π 30 Second Cryptocurrency Price Summary Current Bitcoin Price: $40,783 Bitcoin price has continued to slide from recent highs, breaking back below the $41,000 mark to begin Friday. Top-20 altcoins have had mixed performance, as Ethereum falls 5%, BNB drops 3%, but Terra and Avalanche each gain 2%. Top Stories for March 4, 2022 π₯ Officials across the US and Europe have been voicing their concerns about Russia using cryptocurrency to evade sanctions, despite little to no evidence of it occurring. Major western publications including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and others have all recently run sensationalized headlines about the topic. The rhetoric has also been publicly shared by senator Elizabeth Warren and French finance minister, Bruno Le Maire. Although ruble-denominated crypto trading has seen a notable increase, this only equates to millions of dollars in trading volume β an insignificant quantity to represent real sanctions evasion. Shake Shack will begin offering Bitcoin as a reward to customers when they make purchases using the Cash App digital wallet. Customers who use the Cash App debit card will get 15% of their purchase back in Bitcoin. The company is looking to get to younger customers, testing to see if customers are interested in buying using crypto. The promotion will run until mid-March. Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, has released a crypto-themed song that went viral on Twitter, reaching 2.2 million views at the time of writing. The song attempts to explain crypto jargon to newcomers, using familiar terms such as "we're all gonna make it", "DYOR" and "HODL". Crypto-Twitter appears to be highly embarrassed at the musical attempt. |