The transition to the new year has not been particularly upsetting for cryptocurrencies, and for Bitcoin in particular.

The king of digital currencies was down 0.2% at $16,551.22 in the past 24 hours, according to data firm CoinGecko. 

Cryptocurrency prices did not move much in the last week of 2022. Bitcoin (BTC) prices thus closed the last week down almost 2%. Over the past year as a whole, the first cryptocurrency in the world in terms of market value has seen its value collapse by 65%.

This fall has impacted the entire cryptocurrency market, the value of which has fallen below $1 trillion. This market is currently worth $828 billion compared to over $3 trillion in November 2021. 

For the first day of 2023, the crypto market was down 0.4%.

Cryptocurrencies are impacted by different factors. 

There are external reasons such as the fact that investors now treat crypto assets like technology stocks. This means that they liquidate them as soon as there are economic uncertainties as is currently the case. 

Many economists are predicting, for example, a recession in the United States in 2023. To prepare for this sharp slowdown in economic activity, many investors are reducing their exposure to risky assets such as cryptocurrencies.

The sector suffers above all from numerous scandals linked to the crypto sphere. There was the liquidity crisis that affected many prominent crypto lenders in the summer of 2022 following the unexpected collapse of sister tokens Luna and UST, or…