Investing.com - Bitcoin was trading at $7,421.4 by 14:22 (18:22 GMT) on the Investing.com Index on Tuesday, up 10.02% on the day. It was the largest one-day percentage gain since Tuesday, July 17, 2018.
The move upwards pushed Bitcoin's market cap up to $126.17B, or 43.06% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. At its highest, Bitcoin's market cap was $241.15B.
Bitcoin had traded in a range of $6,666.0 to $7,421.4 in the previous twenty-four hours.
Over the past seven days, Bitcoin has seen a rise in value, as it gained 15.05%. The volume of Bitcoin traded in the twenty-four hours to time of writing was 5.32B or 32.70% of the total volume of all cryptocurrencies. It has traded in a range of $6.09K to $7.44K in the past 7 days.
At its current price, Bitcoin is still down 62.65% from its all-time high of $19,870.62 set on Sunday, December 17, 2017.
Elsewhere in cryptocurrency trading
Ethereum was last at $511.40 on the Investing.com Index, up 6.34% on the day.
Ripple was trading at $0.51418 on the Investing.com Index, a gain of 8.32%.
Ethereum’s market cap was last at $51.26B or 17.49% of the total cryptocurrency market cap, while Ripple’s market cap totaled $19.97B or 6.81% of the total cryptocurrency market value.