Bitcoin Breaks 4-Day Winning Streak on Sunday; Russia Bans All Digital Payment

18 Jul 2022

📈BTC | $21,171.61 (+$9.95, +0.05%)
📈ETH | $1,396.45 (+$53.29, +3.97%)
📈XRP | $0.358841 (+$0.008543, +2.44%)
📈LTC | $57.75 (+$2.86, 5.21%)

📈Total Crypto Market Cap: The global crypto market cap is $972.33B (+0.85%)

👎On Sunday, Bitcoin saw its 4-day winning streak end as it fell under $21,000. Recently, Bitcoin was flat over the past 24 hours, trading at around $21,100. Industry analysts anticipate that the price of bitcoin will remain between $18,000 and $22,000 until investors have a good grasp of whether central banks can tame inflation without going into recession.

🙅‍♂️According to a policy change on Thursday, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has approved a law barring digital payments throughout the country. The legislation forbids the use of utility tokens and digital securities as a form of payment in Russia for goods, services, and products.

⚡️According to an investigation by 6 US lawmakers, the energy and emissions impacts of the crypto mining business in the US are anticipated to be significant, with the Top 7 mining firms having enough energy capacity to power all the homes in Houston. This raises further concerns as miners plan to raise capacity by approximately 230%.


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