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Bitcoin Price Plunges: Cryptocurrency Market Experiences Sharp Decline in August 2023

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  The price of Bitcoin, the world's first decentralized cryptocurrency, experienced a significant drop of 12% this week. As of August 19, 2023, the current price of Bitcoin stands at $25,977.43 per BTC/USD, which is 62.24% below its all-time high of $68,789.63. This sudden drop in Bitcoin's price can be attributed to several factors. One of the primary reasons for the drop was decreased activity in the market. The crypto market has been experiencing a broader sell-off of risky assets, with Bitcoin accounting for nearly half of the loss. According to CoinGlass, a cryptocurrency trading platform, $1 billion has been drained from cryptocurrencies over the past 24 hours.  Another contributing factor was the growing crisis in China's property sector. The crisis has led to increased market volatility and uncertainty, impacting the price of Bitcoin. Furthermore, a report that Elon Musk's SpaceX sold its bitcoin holdings after writing the value down by $373 million was identifi...

'DART' Mission: NASA spacecraft to crash into asteroid to avert doomsday

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Dart Launch NASA is testing a new planetary defense system designed to knock an asteroid from a potential collision on Earth. But there's no need to panic, this one isn't headed for earth. They are doing that to basically test the technique to save the planet if there was ever killer asteroid coming towards earth. At this point you might be thinking of Hollywood movies like Armageddon where astronauts drill into an asteroid and plant a bomb or Deep Impact where the president orders a nuclear. But the technique in this mission will be a little less dramatic.  A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a spacecraft has blasted off from California on a mission to smash a robot spacecraft into an asteroid.  The Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART will examine NASA's ability to alter an asteroid's trajectory with kinetic force. The mission is to basically go hit an asteroid and see if it can be moved. The DART technique could prove useful for the altering course of an asteroid y...

Successful SpaceX and NASA launch: A major turning point

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Astronauts Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, Shannon Walker, and Soichi Noguchi   Monday night, four astronauts were shot into space in the SpaceX space capsule Crew Dragon in Florida. The goal is the International Space Station ISS, and the journey with the space capsule, which has been named "Resilience," will take around 27 hours. This is the first time a private company has carried out such a mission on behalf of NASA. This is also the second time in history that the Falcon rocket for SpaceX has been used to send people out, after a successful test trip in May, writes BBC. The launch took place at on Monday and SpaceX reports on Twitter that things have gone - and are going - according to plan. - It was a bit of a trip. There were many smiles, Mike Hopkins, one of the four astronauts on board, told the control room about an hour after he and the others were shot into space, writes Reuters. Phil McAlister, head of NASA's commercial space development program, is currently ca...