Bitcoin Maintains Above $20k; Dogecoin Rises After Elon Musk’s Tweet

21 Jun 2022

📈BTC | $20,464.40 (+$718.90, +3.64%)
📈ETH | $1,117.85 (+$56.55, +5.33%)
📈XRP | $0.322309 (+$0.004317, +1.36%)
📈LTC | $52.52 (+$0.573807, +1.10%)

📈Total Crypto Market Cap: The global crypto market cap is $902.37B (+3.59%)

🏋️Bitcoin (BTC) was able to hold its price level above the $20,000 level on Monday after regaining over the weekend amidst a continuous barrage of negative economic, geopolitical and industry news. BTC recently traded flat at $20,400, up by 3%. Ether traded slightly over the $1,100 position it reclaimed late Sunday, up by 5%. Other altcoins also rose , with LTC and XRP increasing by 1 percentage point each.

📱After Elon Musk tweeted that he would “keep supporting dogecoin,” DOGE increased from 5 cents to as much as 6.3 cents in early trading hours on Monday. Since then, when traders took profits on their bets, it has fallen to 5.7 cents at the time of writing. Tesla (TSLA) takes DOGE as payment on its online store, and Musk has previously said he was “working with Dogecoin developers” to make it more effective.

💰The highly prized non-fungible token (NFT) (CryptoPunk #5364) that Ukraine received as a gift in early March for its fundraising effort in its conflict with Russia has been sold. At the time of writing, the NFT was sold to an unidentified buyer for 90 ETH, or around $100,000 er. Prior to the price of ETH sharply declining in early March, The NFT’s estimated value was up to $260,000.


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