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The COVID-19 pandemic has no doubt had a huge impact on every single financial market. Bitcoin has not been left out of this. The lockdowns of 2020 had markets apprehensive of impending crashes coming. And for a while, it was right. Market prices crashed as the world tried to figure out its way out of the pandemic. But once countries began to find their footing, the markets recovered in a way no one had anticipated.BTC price went up as COVID-19 cases rose | Source:As the number of cases began to die down, so did the price of BTC begin its downtrend. This lasted for a couple of months following May when COVID-19 cases had begun to decline. The price of BTC hit its lowest point in a two-month period following COVID-19 cases hitting a low point in June.
Bitcoin Keeps Climbing With COVID-19 Cases
While Bitcoin price remained low for most of June and July, August has seen a bull rally that has sent the price of the digital asset skyrocketing again. This is attributed to mounting buy sentiment in the market. Although a comparison with the chart of COVID-19 cases shows conspicuous similarities in both charts. Number of COVID-19 cases had also begun to climb at this point. A that had ravaged the country. This was the reason why Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin had sent over $1 billion in donations to an Indian COVID relief fund.Related Reading | Hot Bitcoin Summer. But Why Altcoins Are On The Rebound
Presently, the price of BTC is up, notwithstanding the dip, maintaining the same movement patterns as COVID-19 cases worldwide. An important factor tying the two would be the being given to citizens. When countries went into lockdown due to the pandemic, countries had resorted to paying citizens who could not work to keep them afloat.Featured image from The Economic Times, charts from Twitter and TradingView.com