Today, the flagship cryptocurrency rate reached a new maximum for 2019 – the price of Bitcoin exceeded $ 8,900, although before that fluctuations in the range of 10% -20% were observed.
The BTC movement to new highs started after May 17, the cryptocurrency exchange rate sank to $ 6,600, after which it rose to $ 7,300 on the same day. Since then, the value of BTC has increased by 22% – last night the price rose above the level of $ 8,500, after which it grew by more than $ 300.
It is worth noting that the Bitcoin price movement was accompanied by an impressive increase in trading volume over the past 24 hours. We can say that this figure increased by $ 3.1 billion. Meanwhile, the Altcoins also show growth, in particular Ethereum, EOS, Ripple, Litecoin. Their rate has grown by more than 10%.
In addition, the total market capitalization increased to $ 268.1 billion, which is the maximum, if we consider the period from August 3 last year. The market capitalization of large altcoins increased by $ 6 billion. This indicates the continuing financing of the crypto-industry, as well as active investing in cryptocurrency.
