Bitcoin Steady While Altcoins Take-Off: The Weekly Crypto Market Update

This week the market continued to stagnate, but we saw some promising signs in the altcoins field. While most of the attention is towards Bitcoin’s price and whether the support will hold, traders have also moved to altcoins where we saw a lot of interest during the week.

Bitcoin’s dominance declined since peaking at 72% and other cryptocurrencies finally managed to reclaim some grounds.

Despite the fact that during the past 3 months Bitcoin’s price has shuffled up, its current point is still respectable, compared to the beginning of the year when it was trading in the range of low $3,000s.

Meanwhile, it’s worth noting that big companies are abandoning Facebook’s Libra, including PayPal, Visa, and Mastercard. There are growing fears that the project won’t launch at all. However, Facebook has said that they will continue with their work so that Libra can see daylight and that there are no changes in their plans.

Overall, it was a positive week for altcoins which started to wake up from the crypto winter and it was a rather quiet one for Bitcoin.

Market Data

Market Cap: $226B

24-Hour Volume: $52.2M

BTC Dominance: 66.4%

BTC: $8,336

ETH: $184

XRP: $0.29

BTC Shorts (BFX): 8.7K BTC

BTC Longs (BFX): 25.3K BTC

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