Dogecoin

Ethereum

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 <h2 id="strong-key-takeaways-strong"><strong>Key Takeaways</strong></h2>
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  <li><strong>Bitcoin $71,933, down 0.92% in an hour.</strong></li>
  <li><strong>Ethereum $1,992, down 0.95%, under $2,000.</strong></li>
  <li><strong>Dogecoin led hourly losses at 1.11%.</strong></li>
  <li><strong>Colette Kress named Nvidia interim CEO.</strong></li>
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<p>Nvidia’s board said in a <a href="https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-ceo-transition" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">statement on Thursday</a> that Huang had resigned as president, chief executive and board member with immediate effect, and that chief financial officer Colette Kress would serve as interim CEO. The prices below are from <a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">CoinMarketCap</a> at about 14:22 UTC, within the first hour after the announcement.</p>
<h2 id="what-the-hour-looked-like">What the hour looked like</h2>
<p>Every non-stablecoin in the top 14 was lower on the hour, but the losses came in three distinct bands rather than one uniform move.</p>
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 <p style="margin: 0 0 14px; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: .08em; text-transform: uppercase; opacity: .7;">One-hour change, 14:22 UTC, November 12</p>
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  <p><span style="flex: 0 0 96px;">Dogecoin</span></p>
  <div style="flex: 1; height: 12px; border-radius: 6px; background: rgba(127,127,127,.15);">
   <div style="width: 100%; height: 12px; border-radius: 6px; background: #ef5350;"></div>
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  <p><span style="flex: 0 0 60px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">−1.11%</span></p>
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  <p><span style="flex: 0 0 96px;">Solana</span></p>
  <div style="flex: 1; height: 12px; border-radius: 6px; background: rgba(127,127,127,.15);">
   <div style="width: 88%; height: 12px; border-radius: 6px; background: #ef5350;"></div>
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  <p><span style="flex: 0 0 60px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">−0.98%</span></p>
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  <p><span style="flex: 0 0 96px;">Ethereum</span></p>
  <div style="flex: 1; height: 12px; border-radius: 6px; background: rgba(127,127,127,.15);">
   <div style="width: 86%; height: 12px; border-radius: 6px; background: #ef5350;"></div>
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  <p><span style="flex: 0 0 60px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">−0.95%</span></p>
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  <p><span style="flex: 0 0 96px;">Bitcoin</span></p>
  <div style="flex: 1; height: 12px; border-radius: 6px; background: rgba(127,127,127,.15);">
   <div style="width: 83%; height: 12px; border-radius: 6px; background: #f7931a;"></div>
  </div>
  <p><span style="flex: 0 0 60px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">−0.92%</span></p>
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  <p><span style="flex: 0 0 96px;">Chainlink</span></p>
  <div style="flex: 1; height: 12px; border-radius: 6px; background: rgba(127,127,127,.15);">
   <div style="width: 71%; height: 12px; border-radius: 6px; background: #ef5350;"></div>
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  <p><span style="flex: 0 0 60px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">−0.79%</span></p>
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  <p><span style="flex: 0 0 96px;">XRP</span></p>
  <div style="flex: 1; height: 12px; border-radius: 6px; background: rgba(127,127,127,.15);">
   <div style="width: 48%; height: 12px; border-radius: 6px; background: #ef5350;"></div>
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  <p><span style="flex: 0 0 60px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">−0.53%</span></p>
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  <p><span style="flex: 0 0 96px;">BNB</span></p>
  <div style="flex: 1; height: 12px; border-radius: 6px; background: rgba(127,127,127,.15);">
   <div style="width: 43%; height: 12px; border-radius: 6px; background: #ef5350;"></div>
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  <p><span style="flex: 0 0 60px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">−0.48%</span></p>
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  <p><span style="flex: 0 0 96px;">Zcash</span></p>
  <div style="flex: 1; height: 12px; border-radius: 6px; background: rgba(127,127,127,.15);">
   <div style="width: 43%; height: 12px; border-radius: 6px; background: #ef5350;"></div>
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  <p><span style="flex: 0 0 60px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">−0.48%</span></p>
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  <p><span style="flex: 0 0 96px;">Monero</span></p>
  <div style="flex: 1; height: 12px; border-radius: 6px; background: rgba(127,127,127,.15);">
   <div style="width: 41%; height: 12px; border-radius: 6px; background: #ef5350;"></div>
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  <p><span style="flex: 0 0 60px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">−0.46%</span></p>
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  <p><span style="flex: 0 0 96px;">Hyperliquid</span></p>
  <div style="flex: 1; height: 12px; border-radius: 6px; background: rgba(127,127,127,.15);">
   <div style="width: 31%; height: 12px; border-radius: 6px; background: #ef5350;"></div>
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  <p><span style="flex: 0 0 60px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">−0.34%</span></p>
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  <p><span style="flex: 0 0 96px;">TRON</span></p>
  <div style="flex: 1; height: 12px; border-radius: 6px; background: rgba(127,127,127,.15);">
