BTC Opens at $16,570, ETH Joins Stablecoins in Recording Losses: First Monday of 2023

The first Monday of 2023 did not open with quite the sparkle for the crypto market. Bitcoin, on January 2, barely grew with a 0.13 percent gain. At the time of writing, BTC values hovered around the price point of $16,570 (roughly Rs. 13.7 lakh). The first ever cryptocurrency to have ever existed maintained values around the similar price point on both, national as well as international exchanges. The reason why BTC, along with a big bunch of altcoins, opened with losses today is because traders put a halt stamp on their activities during the holiday season.

“The price is attempting to move above the resistance at $16,600 (roughly Rs. 13.7 lakh). If buyers are able to maintain their momentum, the price of Bitcoin may rise above $16,700 (roughly Rs. 13.8 lakh) in the coming week,” Edul Patel, CEO and co-founder of Mudrex told Gadgets 360.

Ether reeled-in a loss of 0.05 percent on Monday, showed the crypto price tracker by Gadgets 360. ETH is currently trading at $1,195 (roughly Rs. 98,855), which is just a dollar short of what it was priced on December 30. Over the weekend, ETH failed to show any notable price changes.

“If Ethereum can close above the $1,200 (roughly Rs. 99,215) level, the next resistance level would be at $1,220 (roughly Rs. 1 lakh). For bulls to regain control, they will need to push the price above the $1,300 (roughly Rs. 1.07 lakh) level,” Patel noted.

Stablecoins such as Tether, USD Coin, Binance USD, and Ripple registered losses.

Both meme coins, Shiba Inu and Dogecoin also opened the new year with small but significant price dips.

Solana has been hit by dips, which intensified during the last week of 2022. At this point, SOL is trading at $9.97 (roughly Rs. 845).

In the last week of December, DeGods and Y00ts — the top two NFT projects based on the Solana blockchain, respectively migrated to the Ethereum and Polygon blockchains. The developers behind these projects said they did not see an impressive growth rate on Solana.

Meanwhile, Cardano, Polygon, Polkadot, and Litecoin emerged on the profit-making side of the crypto price chart.

Uniswap, Chainlink, Cosmos, Monero, and Stellar also reeled-in small gains.

On the first Monday of 2023, the overall crypto market grew by 0.60 percent, as per CoinMarketCap.

The current crypto market valuation stands at $798 billion (roughly Rs. 66,02,268 crore).

Web3 analysts and industry experts have predicted that the year of 2023 will turn out to be profitable for the NFT and metaverse sectors.


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BTC, ETH See Miniscule Profits, Losses Strike Stablecoins Tether, USD Coin

Bitcoin on Friday, December 30, opened trading with a small profit of 0.08 percent. At the time of writing, BTC prices on national and international exchanges, stand at $16,585 (roughly Rs. 13.7 lakhs). From its last all-time high of $68,000 recorded last November, the year of 2022 pushed Bitcoin down the price ladder very drastically. Now, on the second last day of the year 2022, BTC has marked a significantly low value. The crypto price charts reflected reds next to greens as crypto prices fluctuated big time for most coins.

Ether saw a minor gain of 0.79 percent as it stepped into the trade arena. ETH, as per Gadgets 360’s crypto price tracker, is currently priced $1,196 (roughly Rs. 99,020).

Like BTC, ETH also stooped dramatically low in terms of its value this year. Its last recorded all-time-high in November 2021, stood at around $4,890 (roughly Rs. 4.04 lakh).

Binance Coin, Polkadot, Litecoin, Uniswap, and Solana joined BTC and ETH in reeling-in minor gains.

Cosmos, Stellar, and Bitcoin SV also settled with small profits.

Both meme coins, Shiba Inu and Dogecoin also saw minor price hikes on the second-last day of 2022. While DOGE is priced $0.070 (roughly Rs. 5.80), SHIB price stands at $0.0000081 (roughly Rs. 0.000670).

It is noteworthy that, stablecoins pegged against the US dollar opened trade with losses today. These include Tether, USD Coin, Ripple, and Binance USD.

Other popular altcoins like Cardano, Polygon, Tron, Avalanche, and Wrapped Bitcoin also recorded price slashes.

The overall crypto market rose by 0.09 percent in the last 24 hours. As per CoinMarketCap, the global crypto market cap stands at $795.8 billion (roughly Rs. 65,87,835 crore).

Despite the ongoing crypto slump, industry players have not lost all hope.

Huobi crypto exchange for instance, has revealed its plans of soon bringing a card service, that would make fiat-to-crypto transactions efficient and just a tap away.

