Cryptocurrencies Market Recovered, Bitcoin, Reclaimed The $23,000 Mark
On Friday, the market for cryptocurrencies recovered, and the most valuable coin, Bitcoin, reclaimed the $23,000 mark.
The most popular cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, increased by 4.41% to trade at $23,614, up around 30% from its June low.
As investors become more confident in the U.S. Federal Reserve’s capacity to control decades-high inflation, bitcoin has been on the upward so far this week, following the stock market.
Contrarily, Ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market value, increased by more than 10.06 percent to 1,638 over the previous day, citing Coindesk statistics at 17:31 IST.
In addition to bitcoin, several well-known cryptocurrencies also increased. Dogecoin, the most popular meme coin, soared 3.68 percent to $0.070910 while Shiba Inu, the second-largest meme coin, increased by 5.34 percent to $0.000012.
In the past 24 hours, the market cap of all cryptocurrencies climbed by 4.28 percent, reaching $1.07 trillion. However, the overall amount of bitcoin trade fell by 12.53 percent to $78.15 billion.
According to CoinMarketCap statistics as of 17:04 IST, bitcoin’s market dominance as a percentage of the entire market cap is 41.95 percent, down 0.52 percent from the previous day.
In the meanwhile, according to Bloomberg, two Indian brothers and an Indian-American buddy who participated in the first-ever bitcoin insider trading operation and generated gains of over a million dollars have been prosecuted in the US.