Bitcoin Today: Zaif hack and futures closure

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Wednesday was rich in events. To the closure of the CBOE futures contracts news about the hack of the Japanese exchange Zaif($60 million in digital assets, including Bitcoins, Bitcoin Cash, and MonaCoin was stolen) was added causing a flash sell-off, which, nonetheless, did not cause any change in the overall tendency. The sell-off happened at 17:00 UTC on Wednesday and brought the price to the low at 6100, where the price found a strong support and went upwards reaching as high as 6500. After the shake-up the BTCUSD course has stabilized at the 6400 mark. Overall picture stays the same as yesterday: lateral movement inside 6100 – 6600 until the meeting with the Bearish Trend Line, which should occur during the nearest days.

Today forecast
Trading in the 6100 - 6600 zone.

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Zaif hack
In the evening on Wednesday, September 19, the price of bitcoin for a short period of time first fell to $ 6,100, and then swiftly went up, exceeding the $ 6500 mark.
An unusual pattern in the market was accompanied by reports about the hacking of the Japanese stock exchange Zaif.
“Just reported in Japan: Japanese Exchange Zaif hacked, 5966 BTC (37million USD) stolen from hot wallet (stolen 5 days ago, and just reported now!). BCH and MONA also potentially stolen.” - @kaykurokawa
In additional tweets, Kurokawa said that the cost of damage is estimated at $ 60 million. At the same time, two-thirds of the stolen coins were investors' funds, the rest belonged to the stock exchange. The exact number of missing BCH and MONA coins remains unknown.
According to the Kay Kurokawa, the exchange took four days to detect a hack.
“It took them 4 days to notice the hack. The fact that they do not know the missing amount of #BCH and #MONA is another sign of their complete operational incompetence. Is Mark Karpeles MagicalTux running this place?” - @kaykurokawa
In the meantime, Zaif released a post in which the fact of hacking is confirmed. At the same time, unusual activity began on September 14. Also, the exchange representatives are talking about stopping withdrawal of funds and taking deposits.
Despite the fact that the news about Zaif hacking led to a sharp decrease in the price of bitcoin, after just 10 minutes it quickly went up. This time, one of the reasons seems to be the purchase of 5 million market contracts XBTUSD at $ 6469.2 at the BitMEX exchange.
“[19:28:12 UTC] BitMEX XBTUSD 5,000,000 contracts market bought at 6,469.2 with 3.2 slippage” - @BitmexWhale