Cartoon: The Challenges of Liquidity
Cryptocurrencies require an even distribution of sellers and buyers to create a healthy, liquid market. However, many cryptocurrencies have an insufficient number of buyers, and therefore rapidly fall into a frozen state that is very hard to reverse. In this context, bitcoin floats relatively close to the top.
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