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Alright:

a) The reason why btc is going down can be found by TA as provided by haejin. If you listen to what he tells and try to learn from him (which is the purpose of his blogs), then you should have understood by now that it is price that drives the news and not vice versa. You will eventually understand that news and events are acutally brought up to justify the price. Just take the actual situation as a perfect example; we all knew about this possible btc pullback for long time already due to haejins analysis, and now that it actually happened experts are desperatly trying to find the news that would justify it.

And if you ask why all the cryptos are going down then thats simply because BTC is still the flagship of the crypto world that drives the whole alts-market.

(thats why I'm getting mad when bcash fans are trying to increase their profits by talking shit about btc, altough even if these malicious attacks would actually hurt btc they would harm themselves since they go down with it. maybe now that you have seen the power of btc it will change your behaviour because that's where our romance started)

b) About the attacks on haejin, this is coordinated by berniesanders. here some references:

Are you accidentally helping Rand0whale as a self appointed Steemit censor?
https://steemit.com/steemit/@tarquinmaine/is-rand0whale-the-self-appointed-steemit-censor

Steemit Is Ruled By A Communist Party
https://steemit.com/steem/@lexiconical/steemit-is-ruled-by-a-communist-party-flags-wars-look-worse-to-investors-than-the-rampant-abuse-they-claim-to-fight

Whales and others, their behaviour on full display
https://steemit.com/whales/@taskmaster4450/whales-and-others-their-behavior-on-full-display