Investing.com - Bitcoin was trading at $4,653.8 by 12:38 (17:38 GMT) on the Investing.com Index on Tuesday, up 10.19% on the day. It was the largest one-day percentage gain since Monday, November 19, 2018.
The move upwards pushed Bitcoin's market cap up to $80.9B, or 53.39% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. At its highest, Bitcoin's market cap was $241.2B.
Bitcoin had traded in a range of $4,391.9 to $5,013.4 in the previous twenty-four hours.
Over the past seven days, Bitcoin has seen a drop in value, as it lost 26.92%. The volume of Bitcoin traded in the twenty-four hours to time of writing was $8.4B or 34.31% of the total volume of all cryptocurrencies. It has traded in a range of $4,391.9272 to $6,453.2700 in the past 7 days.
At its current price, Bitcoin is still down 76.58% from its all-time high of $19,870.62 set on Sunday, December 17, 2017.
Elsewhere in cryptocurrency trading
XRP was last at $0.45434 on the Investing.com Index, down 9.47% on the day.
Ethereum was trading at $141.00 on the Investing.com Index, a loss of 9.96%.
XRP's market cap was last at $18.1B or 11.93% of the total cryptocurrency market cap, while Ethereum's market cap totaled $14.5B or 9.58% of the total cryptocurrency market value.