After a strong Saturday, the global market has dropped over 10%. Bitcoin (BTC) is down 8% to US$11,500, and a over 75% of the top 100 coins have also lost Bitcoin value in the past 24 hours. However, there are a handful of strong contenders that have overcome this dip. Among these are Waltonchain (WTC) and VeChain (VEN). VEN is up 2% in USD, currently trading just above $US8.00, with a BTC value of just under 70k sats. WTC is down a slight 2% in USD, and trading around US$29.00. Today’s performance of both coins is symbolic of their sizablePowered by WPeMatico
Disclaimer: this is a humor piece and should be interpreted as such. With every major market move, both up and down, some individuals inevitably buy the top or sell the bottom. Past movements suggest that certain all-powerful investors are responsible for market movements, as their trades and decisions lead to opposite, powerful reactions from the market. On January 17, as Bitcoin approached its bottom of US$9,500, a martyr for the greater cryptocurrency community sacrificed his own success for the good of the market. /u/NekroJakub is one such individual with the power to move markets. That morning, Jakub moved fiat funds to his exchange
The first few days of 2018 have shown a booming start of the year for cryptocurrency, with the total market value pushing new all-time highs and many coins seeing huge bull trends. Among these, Stellar Lumens (XLM) is emerging as perhaps the biggest winner. Since December 31, Stellar Lumens has already increased closed to 300%, from a price of US$0.31 to US$0.88. XLM has ascended to the sixth highest valued cryptocurrency, with a total market cap of US$15.7 billion. Stellar is now worth more than NEM and LTC, valued at US$15.2 billion and US$13.3 billion, respectively. Just under a month