Bitcoin and crypto prices have crashed following their huge rally on the back of Donald Trump's U.S. election victory (despite Elon Musk quietly confirming a crypto market game-changer).
The bitcoin price has crashed toward $90,000 per bitcoin, down from almost $100,000 on Monday. The crypto price correction has wiped around $200 billion from the combined $3.2 trillion market.
Now, after a leak revealed a huge Wall Street earthquake could hit bitcoin next year, traders are nervously eyeing how low the bitcoin price could fall after crypto billionaire Michael Novogratz warned it could drop to $80,000 before bouncing back.
"There’s a ton of leverage in the system right now," Novogratz, the chief executive of crypto financial services company Galaxy Digital, told CNBC. "The crypto community is levered to the gills, and so there will be a correction."
Novogratz predicted the bitcoin price could drop back to around $80,000 per bitcoin but said he didn't expect it to fall under this level—where it was trading ahead of Trump's presidential election victory that signaled a "paradigm shift" for crypto regulation.
"The entire cabinet almost owns bitcoin, and are proponents of digital assets," Novogratz said of the incoming Trump administration, adding he believes it's inevitable that bitcoin eventually crosses the $100,000 per bitcoin level.
"Normally you hit $100,000, you bounce off a bit," he said. "I would not be surprised if you know, we go much higher. We're in price discovery. There's not a lot of supply," Novogratz said.However, other bitcoin price and crypto market watchers are also warning bitcoin could fall a lot lower before it recovers.
