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Bitcoin Crashes 9% as Missiles Strike Kyiv, Airport Captured

The world's largest cryptocurrency by market value was trading about $34,725 at time of writing after passing $39,000 on Tuesday. Markets in Asia are also down during trading day as the scale of war expands.

Mise à jour 11 mai 2023, 5:23 p.m. Publié 24 févr. 2022, 6:49 a.m. Traduit par IA

The price of bitcoin continued to fall as global markets reacted with alarm to the expanding scale of war in Ukraine, with missiles raining down on the capital city in Kyiv and its airport captured by airborne troops.

BTC was down 9% to $34,555 as of the time of this writing, according to CoinGecko data.
Russian President Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Ukrainian forces to surrender, and warned the U.S. and NATO against getting involved.
"Anyone who tries to interfere with us, or even more so to create threats for our country and our people, must know that Russia’s response will be immediate and will lead you to such consequences as you have never before experienced in your history,'' Putin said. “We are ready for any turn of events.”

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The U.S. and its allies are expected to hit Russia with a broad sanctions package in the coming hours. These sanctions are expected to target Russian banks, Putin's cabinet and his circle of business associates but are not expected to cut Russia off from the global financial system.
Russia's former prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, has previously said that disconnecting Russia from SWIFT would be a declaration of war.
However, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has backed down from language calling a potential disconnection a "serious threat" in response to a non-binding resolution passed by the European Parliament in April that called on Russia's expulsion from SWIFT should an invasion take place.
Russia has pushed ahead with the development of a central bank digital currency as an apparent contingency should it lose access to SWIFT.
Within Asia, market reaction was cautious but major stock indices on the continent are in the red.
Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index is down 2% on the day, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng is down 3.3%. In Taiwan the TAIEX is down 2.5% while Singapore's Straits Times Index is down 3%.
Dow Jones futures were down 2% in overnight trading, while futures for the S&P 500 were also down 2%.
CNN has reported that Moscow's stock exchange has suspended trading until further notice.

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Greg Ahlstrand

Originally from California, I've been Asia-based since 1999, headquartered in Hong Kong and Jakarta and traveling throughout the Asean countries, Japan, Korea, the Chinese mainland and Taiwan for stories. Made Australia a couple of times, too.

I started my journalism career as a news assistant at the Fresno Bee in Central California while studying the subject in school after the Navy. I went from launching and recovering helicopters on flight decks at sea to recovering papers fresh off the printer in the Bee's basement and launching them onto the editors' desks, whose editors had long since gone home for the night. Eventually, they let me stop delivering the paper and start writing stuff in it. My first beat was night cops: liquor store robberies, gang shootings, fatal car crashes (almost always alcohol related). It was an education.

I am, as implied above, a U.S. Navy veteran. I served in seagoing helicopter squadrons as an aviation anti-submarine warfare technician throughout the Asia Pacific region and the Indian Ocean. I have a significant number of sailor stories to tell. I have no significant crypto holdings.

Among my hobbies are welding, building stuff, home remodelling, (or knocking a house down and starting from scratch if it's too far gone to fix), riding horses and rebuilding old tractors. So far I've done a Ford 8N and a Ford 9N. It's slow going, because I live in Hong Kong and the tractors are in California, so I only get to work on them once or twice a year, for a week or two at a time - and that was before covid.

I love my Lab, Cooper, whom my neighbors asked me to adopt two years ago when they moved back to Shanghai from Hong Kong. Cooper and I actually planned the whole thing -- we've known each other almost his whole life -- but his first parents are unaware of the conspiracy; and they send him Christmas presents every year.

Sam Reynolds

Sam Reynolds is a senior reporter based in Asia. Sam was part of the CoinDesk team that won the 2023 Gerald Loeb award in the breaking news category for coverage of FTX's collapse. Prior to CoinDesk, he was a reporter with Blockworks and a semiconductor analyst with IDC.