At 16:50 UTC during Monday’s trading session, the cryptocurrency fell below $300 dollars for the first time since November 12, 2017, according to CoinDesk’s Ethereum Price Index (EPI).
Almost as soon as it began, the currency was shaken by news of the collapse of MtGox, once the sole bitcoin exchange. If you held one bitcoin at the beginning of 2014, you would have lost 52%