Sunday, Jan. 27 — most of the top 20 are reporting slight losses on the day at press time. bitcoin () is trading under $3,600 again, according to data.
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At press time, bitcoin is down nearly 2 percent on the day, trading at around , according to CoinMarketCap. Looking at its weekly chart, the current price is about $100 lower than $3,655, the price at which bitcoin started the week.
bitcoin 7-day price chart. Source:
Ripple () has lost over 2.5 percent of its value in the 24 hours to press time and is currently trading at around $0.308. On its weekly chart, the current price is lower than $0.325, the price at which XRP started the week.
Ripple 7-day price chart. Source:
Second-largest altcoin Ethereum () has also seen its value decrease by nearly 2.5 percent over the last 24 hours. At press time, ETH is trading at $114, having started the day about 2 dollars higher. On the weekly chart, Ethereum’s current value is lower than $121, the price at which the coin started the week.
Ethereum 7-day price chart. Source:
Among the top 20 cryptocurrencies, the only ones experiencing growth are , which is up nearly 9 percent, and Binance Coin (), which is up over 2.5 percent on the day at press time.
The of all cryptocurrencies — currently equivalent to about $119.1 billion — is slightly lower than $121.6 billion, the value it reported one week ago.
Total crypto market cap 7-day chart. Source:
As Cointelegraph recently , a link to a clone website had been placed on the official LocalBitcoins forum earlier this week, but the attack has purportedly since been stopped.
Also this week, crypto critic Nouriel Roubini at a blockchain conference that the technology is “no better than an Excel spreadsheet.” Cointelegraph also on recent comments from co-founder that he sold all of his BTC holdings at the of $20,000 in December 2017.
Published at Sun, 27 Jan 2019 12:41:00 +0000
