Saturday, May 5 : All eyes are on the markets this week as they consolidate a rally to levels not seen since early March, with Ethereum (ETH) and bitcoin (BTC) leading the way, as data from shows.
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(BTC) has been tantalizingly close to breaking the $10,000 threshold, trading at to press time, and as high as $9,991 over the 24 hour period.
bitcoin price chart. Source: Cointelegraph
Crypto commenter Joseph Young has pointed out that looking beyond the global markets’ average, BTC has in fact already broken through $10,000 on Asian markets:
At last $10,000 here we come!
bitcoin already $10k in South Korea and Hong Kong.
We’re not too far away from “I wish i bought bitcoin at $6,000 and Ether at $400”
— Joseph Young (@iamjosephyoung)
(ETH) continues its impressive rally, trading at to press time. The altcoin’s monthly gains have surpassed an astonishing 115 percent. For now at least, the positive response to news of forthcoming for ETH’s platform appears to be eclipsing the impending SEC enquiry into a for ETH this coming Monday, May 7.
Ethereum price chart. Source: Cointelegraph
Total Market Cap is edging closer to half a trillion, now at, according to data from Coinmarketcap. A market of this size can by major institutional players, as Blockchain Capital partner Sencer Bogart remarked Friday on CNBC.
Investment banking giant Goldman Sachs in fact preempted its Wall St competitors earlier this week, with its that it will offer clients bitcoin trading products, beginning with , “within weeks.” The bank claimed it had been “inundated” with client interest.
Among the other top ten coins by market cap, (BCH) has seen a hefty 13 percent uptick over the twenty four hour period, up over ten percent against BTC. This notwithstanding the recent furore which saw BTC supporters , and subsequently , a lawsuit against BCH-proponent Roger Ver’s site bitcoin.com for allegedly misleading buyers by purposefully blurring the distinction between the two coins.
bitcoin Cash price chart. Source:
BTC dominance is now at 36 percent, as per . If BTC does indeed reclaim $10,000 globally today, the overall market picture is somewhat different to when it in November 2017: back then, total market cap was at $300 bln, with BTC dominance at 52 percent. The market is 55 percent larger today.
Published at Sat, 05 May 2018 14:26:54 +0000
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