First Mover Asia: Chilly DOGE, While Bitcoin Simmers Over $28.6K

Pagoulatos saw BTC’s dip Monday following the rumor as a flight to safety. “When people are trading bitcoins, they’re gonna be trading on places like Binance, Coinbase, Bybit,” he said. “And when there are rumors of, say, the CEO of the biggest exchange being a wanted fugitive, people are obviously going to want to withdraw their money, sell their bitcoin, get it off as fast as possible.”