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Market Cap: $64.14B

Circulating Supply: BTC17.49M

Max Supply: BTC21.00M

Vol (24H): $5.28B

Day's Range: 3,592.0 - 3,627.9

Chg (7D): -0.38%

Crypto Prices Rise as Thailand Stock Exchange Eyes Nationwide Digital Asset By Investing.com - 52 minutes ago

Investing.com - Bitcoin and other major digital coin prices made small gains on Friday in Asia following news that Thailand ’s stock exchange is keen on developing a...

Founder of Ethereum and ConsenSys Joe Lubin Joins Board of Directors of Crypto Startup ErisX By CoinTelegraph UK - 4 hours ago

Founder of blockchain tech company ConsenSys Joseph Lubin has been appointed to the board of directors of cryptocurrency startup ErisX. The news was revealed in an...

Crypto Market Update: EOS, Bitcoin Cash, Tron (TRX), IOTA Price Analysis

By Altcointoday - 11 minutes ago

Crypto Market Update: EOS, Bitcoin Cash, Tron (TRX), IOTA Price Analysis The total crypto market cap broke a major resistance near the $117.00B level. EOS price broke the $2.50...

Winklevoss Capital: Investors Are ‘Thoughtfully Dipping their Toes into Crypto,’ Not Taking the Plunge By CoinTelegraph UK - 6 hours ago

Sterling Witzke, partner at the Winklevoss twins’ family office Winklevoss Capital, says she doesn’t think 2019 will be the watershed year for institutional...

18 Months Away? Latest Lightning Network Study Calls System a ‘Small Central Clique’

By Bitcoin.com - 2 hours ago

The Lightning Network has been touted as the solution to the Bitcoin Core (BTC) network’s scalability problem for years now. Over the last few months, the Lightning Network has...

Coinstar Machines in Select US States Now Sell BTC Vouchers

By Bitcoin.com - 7 hours ago

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VanEck to Nasdaq: Bitcoin Market Structure Expected to Improve in 2019

By Altcointoday - 7 hours ago

VanEck to Nasdaq: Bitcoin Market Structure Expected to Improve in 2019 Bitcoin and the rest of the cryptocurrency market will grow slowly and steadily in 2019, Gabor Gurbacs told...

Exploring The Upside to 2018’s Bitcoin Trading Losses for Americans

By Themerkle - 8 hours ago

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What is eToro? Beginner’s Guide To The Social Trading Platform

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South Africa Wants to Mandate Registration of Crypto Service Providers

By Bitcoin.com - 9 hours ago

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BRD Wallet Expands Crypto User Access Across Europe With Coinify Partnership

By Bitcoin Magazine - 9 hours ago

Coinify, a European-based financial platform that provides a wallet, trading and payment processing solution, has announced that they are integrating BRD Wallet into their...

BitPay Sets New Company Records, in Spite of Crypto Bear Markets

By Bitcoin Magazine - 10 hours ago

Blockchain payment platform BitPay has announced that 2018 has been their most profitable year, having “processed over a $1 Billion again in payments and set a new record for...

Cryptos Fall as Ethereum Delays Spark Security Concerns By Investing.com - 16 hours ago

Investing.com - Cryptocurrency prices were lower on Thursday, as news of a delay in a planned hard fork in Ethereum due to security concerns spooked investors. The hard fork,...

Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC Cap Up $700 million From $3,700 Support

By Altcointoday - 11 hours ago

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Ripple Adoption: The Largest Payment Across RippleNet That Made by Mercury-FX (From UK to Mexico)

By CryptoPotato - 11 hours ago

TL:DR Mercury FX announced that they had made their largest payments using XRP on RippleNet (£3,521.67 or $4,552.41). Ripple continue to display real-world use cases in addition to...

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can someone recommend me a good bitcoin exchange to invest in Canada, thanks.

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Nistha Investment Jan 01, 2019 8:19

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Anthony Gforce Dec 19, 2018 17:33

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so BTCUSD swings 3700 to 3200...retested 3700 and now will slowly drift lower breaking 3000 and heading to 2300..2200 level. do not get caught up in this headfake.

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Shaddi Ayache Dec 19, 2018 17:33

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200 m a is just about toppn.. stopping our bulls

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Johnny Thordarson Dec 16, 2018 3:26

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Bitcoin suck

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Nistha Investment Dec 14, 2018 4:36

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Anthony Gforce Dec 07, 2018 16:07

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the trading you are witnessing here is a BOT...not human triggered. there are those that get swipped up in the trade but it is a computer programme in command behind the scene. BTC will be under 500 next year.

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Tim Coleman Dec 05, 2018 15:13

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*You're*

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Luppa Bazooka Dec 04, 2018 9:58

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Come at me no coiners

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Shaddi Ayache Nov 30, 2018 17:15

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250k 2022

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Rusty Staub Nov 29, 2018 10:46

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Told anyone who would listen. BIGGEST BUBBLE EVER. WARREN BUFFEFT EVEN CALLED RAT POISON. WASH IT DOWN WITH HUBRIS.

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Luppa Bazooka Nov 29, 2018 10:46

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Your an idiot

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Tim Coleman Nov 29, 2018 10:46

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network strength my friend

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wade kettell Nov 23, 2018 10:46

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Your moms

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u mean everyone going to be living with your mom when this shit goes to zero...best prediction every. i agree.

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Anthony Gforce Nov 22, 2018 13:05

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next push down brings us to 3000 usd. those holding the bag.....painful to watch but inevitable madness of the few. every decade has its tulip fever moment.

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Matthew ONeill Nov 20, 2018 13:48

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Cant believe people invested into this garbage. feel bad for the people who held above 5k thinking it's going to go back up

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curious how many homes/lives ruined by clypto-crypto? best scam in modern history.

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Well I believe all concurrency are sudden dead when countries push out their own cryptocurrency based on country national bank. A lot of countries are trying to do it. So de-centralized method finally come back to centralized

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Bitcoin...is a safety deposit box for the storage of potential digital wealth?? One minute is value is 20K and now it trading below 6k...Essentially you are investing in a wealth illusion. Converting physical paper money into a digital form called xyz....and hoping its value goes up because others will follow suit. A case of supply demand. ?? wow...This is irrational to say the least. Also, why would you allow the trading of a few 100k bitcoins traded daily between friends lets say (its all annonymous right?) Dictate price change for currently 17MM float? Bitcoin has no home, has no face, has no true market reference value, why would it have a future. Im truly amazed with the irrational shelf life or should I say half-life cycle of the digital ether. Don't get swept up in this craze. When we all know true value is 0.00.

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If you don’t know what you are doing then you are right but is it that case with smart investors?

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Hard to predict. Bitcoin is now mainstream and getting harder to mine. 21m max coins. 17m already mined. Market economics point towards huge reversal. Could happen anytime. My guess is it goes back up to 20k this time. Might hit 50k in the next 5 years.

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I 2nd

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Anthony Gforce Jun 26, 2018 14:24

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This BTC price projected move is strictly chart based. The Monoply of funny money is headed down to $3000.00 by end of 2018. And ultimately a 0.00 sum valuation similar to other extremes witnessed before in speculative markets. I wont go as far as calling it a scam but a financially flawed project built on hype and black market forces.

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