On the other hand, KuCoin Labs, the incubation arm of KuCoin crypto exchange has announced a special programme to help blockchain builders to create products and services in the metaverse, NFT, and the Gamefi sectors.


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Bitcoin, Most Cryptocurrencies Register Losses, Total Sector Valuation Also Drops

The festive cheer has failed to penetrate the crypto market as majority cryptocurrencies opened with losses on Friday, October 21. Less than three days before Diwali, Bitcoin opened with a loss of 1.01 percent in India. As per Gadgets 360’s crypto price tracker, BTC values currently stands at the price point of $19,063 (roughly Rs. 15.77 lakh) in India. Even on international exchanges, BTC could not manage to bring in profits. As reflected by Binance and CoinMarketCap, BTC values are hovering around the mark of $19,076 (roughly Rs. 15.78 lakh) with a loss of 0.30 percent.

Ether values also slipped by 0.38 on Friday. As per the Gadgets 360 crypto price tracker, ETH is trading at $1,287 (roughly Rs. 1.06 lakh).

Both top two cryptocurrencies last created their respective all-time highs (ATHs) on November 9 last year. While BTC’s last ATH was around $68,000 (roughly Rs. 56 lakh), ETH’s figure was $4,700 (roughly Rs. 3.47 lakh).

As per their current market movement, the chances of BTC and ETH even coming close to their previous ATHs seems like a far-away possibility.

Meanwhile, majority cryptocurrencies tailed meekly behind BTC and ETH to register losses today.

These include Tether, USD Coin, Binance Coin, Ripple, Cardano, and Solana.

Dogecoin and Shiba Inu also witnessed dips alongside Avalanche, Litecoin, Chainlink, as well as Cosmos.

“Monitoring US’ inflation and macroeconomic variables will be key to determining capital allocation for investors and correspondingly be an indication as to when the equity markets and by extension the crypto bottom hits in case it hasn’t already, as price action is still currently highly inversely correlated with the DXY (Dollar Strength Index),” the CoinDCX research team told Gadgets 360.

In the last 24 hours, the total valuation of the crypto sector slid down by 0.58 percent.

At this point, the total market cap of the crypto industry stands at $914.43 billion (roughly Rs. 75,66,574 crore). The valuation fell from its trillion-dollar mark in September.

Only a handful of cryptocurrencies managed to see gains today. These include Tron, Bitcoin Cash, Elrond, Iota, and Dash.


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Bitcoin Fails to Touch $20,000 Mark, Many Altcoins See Dips Ahead of Weekend

As October steps into its second weekend, the crypto market showed signs of volatility that remained prevalent throughout the week. Bitcoin opened with a minor gain of 1.88 percent on Friday, October 14. As per the crypto price tracker by Gadgets 360, BTC stuck to its months-old price point of $19,437 (roughly Rs. 15.90 lakh), failing to crawl over the $20,000 mark (roughly Rs. 16.46 lakh). On Binance and Coinbase, BTC garnered similar miniscule gains to maintain its value around $19,818 (roughly Rs. 16.30 lakh).

Ether, in the backdrop of daily market fluctuations, opened with losses on Friday. As per Gadgets 360’s crypto price tracker, ETH is trading at $1,294 (roughly Rs. 1.06 lakh) with a value dip of 0.15 percent.

With the top two cryptocurrencies having varied in their market movements, other altcoins were automatically divided into two groups — the ones that follow BTC’s trajectory and the ones that slipped down the ladder with ETH.

Polygon, Shiba Inu, Uniswap, Wrapped Bitcoin, Cosmos, Stellar, and Monero lined up with profits behind BTC.

On the other side, Tether, Binance USD, Ripple, Cardano, Solana, and Polkadot saw losses.

“The overall market cap plunged below $1 trillion (roughly Rs. 82,34,055 crore). BTC remained more resilient than ETH and other altcoins. BTC is down ~2 percent and trading just under $20,000 (roughly Rs. 16 lakh). The top 20 tokens are trading in the red with Cardano (ADA), Solana (SOL), and Binance Coin (BNB) slipping over 10 percent during the week,” the research team at Indian exchange CoinSwitch Kuber told Gadgets 360.

With a 3.08 percent rise over the last 24 hours, the global crypto market currently stands at the valuation of $942 billion (roughly Rs. 77,56,462 crore).

There are several factors that have dented the crypto markets in recent days. The inflation for US in September stood at 8.2 percent, a notch higher than street estimates of 8.1 percent, but lower than 8.3 percent in August. The Core Consumer Price Index (CPI) Inflation that excludes food and energy prices touched a 40-year high at 6.6 percent.

