๐ 30 Second Cryptocurrency Price Summary Current Bitcoin Price:ย $6,832 Bitcoin price has fallen over 3% today, losing support at $7,000 and dropping into the $6,800s. Top-20 altcoins have also dropped in value, with Ethereum losing almost 5%, XRP losing 3%, and Dash faring the worst with a 6% fall. Top Stories for April 21, 2020 ๐ฅ The Ethereum 2.0 testnet had its genesis block mined on April 18, and has already reached almost 20,000 validators. Validators are the equivalent of miners in the networks new proof-of-stake consensus mechanism. At least 32 ETH must be staked to become a validator on the new network, which is expected to launch its mainnet in July of this year. A Chinese-based EOS wallet called EOS Ecosystem has reportedly shut down the platform and disappeared with $52 million worth of user funds. Investors noticed that they were unable to access funds in their EOS Ecosystem wallets as early as Monday, and it appears that most of the funds have been removed from the service's account. Almost all of the $25 million worth of funds stolen in an exploit of dForce's decentralized lending protocol Lendf.me have been returned. The hacker began to return the stolen funds yesterday, following negotiations with the dForce team. The reason for returning the tokens is not yet known. |