Bitcoin Breaks $4,000 as Top Cryptos See Growth

-
Saturday, March 16 — nearly all of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting slight to noteworthy gains on the day by press time. Bitcoin (BTC) has broken the $4,000 mark, according to CoinMarketCap data.

Market visualization from Coin360
Market visualization from Coin360
At press time, Bitcoin is up over two percent on the day, trading at around $4,035, according to CoinMarketCap. Looking at its weekly chart, the current price is nearly two percent higher than $3,958, the price at which Bitcoin started the week.
Bitcoin 7-day price chart. Source: CoinMarketCap
Bitcoin 7-day price chart. Source: CoinMarketCap


CoinMarketCap data also reveals that yesterday Bitcoin’s trading volume exceeded $11 billion, which is the highest value it reported since April 25, 2018, when the coin’s price was $8,845.
Ethereum (ETH) is holding onto its position as the largest altcoin by market cap, which is at about $14.9 billion. The second-largest altcoin, Ripple (XRP), has a market cap of about $13.1 billion by press time.
ETH is up by over four percent over the last 24 hours. At press time, ETH is trading around $141, after having started the day at $135. On its weekly chart, Ethereum has seen its value increase by over two percent from 138, the price of ETH one week ago.
Ethereum 7-day price chart. Source: CoinMarketCap
Ethereum 7-day price chart. Source: CoinMarketCap
Recently, the research arm of major cryptocurrency trading platform BitMEX has revealed in a blog post that its Ethereum Parity full node contains a potential bug.
Second-largest altcoin Ripple has gained 1.3 percent in the 24 hours to press time and is currently trading at around $0.318. Looking at the coin’s weekly chart, its current price is over a percent higher than $0.314, the price at which it started the week.
Ripple 7-day price chart. Source: CoinMarketCap
Ripple 7-day price chart. Source: CoinMarketCap
Among the top 20 cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is experiencing the most notable growth, up over 10 percent on the day.
The total market cap of all cryptocurrencies is currently equivalent to nearly $140 billion, which is 3.7 percent higher than $134.8 billion, the value it reported a week ago.
As Cointelegraph reported earlier today, senior advisor for digital assets at the United StatesSecurities and Exchanges Commission Valerie Szczepanik reportedly noted that stablecoins could experience issues under current securities laws.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Google Open Source it's Google I/O 2019 Android App

-
Image
Google I/O Android App Google I/O is a developer conference held each year with three days of deep technical content featuring technical sessions and hundreds of demonstrations from developers showcasing their technologies. This project is the Android app for the conference. For a simpler fork of the app, check out the  Android Dev Summit App in the adssched branch . In this variant some features are removed, such as reservations and the map screen, and new features are added: notifications, Instant App support and more modern dependencies. Features The app displays a list of conference events - sessions, office hours, app reviews, codelabs, etc. - and allows the user to filter these events by event types and by topics (Android, Firebase, etc.). Users can see details about events, and they can star events that interest them. Conference attendees can reserve events to guarantee a seat. Other features include a Map of the venue, informational pages to guide attendees durin
Read more

Nikita Voloboev - His wonderful world of macOS Applications

-
a list of applications, alfred workflows and various tools that make my macOS experience even more amazing He use a lot of applications on his mac. Here is a list of the ones that he love and use the most in his day to day life, sorted by their importance 1.  Alfred this is by far his favorite application that he have. It saved him  a lot of time  in his life and has a really great  community  and  very powerful workflows  that you can use he have attached the ones he use the most to  this repo  feel free to use any that you like 2.  MindNode an application which allowed me to create all of the mind maps from  Learn Anything it is an incredible joy to make mind maps in this app and he use it to visualize everything  my notes, my projects, my plans, my thoughts 3.  Karabiner one of the applications he cannot live without, allows me to bind any key that I want. You can take a look at the config files he use for it  here  alongside more information of how I use it
Read more

Free Tools for Teams and Collaboration For Developers

-
scinote.net  — Scientific data management and team collaboration. One Team with unlimited number of users, backup and 1 GB storage space appear.in  — One click video conversations, for free meet.jit.si  — One click video conversations, screen sharing, for free flowdock.com  — Chat and inbox, free for teams up to 5 slack.com  — Free for unlimited users with some feature limitations stride.com  — Free for unlimited users with some feature limitations gitter.im  — Chat, for GitHub. Unlimited public and private rooms, free for teams up to 25 hangouts.google.com  — One place for all your conversations, for free, need a Google account seafile.com  — Private or cloud storage, file sharing, sync, discussions. Private version is full. Cloud version has just 1 GB yammer.com  — Private social network standalone or for MS Office 365. Free with a bit less admin tools and users management features helpmonks.com  — Shared inbox for teams, free for Open Source and nonprofit organizations t
Read more