📈 30 Second Cryptocurrency Price Summary Current Bitcoin Price: $8,166 Bitcoin has dropped 2% in the last 24 hours, stabilizing around the $8,100-$8,200 range. Altcoins have also seen small losses, with Ethereum down 2%, and Ripple down almost 1%. Tron and EOS have taken some of the biggest hits of the day, both being down around 5%. Top Stories for October 16, 2019 🔥 According to RBC Capital Markets Analysts, The People's Bank of China has sped up its development of a central bank digital currency. The motivation is said to have come from the stifled efforts of Facebook's Libra project, which may better position China's cryptocurrency to become the default digital currency in emerging economies. eToro has launched a new financial instrument called "TheTIE-LongOnly CopyPortoflio", which creates a crypto portfolio using Twitter sentiment. The protfolio is a collaboration between eToro and data analysis firm, The TIE , who source around 850 million tweets a day from Social Markets Analytics. Aliant Payments announced today that part of its employees'compensation packages will be paid in Bitcoin and Litecoin. Aliant Payments is a major provider of payment processing and merchant services in the USA. | 