• Peter Schiff highlights Bitcoin's 34% decline against gold since its 2021 peak, raising concerns about a prolonged bear market.

  • Bitcoin’s recent price drop to its lowest since July follows fears of weak U.S. economic growth, impacting market sentiment.

  • Bitcoin sentiment shifts from bullish to bearish within weeks, reflecting market votality and potential for further decline.

Cryptocurrency  expert Peter Schiff has raised his concern that  the leading cryptocurrency by market cap, has been in a bear market for years. Schiff has noted that the leading cryptocurrency is down 34% to gold after hitting its current high in November 2021.

Bitcoin Falls to Lowest Price Since July, Schiff Predicts Further Declines

In a recent post by Peter Schiff through his X platform account, he has highlighted the current Bitcoin trend where he made a comparison with gold sending anxiety among the investors.

https://twitter.com/PeterSchiff/status/1819818723219538182

On Saturday, the Bitcoin price recorded a fall to an intraday low of $59,839, reaching its lowest price point since July 14. Earlier this week, Schiff also predicted that creditors could influence MicroStrategy, which is known as the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, to sell its holdings. 

Bitcoin Sentiment Indicator Drops, Signalling Fear Among Traders

Meanwhile, Bitcoin's  indicator which is helpful for checking market sentiment, shows that traders have become fearful .The indicator currently shows 34 points out of 100 after the most recent update. 

The leading digital asset witnessed an extremely impressive sentiment jump last month. The bulls dominated in less than a week due to a remarkable  price recovery. This move made many institutions invest by adding more Bitcoins to their reserves. However, this time around, Bitcoin went from the highest bullish sentiment in 16 months to the current in a similarly short span of time. 

The cryptocurrency has been on a bearish trend over the past few days due to belief that the U.S. might be on the edge of another weak economic growth following the release of the most recent economic data. According to CoinMarketCap, Bitcoin is currently trading at a price of $60,664.79 signalling a 1.52% decline of its value while it total market cap is reading $1,197,417,440,374 at the time of writing

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