The rising worry that has been driving the US market, since President Donald Trump targeted on Tariff commerce wars to assist ship on his marketing campaign guarantees, has trickled all the way down to the crypto market. The Bitcoin’s worry and greed index has dropped from over 70 %, denoting greed, to round 50 %, suggesting rising worry of additional capitulation forward.
As Coinpedia reported, Bitcoin worth faces a possible drop to the assist degree of round $91k once more after being rejected above $102k within the final two days. With the altcoin business already displaying a better optimistic correlation with Bitcoin’s worth motion, it’s protected to imagine that the whole crypto market faces additional short-term weakening.
US Postal Service Disrupts Parcel Supply from China
Because the Trump administration seeks to counter drug trafficking from China to the USA, the U.S. Postal Service introduced it can briefly droop worldwide bundle acceptance from China and Hong Kong posts, efficient February 4, 2025.
Nevertheless, the US Postal Service will proceed to allow the movement of letters and flats from China and Hong Kong.
Influence on the Crypto Market
The US Postal Service has been a significant enabler of enterprise enlargement between China and the USA, extra so within the e-commerce sector, in the course of the previous few years. In 2024, there have been 4 million packages value lower than $800 per day from China.
The newest momentary suspension of worldwide bundle acceptance from China and Hong Kong will closely impression e-commerce giants led by Shein and Temu. Already, using digital belongings within the China-US commerce had gained vital momentum.
Furthermore, the strategies of cost between retailers and prospects of the 2 nations embrace PayPal, Visa, Apple Pay, MasterCard, and Google Pay, amongst others, which have closely adopted digital belongings.