Bitcoin was trading at $4,429.8 by 08:46 (08:46 GMT) on the Investing.com Index on Tuesday, down 20.74% on the day. It was the largest one-day percentage loss since January 14, 2015.
The move downwards pushed Bitcoin’s market cap down to $77.0B, or 53.84% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. At its highest, Bitcoin’s market cap was $241.2B.
Bitcoin had traded in a range of $4,429.5 to $5,013.4 in the previous twenty-four hours.
Over the past seven days, Bitcoin has seen a drop in value, as it lost 30.48%. The volume of Bitcoin traded in the twenty-four hours to time of writing was $7.4B or 34.15% of the total volume of all cryptocurrencies. It has traded in a range of $4,429.5454 to $6,453.2700 in the past 7 days.
At its current price, Bitcoin is still down 77.71% from its all-time high of $19,870.62 set on December 17, 2017.
Elsewhere in cryptocurrency trading
XRP was last at $0.43007 on the Investing.com Index, down 12.30% on the day.
Ethereum was trading at $130.18 on the Investing.com Index, a loss of 21.04%.
XRP’s market cap was last at $17.1B or 11.97% of the total cryptocurrency market cap, while Ethereum’s market cap totaled $13.6B or 9.51% of the total cryptocurrency market value.