On Friday, February, 22nd, most of altcoins are traded in the red because the traders switched to the wait-it-out technique. Ripple’s XRP and Stellar’s XLM are leading in terms of price decrease, they cheapened by more than 3% to $0,318 and $0,08 over the last 24 hours. Bitcoin is also decreasing in the end of the week, but it still remains at the level of $3900, this allows the crypto currency to get a chance to exceed $4000. Up to date, BTC rate decreased by 0,5% to $3956, its capitalization is a little more than $69,443 billion. Ethereum and Litecoin cheapened by 2% and now is traded at the level of $145,6 and $48,9. Otherwise, LTC showed dramatic growth in the beginning of the week, it has even exceeded $52. Some traders expected that it will increase above $60, however, it suddenly dropped to $48. ETH has also been growing in anticipation of the hardfork planned to take place in the end of the current month. Its trading volume also increased to a-year-to-trade-maximum, the coin price exceeded $150. The analysts believe that the crypto currencies will see a correction for several days. After that, the coin will increase again. |
