📈 30 Second Cryptocurrency Price Summary Current Bitcoin Price: $9,749 Bitcoin price retested the $10,000 mark over the weekend, failing to break through resistance, once again settling in the high $9,000s. Top-20 altcoins may have reached a turning point, as Ethereum falls 1%, XRP almost 3%, and Tezos falling almost 7% today. Top Stories for February 24, 2020 🔥 Fidelity International has purchased a 5.6% stake worth over US$14 million, in a Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency platform for professional investors. The platform, BC Group, has sold a total of US$36 million worth of shares to large investors since January, despite a 7.6% fall in share prices this year. A new law in the European Union - The Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive - will soon come into effect, and treat cryptocurrency businesses the same as any other. Banks will no longer be able to blanket-ban cryptocurrency-related companies, now being required to provide full justification for any refusal of services, on a case-by-case basis. During an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, Vitalik Buterin revealed some of the details of the plans for the launch of Ethereum 2.0 this year. The roll-out will begin with "Phase 0", in which Ethereum 2.0 will exists as an independent proof-of-stake (PoS) network. Phase 1 will follow, enabling sharding via 64 sidechains. Eventually, once the network becomes strong enough, the platform will be merged with Ethereum 1.0. | 