The cryptocurrency market is making an emphatic return today after days of, with the price of bitcoin [BTC] briefly surpassing $3,700 alongside other major coins printing double-digit gains in the past day.
Litecoin (LTC), the world’s fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, led the charge by surging just over 40 percent from its opening price of $33 to reach a 3-month high of $47. The move was backed by $1.4 billion in trading volume, which is its most since Feb. 20, 2018, according to Coinmarketcap.
Soon after litecoin picked up the strong bid, other well-known cryptocurrencies followed suit.
According to data from (CEX) seven other cryptocurrencies are currently boasting double-digit 24-hour price increase,s including EOS (EOS), ether (ETH), cardano (ADA), bitcoin [BTC] cash (BCH), IOTA, NEO and lisk (LISK).
The world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, bitcoin [BTC] (BTC) is also flashing green.
BTC opened the day with a price of $3,359 but was able to rise just over 10 percent to reach a 20 day high of $3,702. BTC’s price has since slightly pulled back and is now trading at an average price of $3,625, per the CEX.
In all, the capitalization of the broader cryptocurrency market has appreciated roughly 9 percent in the last 24 hours, jumping from $112 billion to $122 billion to clock its highest valuation since Jan. 20th.
As it stands, the market’s $122 billion valuation represents an 85 percent depreciation from its all-time high north of $820 billion set in January 2018.
Disclosure: The author holds BTC, AST, REQ, OMG, FUEL, ZIL, 1st and AMP at the time of writing.
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Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2019 18:21:22 +0000
