Let's have a look at the bloody facts:
The top 100 cryptocurrencies with the largest market capitalization sufferred very heavy losses today.
The only winners were following the following 4 candidates:
Interestingly, ay the time of writing this article - about an hour ago - there were 5 cryptos having a positive % change. So the situation surely worsens each minute passing.
And following cryptos having suffered the biggest losses:
But as we know from previous "cryptomarket-crashes", the market will recover very soon, with Bitcoin leading another bullish trend.
WHY NOW?
Why is especially cloakcoin having such a run? We don't know. Since it isn't any Chinese currency we can not say it is manipulated by Chinese traders, maybe the very own cloakcoin team himself decided to do s smart move by buying up their own coin and driving the price up, so it would stick out of the losing mass of cryptos and lead to a major buy in, maybe, we don't know.
writes in his latest post that the reason may be in the death rumours of Vitalik Buterin, which has driven the price of ethereum fall down about $100 bucks down to under $270 which has probably shocked the crypto-community leading to this bloody crypto massacre.