Virtual assets are showing weakness, with the price of Bitcoin at one point falling below $69,000.

According to CoinMarketCap, a global virtual asset market tracking site, as of 8:20 a.m. on the 20th, Bitcoin was trading at $70,002 per coin. It at one point hit $72,000 the previous day, but began to fall and dropped to $68,903 around midnight. It rebounded afterward, but $70,000 remains precarious.

A Bitcoin model is on display at Bithumb Lounge Gangnam Main Branch in Seocho-gu, Gangnam-gu, Seoul. /Courtesy of News1

Around the same time, Ether stood at $2,137. That was up 2.73% from a week earlier but down 2.41% from 24 hours earlier. Elsewhere, XRP was $1.44, down 0.79% from 24 hours earlier; BNB was $639.98, down 1.73%; and Solana was $88.97, down 0.9%.

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