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That is extremely different. Basically what just happened was 3 years of price changed bottled up into 2 days, because the Swiss stopped pegging the price.

Bitcoin is way more volatile than that on many more periods. As someone mentioned, there was a 20% change in value over a few hours in BTC. Considering that transactions are not instant, that is enough movement for price to change significantly just while validating your transaction.




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