Cryptos: Bitcoin sees bear-market skid — living up to its reputation for seismic price swings

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Bitcoin prices enter bear-market territory over the weekend, defined usually as a decline from a recent peak of at least 20%. However, for the so-called hodl-ers, or those investors who form the base of the bitcoin investment community that maintain their stakes in the asset through thick and thin, this recent slump for the distributed-ledger backed asset is par for the course.