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After a Brief Decline, Crypto Market Cap Is Stable Around $130 Billion, Stocks Are Down

After a brief decline, crypto market cap is stable around $130 billion, stocks are down

After a Brief Decline, Crypto Market Cap Is Stable Around $130 Billion, Stocks Are Down

After a brief decline, crypto market cap is stable around $130 billion, stocks are down

Thursday, Feb. 28 — crypto markets continued trading sideways, while the total market capitalization has remained stable around $130 billion after a major sell off on Feb. 24, according to CoinMarketCap.

Market visualization from Coin360

Bitcoin (BTC) is trading around $3,865, up around 0.3 percent over the past 24 hours at press time. With that, the biggest crypto has seen some volatility on the day, with its intraday low of $3,787, and the high of $3,906. After the Sunday sell off, Bitcoin is down 2.15 percent over the past seven days.

Bitcoin 24-hour price chart. Source: CoinMarketCap

The top altcoin Ethereum (ETH) is up less than 0.1 percent, and is trading at $137.23 at press time. The second crypto by market cap is down about 6 percent over the past seven days. Earlier today, Ethereum dropped to as low as $131.6.

Meanwhile, major upgrades of Ethereum blockchain are set to take place soon today, with both Constantinople and St. Petersburg updates scheduled to happen at Ethereum’s block 7,280,000. According to Ethereum block explorer Etherscan the Constantinople upgrade will be activated in less than one hour from press time.

Ethereum 24-hour price chart. Source: CoinMarketCap

Ripple (XRP), the third top cryptocurrency by market cap, is down about 0.2 percent over the day, and is trading at $0.314 at press time. Similarly to the overall trend on the market, Ripple has seen a major dip today before recovering, having dropped to as low as $0.309 earlier today. Over the past 7 days, XRP is down about two percent.

Ripple 24-day price chart. Source: CoinMarketCap

Some of the top 20 coins are seeing more volatility on the day. Binance Coin (BNB), the tenth largest coin by market cap, is up 4.17 percent, and is trading at $10.36. In contrast, Bitcoin SV (BSV) the Craig Wright-supported hard fork of Bitcoin Cash (BCH), is down around 3.3 percent, but is still up three percent over the past seven days.

Total market cap amounts to $130 billion at press time, while daily trading volume has slightly rose to $29 billion from around $26 billion yesterday.

Total market capitalization 7-day chart. Source: CoinMarketCap

Earlier today, Bloomberg reported that Singapore’s Government Investment Corporation (GIC) was one of the investors that helped to raise $300 million for major United States crypto wallet provider and exchange service Coinbase in 2018.

Also today, the New York Times (NYT) posted an article alleging that social media giant Facebook is planning a highly secretive crypto initiative that intends to integrate its three fully-owned applications including WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram, and create a token with exposure to its totally combined 2.7 billion monthly users.

The United States stock market tumbled today amidst talks between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, as CNBC reported. At press time, The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is down 36 points, while S&P 500 dropped around 0.1 percent at press time. The Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.04 percent as of press time.

Oil prices have followed the downtrend of stocks, after U.S.-North Korea nuclear negotiations ended with no deal, according to The Wall Street Journal. However, at press time, oil prices are seeing some growth, with West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil and OPEC basket having rose around 0.3 and 1.3 percent respectively, according to Oilprice.com. On the other hand, Brent crude is down 0.4 percent.

According to CNBC, gold prices have almost touched its two-week lows, as the dollar recovered losses after comments from U.S. Trade Representative who weakened investors’ expectations for a closure to the tariff war with China. As of press time, spot gold is down 0.38 percent at $1,315 per ounce, while U.S. gold futures are down around 0.4 percent at $1,314.

Published at Thu, 28 Feb 2019 20:04:33 +0000

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Roger Ver Confirms He’ll Sell His Bitcoin: 130K BTU Trade a ‘Great Deal’

Roger Ver has received a pre-hard fork trade offer worth “up to” 130,000 bitcoins in a bargain receiving heavy publicity.


Ver: Up To 130k Trade ‘Sounds Like Great Deal’

According to a post of the Bitcointalk forum, a bitcoin bagholder known as “Loaded” signed a message from a wallet containing 40,000 BTC.

In the message, Loaded challenges Ver to a one-to-one BTC/BTU trade in the event of a hard fork occurring.

“@RogerVer lets make a deal, 1 for 1 trade. At least 60k, possibly up to 130k, my BTU for your BTC,” the message reads.

“The offer is open to Jihan Wu as well,” Loaded continued in a further post.

Consider it primarily as a vote of no confidence in the bitcoin Unlimited software and development team as it currently stands. I’ll add the contingency that the deal is null and void if there are major changes to either.

Responding to the offer, Ver seemed enthusiastic.

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“This sounds like a great deal for both of us.  I look forward to ironing out the exact details and terms,” he said, adding he was too busy to confirm for the next two days.

Ver to Dump BTC Stash as Foreboding Grips bitcoin

While the trade cannot go ahead unless or until bitcoin Unlimited becomes a separate chain, Ver has already signaled his own vote of no confidence in Core, stating in an interview with MadBitcoins at the weekend that he would dump his BTC holdings.

Rumored to have a total of around 300,000 coins, the trade would produce significant downward pressure on the price of BTC, though it seems that some “whales” will be ready to scoop up Ver’s coins in no time.

Uncertainty over the future and its consequences is meanwhile filtering through the rest of bitcoin’s best-known names.

Rhetoric first over the so-called UASF, then later changing bitcoin’s proof-of-work algorithm, is now increasingly concerned with value protection.

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In his latest blog post titled “For the Love of bitcoin,” entrepreneur and veteran commentator Vinny Lingham cited the “old adage” in investment that “markets will stay irrational longer than you can stay liquid.”

“Roger Ver confirmed exactly what I wrote in [a previous post] ‘A Fork in the Road’ — that he will be dumping his BTC. That will send the market spinning, for sure,” he added.

bitcoin Unlimited meanwhile suffered another denial of service attack Tuesday, with its node count plummeting in minutes due to a bug occurring “just six lines above” the previous one, which halved node numbers last week.

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Also predicting the forked future is Bitfinex, which is currently offering BTU futures at a rate of $351 per coin at press time. BTC futures, with the ticker BCC, are trading at $720.

What do you think about Roger Ver’s trade? Let us know in the comments below!


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