📈 30 Second Cryptocurrency Price Summary Current Bitcoin Price: $11,730 Bitcoin has had a bullish weekend, with price rallying from the $11,400 range to over $11,700 to start the week today. Top-20 altcoins had a strong weekend of price action too, which has tapered off a little over the last 24 hours. Ethereum is up 6% today, XRP 1%, and Litecoin is up 4%. Top Stories for August 31, 2020 🔥 A memorandum from the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has stated that cryptocurrency earned from "microtasks" is still taxable. Microtasks are small efforts made by people in exchange for a reward or payment, such as leaving app reviews or processing data. The IRS claims that such microtask rewards and payments of as little as $1 in cryptocurrency will be taxed. Decentralized exchange Uniswap surpassed Coinbase in 24-hour trading volume yesterday, in a DeFi-first milestone. Uniswap's volume over the 24-hour period was $426 million, almost $80 million more than Coinbase's $348 million for the same day. Uniswap secured $11 million in funding earlier this month to fund the development of version 3.0 of it's protocol. It seems like the DeFi meme-coin craze isn't over - "SushiSwap", a clone of the Uniswap decentralized exchange, has just reached $700 million total value locked (TVL) within 3 days of launch. SushiSwap has its very own governance token - SUSHI - which can be used to vote for updates and changes to the platform. | 