<br><div> <p> <span class="quote-pick" data-track-hover="QuotePeek" data-significance="PROMINENT" data-ticker="BTCUSD" data-charting-symbol="CRYPTOCURRENCY/US/COINDESK/BTCUSD"> <a target="_blank" href="https://www.barrons.com/market-data/cryptocurrencies/btcusd?iso=coindesk" rel="noopener"> Bitcoin </a> </span> and different cryptocurrencies have been largely weaker on Friday. The digital asset house continues to face strain amid the fallout from <a target="_blank" href="https://www.barrons.com/articles/ftx-bankruptcy-ceo-crypto-crash-51668177467?mod=article_inline" class="icon none" rel="follow noopener">crypto exchange FTX’s collapse</a>, with indicators that gloom is spreading throughout market individuals.</p> <p>The worth of Bitcoin was edging decrease, down lower than 1% over the previous 24 hours to round $16,500. The most important crypto has held above its latest two-year lows close to $15,550, hit throughout peaks of promoting amid fears over bother at FTX and later its chapter—<a target="_blank" href="https://www.barrons.com/articles/bitcoin-crypto-markets-today-ftx-51668164354?mod=article_inline" class="icon none" rel="follow noopener">the full effects of which are likely still unknown</a>. However Bitcoin has nonetheless fallen some 20% in simply weeks and is now buying and selling at lower than 1 / 4 of its all-time excessive close to $69,000 from a yr in the past.</p> </div>