Meanwhile, Wall Street tumbled amidst fears of another possible Fed rate hike, but soon recouped the losses, on the hopes of bottoming out. Despite these ups and downs, crypto assets continue to stir interest among investors on a daily basis.

“CRE8, an Indian Rupee denominated Virtual Digital Asset (crypto) index was down 1.91 percent in the past seven days. BTC, ETH, BNB, Ripple (XRP), and ADA emerged as the top eight most traded coins among investors trading crypto assets in Indian Rupees. The Index value stood at Rs. 2627.48 at 8 AM, October 14, 2022,” the CoinSwitch team noted.


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BTC Grows, ETH Dips as Crypto Price Chart Reflects Mix of Greens and Reds

The cryptocurrency market is undergoing volatility in the backdrop of back-to-back hack attacks hitting the sector. Bitcoin on Tuesday, August 9, grew by 2.87 percent. As per Indian exchange CoinSwitch Kuber, BTC is currently trading at around $25,080 (roughly Rs. 20 lakh). The oldest cryptocurrency also saw minor hikes on international exchanges. As per Binance and Coinbase, BTC rates have spiked by around 2.50 percent to trade at about $23,861 (roughly Rs. 19 lakh).

Ether moved unconventionally and failed to grab gains following BTC’s price movement. With a loss of 3.40 percent, ETH prices are currently circling the mark of $1,722 (roughly Rs. 1.35 lakh).

On the crypto price charts, nearly equal number of altcoins followed BTC and ETH to reflect gains and losses respectively.

Tether, Ripple, Cardano, Solana, and Polkadot joined BTC and reeled-in gains.

USD Coin, Binance Coin, Binance USD, Dogecoin, and Avalanche saw losses alongside Ether.

The global crypto market cap currently stands at $1.13 trillion (roughly Rs. 89,53,272 crore), with a 1.96 percent overall increase from the last day, as per CoinMarketCap.

Meanwhile, Nischal Shetty, the co-founder of WazirX crypto exchange has taken to Twitter to promote the use of blockchain networks in order to maintain transparency in businesses.

Shetty’s comments come in the backdrop of WazirX’s ongoing feud with Binance. Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of Binance has recently claimed that the acquistion of WazirX, that was announced in November 2019, did not reach a point of completion.

Zhao is seemingly trying to disassociate Binance’s branding from WazirX now that the Indian exchange is facing investigation in India over alleged money laundering charges.

Meanwhile, scammers continue to riddle the cryptosphere and it has been pointed yet again out, this time by Hong Kong publications.

The nation that recently topped the list of the world’s most crypto-ready nations has observed an alarming 105 percent hike in crypto scams. In the first six months of this year alone, the crypto community of Hong Kong has collectively lost $50 million (roughly Rs. 400 crore) to cons.


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Bitcoin, Ether Rise Again Pulling Up Majority Altcoins, Stablecoins See Dips

Bitcoin opened with gains on Thursday, July 14, days after being burdened with losses. The oldest cryptocurrency opened trading at $20,993 (roughly Rs. 16.70 lakh) after gaining profits by 2.33 percent on Indian exchange CoinSwitch Kuber. Even bigger gains rained over Bitcoin on international exchanges. On Binance and Coinbase for instance, BTC grew by nearly 4.20 percent to trade at $20,286 (roughly Rs. 16 lakh). In the last 24 hours, Bitcoin’s overall value has risen by 3.97 percent, showing signs of recovery.

Ether also found itself on the green side of the price chart as it opened trading on Thursday. Spiking by two percent, ETH is currently trading at $1,151 (roughly Rs. 91,800), Gadgets 360’s crypto price tracker shows.

Among other cryptocurrencies that saw gains, Binance Coin, Ripple, Cardano, Solana, Polkadot, and Tron emerged on the list.

While Shiba Inu reeled-in profits, Dogecoin remained affected by losses.

Talking of losses, Thursday did not open with gains for stablecoins.

Tether, USD Coin, and Binance USD, all saw dips.

Litecoin, Stellar, and Monero also saw losses.

The current market cap of the crypto sector stands at $897 billion (roughly Rs. 71,60,501 crore), as per CoinMarketCap.

In the coming days, the Bitcoin network may encounter some snags because majority BTC mining farms in Texas, US have halted their operations owing to extreme heat conditions. The power supplier of the state has advised BCT miners to take a breather so that power supply in the region is not disrupted.

In other news, the US Treasury has opened gateway for public suggestions on crypto laws. The last date of submitting the suggestions has been decided as August 8.

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