major cryptocurrencies plunged wednesday after minutes from the federal open market committee’s december meeting showed some officials had extensive discussions of how to more quickly move away from its current easymonetary stance by hiking rates and shrinking its 867 trillion balance sheet bitcoin btcusd declined more than 2500 after the minutes were released at 2 pm eastern time that added to the cryptocurrency’s roughly 6 decline over the past 24 hours recently trading at around 43466 according to coindesk