On December 22 Bitcoin, as many other cryptocurrencies, had the most significant drop since 2015: the prices plunged below $11.000 and then they stabilized around $14.000. This kind of correction was inevitable for many analysts, after Bitcoin’s price doubled two times over two months and hit a record high of $19,857 (one year ago Bitcoin’s value was around $1.000).

Moreover, other altcoins had even better performance compared to Bitcoin: Ethereum is up over 7.000 percent and Litecoin is up 5.400 percent. Those huge performances have attracted mainstream attention and people and financial institutions are jumping in the crypto-market more and more every day. However, Friday bloodbath should be a first warning to all people who are not familiar with cryptocurrencies , or any other investments, and turned to Bitcoin for an easy source of earnings.

Forbes’ Jessie Damiani indicated 6 possible explanations why the Bitcoin prices dropped so low, while some see the drop as fallout from long-unresolved problems with Bitcoin’s infrastructure.

The drop is probably not the Bitcoin’s bubble burst invoked by many analysts over the year, but Bitcoin’s extreme volatility proves this market is risky almost as any penny stocks out there.