish about Bitcoin, he’s extra optimistic about sure altcoins like Ether and Solana (SOL). 

The CEO revealed that Cypherpunk began the liquidation course of in early May, previous to the Terra community collapse. He mentioned; 

“By the time that it happened, we probably offloaded about 30% or 40% of the risk. We sold another portion when BTC briefly traded above $30,000 in late May. The final one-third we probably got rid of was sometime in June.”

Gao identified that the broader cryptocurrency market has witnessed pressured liquidations, with a number of the main establishments like Voyager, Three Arrows Capital and Celsius getting concerned in operations that lacked threat administration. 

The Cypherpunk CEO lamented that the absence or close to absence of threat administration is what actually separates the crypto trade from the opposite mature monetary markets. 

The complete cryptocurrency market cap stays above $1 trillion, down from the all-time excessive of $3 trillion recorded in November 2021.