Category: crypto

Litecoin was trading at $32.135 by 08:48 (08:48 GMT) on the Investing.com Index on Tuesday, down 20.62% on the day. It was the largest one-day percentage loss since September 14, 2017.   The move downwards pushed Litecoin’s market cap down to $1.974B, or 1.38% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. At its highest, Litecoin’s market […]

XRP was trading at $0.52934 by 06:17 (06:17 GMT) on the Investing.com Index on Sunday, up 10.39% on the day. It was the largest one-day percentage gain since November 6.   The move upwards pushed XRP’s market cap up to $20.87807B, or 11.21% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. At its highest, XRP’s market cap […]

Major cryptocurrencies bounced back on Friday morning in Asia after a two-day sell-off that drove Bitcoin to a one-year-low. The market is still feeling the impact of the downfall earlier this week, which also caused a nosedive in the share values of chip designers shares while a digital token miner saw it’s application for an […]

Litecoin was trading at $43.087 by 15:44 (15:44 GMT)  on Thursday, down 10.62% on the day. It was the largest one-day percentage loss since November 14. The move downwards pushed Litecoin’s market cap down to $2.501B, or 1.38% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. At its highest, Litecoin’s market cap was $14.099B. Litecoin had traded […]

Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies took a nosedive on Thursday morning in Asia, after a major sell-off in the previous session. Bitcoin dropped below a one-year low of $6,000, while some analysts attributed the plunge to spillover in U.S. stock markets. Bitcoin slid 12.91% to $5,697 at 11:02PM ET (03:02 GMT) on the Bitifinex exchange. Ethereum plummeted […]

Cryptocurrency prices were lower on Wednesday, even as International Monetary Fund director Christine Lagarde urged central banks to look into issuing digital currencies. Lagarde said central banks need to “fill the void left by the decline of cash.” “Various central banks around the world are seriously considering these ideas,” Lagarde said in Singapore on Wednesday. […]

Recently re-opened Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck has announced it has resumed NEM (XEM) crypto token trading after a restructuring of its platform by external “security experts,” South Korean news outlet FNNews reports Nov. 13. In January of this year, Coincheck suffered an industry record-breaking hack when $534 million worth of NEM was stolen from its […]

The government of Iran has completed the development of a national digital currency backed by a local rial. At the moment, a new asset is being approved by the Central Bank of the state. This was stated by the general director of the corporation Informatics Services (ISC) Seyed Abotaleb Najafi. According to him, the testing of payments, […]

Cryptocurrency prices were steady on Monday, while the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission fined a bitcoin trader for running a fraudulent virtual coin scheme. Bitcoin inched up 0.94% to $6,472.20 on the Bitfinex exchange, as of 9:03 AM ET (14:03 GMT). Cryptocurrencies overall were steady with the total coin market capitalization at $213 billion at […]

The Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand, Wissanu Krea-ngam suggested that governments should strengthen regulations on cryptocurrencies, according to the report of local news daily the Bangkok Post. As it was stated, Krea-ngam claimed that new measures must be introduced both domestically and internationally in order to keep up with new tactics and threats to consumer […]