📈 30 Second Cryptocurrency Price Summary Current Bitcoin Price: $19,215 Bitcoin price has traded within a $1,000 range over the weekend, touching as low as the $18,500s before once again reclaiming the $19,000 mark. Top-20 altcoins look stable over the last 24 hours, as Ethereum moves less than 1%, XRP gains a little over 1%, and Monero outperforms the rest with an 8% gain. Top Stories for December 7, 2020 🔥 Business intelligence company Microstrategy has disclosed another significant Bitcoin purchase, with a $50M purchase at an average price of $19,427 per coin. The purchase brings Microstrategy's total Bitcoin holdings to 40,824 BTC, currently worth around $766.6 million. The announcement was made post-purchase on Friday, by CEO Michael Saylor. Hong Kong's central banking institution, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, is reportedly in talks with the People's Bank of China (PBoC) regarding cross-border payments with the new digital yuan. A pilot program is on the cards, which is expected to go smoothly given the renminbi already having a presence in the country. According to the PBoC, the digital yuan - having the same status - will be easily substituted-in. Scalabilty-focused blockchain Solana has experienced a 6-hour network outage right before the weekend, prompting a mixture of support and criticism from the community. 200 Solana validators - 80% of the network - had to participate in a restart process in order to solve the issue, after which the blockchain began to run smoothly again. | 