![1EA982C7-D30A-41A4-92EF-31C462D654D7.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmdh1G6b3MTnAt8bZXJa5CXPgH7DFk8RzoHwC4U7hF86Cy/1EA982C7-D30A-41A4-92EF-31C462D654D7.png) Yesterday, I was surfing my phone as usual when I noticed on my Facebook feeds that people were complaining about how red the market was. I tried to brush it off, but curiosity mixed with fear won’t allow it to happen. I had to wait till evening, hopefully, the market must have recovered a bit by then.

Well, evening came—and so did heartbreak.

In the evening, I’d to summon courage to open my wallet, when I saw what’s left in my portfolio , hot tears almost came out. It was like watching my hard-earned money melt away, coin by coin. For a second I thought about the movie “how to get a way with murder”. I wanted to put that movie into practice on all the motivational speakers that encourage me to hodl”, “alt season is near,” or “buy the dip.” Or maybe higher @wakeupkitty assassin service to do a better job for me without any trace.

The first page I ran to was @mikitaly to check out if there was any reason for this rapid fall in price, unfortunately, she haven’t done any post related to it. In case you are new on Steemit, you can go to her page to get updated in crypto news.

Any way, after some digging, the news I got from some comments on binance was because of this trade wars going on between American and the whole world. Can you imagine, Of all the times to start a trade war, it’s now that I invested some money that Donald trump chose to start this his crazy tariffs policy. I even got some of his coin when I read that he supports cryptocurrency expecting it won’t go too low but it turns out, the coin keeps melting down like candle stick each passing day, I’d to sell it off.

At this point, crypto is starting to feel more like a gamble than a calculated investment because with the way the market was red yesterday, not even your technical analysis would have saved you except you are using a stop loss. But thankGod I stuck with spot trading. at least, the chances of getting my money back in months or years to come is there compared to those trading in “futures”. They must have fainted like 4 times yesterday.

But here’s what’s really puzzling me, hopefully someone out there can make me understand better.

We were told that crypto is a decentralized digital asset free from government regulation and control. Now that we’re having a trade war among countries, why is it affecting the price?

***How truly independent is cryptocurrency??***

Because at this point, no matter how much we keep claiming that the technology is free, it keeps dancing to the tune of global politics.