Thursday, July 18 - following Bitcoin's price retaking $10,000 earlier today, top-20 cryptocurrencies have seen notable gains on the day, with only UNUS SED LEO casting a gloom on the prospects.
BTC is up 7.63% over the last 24 hours, and is trading at around $10,549 as of press time.
Having briefly dipped to as low as $9,385 during the day, BTC has rebounded and is apparently pushing to the $11,000 price point.
The second largest coin, Ether, began the day at around $215.39, subsequently reaching its intraday high of $227,36.
At press time, the major altcoin is trading at around $225,13, up 4.14% on the day.
Ripple has seen smaller gains of 1.73% to trade at around $0.323 at press time.
During the day, XRP slumped to its daily low of $0.307, but soon began to recover.
Stellar has also taken an upturn and is currently trading at around $0.088.
Today, Binance revealed that it unknowingly earned staking rewards of XLM in the amount of 9,500,000 XLM worth of extra XLM, and is going to share the gained XLM rewards to the entire community.
The total market cap of all cryptocurrencies is currently over $286 billion, while the daily trading volume is around $82.9 billion.
Major Coins in the Green, Bitcoin Hovers Over $10,000
Published on Jul 18, 2019
by Cointele | Published on Coinage
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