Bitcoin Keeps Slipping

Bitcoin price drops more than $1,000 to fall below $17,000 per coin. The drop comes after one of the largest crypto trading platforms, Coinbase, launched and then suspended trading in bitcoin cash — a spin-off of bitcoin. Total cryptocurrency market capitalisation passes $600 billion. LONDON — The price of bitcoin has dropped below the $17,000 mark during trading early in the European morning on Wednesday following a series of troubling developments for the cryptocurrency in recent days.