๐ 30 Second Cryptocurrency Price Summary Current Bitcoin Price:ย $6,282 Bitcoin price has erased its gains from yesterday, as it retraces more than 2% back into the $6,200s. Top-20 altcoins remain quiet, as Ethereum and XRP stay almost unchanged. Chainlink is the largest gainer with a 5% rise, meanwhile Crypto.com Coin cools off with a 3.5% drop. Top Stories for April, 2020 ๐ฅ Shanghai Gas Group Co Ltd are furthering plans with VeChain to build an energy-as-a-service platform based on blockchain. The system will involve the management of logistics, energy trading and new financial products focused on the energy industry. The two companies had previously collaborated to improve processes behind liquified natural gas, in a pilot program named the Blockchain-Enabled LNG Solution. Five cryptocurrency exchanges have reported a significant surge in new user sign-ups during the month of March, despite the recent crash in cryptocurrency prices. Kraken reported an 83% increase in new users, while Paxful saw an increase of 100%. Other platforms observing increases have included Bitfinex, OKEx and Luno. The adoption of a law which would ban the use of cryptocurrency as payment in Russia has been postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The piece of legislation will bring a clearer definition to digital assets, but will prohibit their use as a means of payment. The bill will still allow cryptocurrency exchanges to operate and does not mention cryptocurrency mining. |