📈 30 Second Cryptocurrency Price Summary Current Bitcoin Price: $10,187 Over the last 24 hours the cryptocurrency has continued to trend upwards by around 1%. Bitcoin happens to be down 0.5%, while Ethereum is up 1.5% and XRP is up a further 8.5%. Among the top-20, both Stellar and IOTA are posting impressive gains: 24% and 13% respectively. Top Stories for September 18, 2019 🔥 IOTA is a popular cryptocurrency that's based on its own form of distributed ledger technology (DLT) known as the Tangle. This lightweight innovation has lead to several drawbacks, one of which has been a lack of permanent transaction history. Today, IOTA unveiled their "permanode" solution, which allows users to set up network nodes that can host the currency's entire history of transactions. VeChain is a cryptocurrency project that has made a name for itself with numerous industry partnerships, already powering food and drink traceability in multiple countries. According to recent tweets by Sunny Lu, the CEO of VeChain, the project is set to collaborate with Deloitte, a partnership which will bring blockchain to over 900,000 individuals and more than 1,000 enterprise customers. Europe is a relatively well-developed continent and a major market for most products and services. While European countries have been relatively slow on blockchain adoption, there is some progress. Following a recent survey of 15,000 Europeans by ING Bank, it's estimated that around 32% of Europeans believe cryptocurrency is the "future." More than a quarter are open to receiving cryptocurrency-related products. | 
