๐ 30 Second Cryptocurrency Price Summary Current Bitcoin Price: $34,081 Bitcoin price hit yet another all-time high today of almost $36,000, before bouncing back a couple of thousand dollars to begin Wednesday. Top-20 altcoins are a sea of green once again, as Ethereum gains another 7%, Litecoin gains almost 5%, and Stellar steals the show with a massive 63% rise. Top Stories for January 6, 2021 ๐ฅ Cryptocurrency custody company BitGo has launched "wrapped" Bitcoin and Ether tokens on the TRON blockchain. Nearly 100 TRON-based WBTC tokens have been minted already, by Alameda Research and CoinList. BitGo is already well-known for its Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) token on the Ethereum blockchain, which enables Bitcoin to be used in decentralized application as an ERC-20 token. Grayscale's Ethereum Trust has seen its ETHE shares fall in value by 50% over the last two weeks, despite a monster rally of its underlying asset, Ethereum (ETH). The crash has been attributed to an arbitrage strategy, due to ETHE shares trading at a large premium to the actual price of the underlying ETH. A UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ban on cryptocurrency derivatives trading products will go into effect today, as the authority believes it will save users ยฃ53 million in harm. The ban was announced in October of last year, drawing strong criticism from the wider cryptocurrency community. |