Vildana Hajric And Lu Wang Bloomberg

A brutal bout of selling that wiped billions of dollars from profitless growth companies, IPO stocks and SPACs has now caught up with Bitcoin, further stressing risk tolerances and brokerage balances among small-time traders.

Last week, for example, Bitcoin managed to trade 179 per cent above its average price over the past 200 days, three times as high as the Nasdaq 100 ever got during the heyday of the dot-com bubble.

A brutal bout of selling that wiped billions of dollars from profitless growth companies, IPO stocks and SPACs has now caught up with Bitcoin, further stressing risk tolerances and brokerage balances among small-time traders.

Last week, for example, Bitcoin managed to trade 179 per cent above its average price over the past 200 days, three times as high as the Nasdaq 100 ever got during the heyday of the dot-com bubble.