   <div style="width: 5%; height: 12px; border-radius: 6px; background: #ef5350;"></div>
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  <p><span style="flex: 0 0 60px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">−0.05%</span></p>
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  <p><span style="flex: 0 0 96px;">LEO</span></p>
  <div style="flex: 1; height: 12px; border-radius: 6px; background: rgba(127,127,127,.15);">
   <div style="width: 5%; height: 12px; border-radius: 6px; background: #ef5350;"></div>
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  <p><span style="flex: 0 0 60px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">−0.05%</span></p>
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 <p style="margin: 14px 0 0; font-size: 14px; opacity: .8;">Prices: BTC $71,933, ETH $1,992, SOL $80.69, DOGE $0.06491, LINK $9.81, XRP $1.02, BNB $652.24, ZEC $955.32, XMR $543.59, HYPE $69.67, TRX $0.3154, LEO $9.21.</p>
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<p>The top band is Dogecoin, Solana, Ethereum and Bitcoin, all within a fifth of a percentage point of each other. These are the names that move first and furthest when risk appetite drops, and for once Bitcoin was among them rather than ahead of them. The middle band, from Chainlink down to Hyperliquid, gave up roughly half as much. The bottom band is TRON and LEO, which barely moved, as they tend not to when the selling is about macro risk rather than anything on their own chains.</p>
<p>That spread is the shape of a market-wide risk move, not a crypto-specific one. Nothing in the hour singled out a sector, an exchange or a token.</p>
<h2 id="small-moves-but-through-the-levels-that-mattered">Small moves, but through the levels that mattered</h2>
<p>Less than one percent in an hour is unremarkable on its own. What makes this hour worth noting is where it left Bitcoin and Ethereum. At $71,933, Bitcoin is below both the 200-day average at $73,191 and the 0.500 Fibonacci around $72,561 that Coindoo’s <a href="https://coindoo.com/bitcoin-price-dips-under-74000-as-cpi-prints-0-4-key-levels/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">CPI-day analysis</a> described as the floor the daily chart had not tested since September. At $1,992, Ethereum is under the 0.618 near $2,001 that marks the top of its August base, the line Coindoo’s <a href="https://coindoo.com/ethereum-price-erases-august-breakout-tests-2000/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Tuesday analysis</a> said could decide whether the August breakout had failed.</p>
<p>Both are intraday prints, not daily closes, and both levels were set up to be judged on closes. But the hour did take the two largest assets from “testing” to “below.”</p>
<p>The seven-day column puts the hour in proportion. Bitcoin is down 9.27% on the week, Ethereum 16.23%, Solana 15.16%, and XRP 21.46%, the slide that Coindoo’s <a href="https://coindoo.com/xrp-price-weekly-chart-puts-the-real-floor-at-0-90/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">weekly XRP analysis</a> traced back through its 200-week average. The hourly move is the latest increment of a decline that began before Nvidia had a vacancy.</p>
<h2 id="what-nvidia-said-and-what-it-did-not">What Nvidia said, and what it did not</h2>
<p>The company’s statement named Kress, who keeps her CFO role, as interim chief and said the board would search for a permanent successor. Harvey C. Jones becomes chair, a position Nvidia had never had. Huang co-founded the company in 1993 and had been its only CEO. The board called his contributions “profound.”</p>
<p>The statement did not address the reports about Huang’s personal conduct that preceded it during the past week. It said the company’s operations, customer commitments and product roadmap would continue without interruption.</p>
<h2 id="can-a-chipmaker-s-ceo-move-crypto">Can a chipmaker’s CEO move crypto?</h2>
<p>The case that it can rests on Nvidia’s weight in the AI trade and crypto’s habit of trading alongside risk assets this year. A leadership shock at the largest AI company arriving an hour before the US open is the kind of headline that pulls everything with a high beta lower, and the top band of the chart above is exactly those assets.</p>
<p>The case against is the one the data makes. A rolling one-hour return cannot separate selling that happened before the statement from selling after it, and a drop under one percent sits inside the normal hourly range of a week in which Bitcoin has lost nine percent. The hour is consistent with a Nvidia effect; it is not evidence of one.</p>
<p>The test is the rest of Thursday. If US equities open lower and Bitcoin closes the daily candle under $72,561, the two will have moved together on the day Nvidia lost its founder and the link will be worth taking seriously. If stocks shrug and Bitcoin closes back above $73,191, the hour was noise inside a trend that had its own reasons.</p>
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 <p style="margin: 0 0 6px; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: .06em; text-transform: uppercase; opacity: .75;"><strong>Update, 15:05 UTC</strong></p>
 <p style="margin: 0;">The hour after this snapshot cost leveraged traders more than the price moves suggest. <a href="https://www.coinglass.com/liquidations" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">CoinGlass</a> recorded $213.13 million in liquidations in one hour, of which $188.65 million were long positions and $24.48 million were shorts. Roughly 88% of the wiped-out positions were bets on prices rising, which fits an hour in which every major asset fell and nobody was positioned for it.<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p>The post <a href="https://coindoo.com/bitcoin-under-72k-ethereum-under-2k-as-huang-exits-nvidia/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Bitcoin Under $72K, Ethereum Lost $2K as Huang Exits Nvidia</a> appeared first on <a href="https://coindoo.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Coindoo</a>.</p>

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