US-China Trade War Leads Bitcoin Price to Trade Over $12,000

The world’s top cryptocurrency by market capitalization, Bitcoin (BTC), has once more managed to hit and exceed the $12,000 price level after around 3 to 4 weeks trading below that mark. The surge comes after a huge devaluation of China’s fiat currency yuan which touched the bottom level against the United States dollar (USD) since exactly nine years ago. The event is one part of the US-China trade war.

US-China Trade War

It seems the present macroeconomic position is becoming worse and BTC appears to be acting as a hedge against mayhem across the entire market. Considering the current global economic position, the Chinese yuan dropped to the bottommost level against the USD since August 2010 after a big deflation of the currency. However, the event has made the financial markets across the globe including the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq Composite, etc. to also plunge.  

The price instability between the USD and Chinese yuan is connected to the economic tensions currently happening between the US and China. President Donald Trump put several sanctions on various goods and services from China and this has made it very hard for Chinese firms to stay viable and competitive globally. This is one of the reasons why China decided to let its traditional currency to slash, devalue and cheapen against other foreign currencies especially the US dollar. 

Bitcoin could be affected in a positive way by the existing economic insecurity in the international financial markets. Currency battles and trade wars are contributing so much to force people to use and adopt Bitcoin and other altcoins, that are not controlled by any central authority, government or a country.  

BTC/USD Price Analysis  

At press time, Bitcoin (BTC/USD) is trading over $11k at around $11,828.28 (0.89%), with a market cap of $211.26 billion and daily trading volume of about $23.5 billion. In the last 24 hours, Bitcoin managed to trade at a high of $12,273.82 and a low of $11,614.72, according to data from coinmarketcap. The entire MC of over 2425 cryptocurrencies from over 19775 markets, is more than $309.233 bln and 24h volume of $68.756 bln. The BTC market dominance is at 68.2%.  

It seems the market is not currently doing well, for instance, apart from Bitcoin, Monero ( XMR), USD Coin ( USDC), Decred ( DCR), Huobi Token ( HT), TrueUSD ( TUSD),all other top 40 digital assets are all trading in red.