When the hard fork arrived–and participants had to choose which path to take–the entire cryptocurrency market dropped. This is very likely what caused bitcoin to drop from the $6,000 range to around the $3,000-$4,000 range. Which brings us to today, with the cryptocurrency bottoming out at less than 80% of what it was a year ago.
It’s always hard to know exactly what is driving crypto prices given the opacity of the market and a certain rather large player whose name rhymes with weather, but we think it’s probably partly related to the same market madness that drove GameStop to da moon, as well as to a desire for an alternative to central bank-issued money due to worries about the government overreach (by means of Covid restrictions), and also endorsements from chief executives at the likes of PayPal, Tesla and Twitter/Square.

Since the first digital currencies were devised after the financial crisis, $2.3tn has been invested in them. But how do they, and other assets transacted on blockchain technology, actually work? And what risks do they pose? Read our explainers
The value of Safemoon is currently sitting at $0.000003803 - up almost 23% over the past 24 hours, according to CoinMarketCap.