Bitcoin appears to be moving into a new period of price discovery.

Following another decision that discovers China's controllers moving to ban beginning coin offerings (offers of new cryptographic tokens regularly traded for bitcoin), the bitcoin price fell to its lowest total since August 22 today.

At press time, bitcoin had declined to recently above $4,000 – stopping at $4,037.50 across over worldwide trades – a 20% decay from its all-time high of $5,013 saw on September 1.

Of the trades followed in the BPI, only one was exchanging underneath $4,000 at the season of the report, with China-based OKCoin showing a $3,969 price. (Paxos' itBit exchange, Coinbase's GDAX exchange and Bitstamp were all trading above $4,000).

In any case, as reported by CoinDesk, the move beneath $4,100 on most real trades could be noteworthy, conceivably predicting a greater move down to $3,769 should the price obey Fibonacci patterns.

The drop comes when the aggregate estimation of all freely issued digital forms of money has seen a comparative decrease, dropping from a high of $179 billion to $145 billion today.

Altogether, the market is presently down about 19 percent from its record-breaking high.

Disclaimer: This article should not be taken as, and is not planned to give, investment advice. Please conduct your own thorough research before investing in any cryptocurrency.