World’s largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin was trading over 2% lower today. The price of Bitcoin fell 2.16% to $66,469 on Coinmarketcap. Market cap of the cryptocurrency reached $1,259.07 billion.
Currently, the global crypto market cap stands at $2.90 trillion, a decrease of 1.16%. Other cryptocurrencies were trading on a mixed note today.
Ethereum lost 1.83% to $4,726 and Dogecoin was trading 2.46% lower at $0.2735. However, digital token Stellar climbed 5.87% to $0.407 and Litecoin zoomed 8.76% to $269.63. XRP declined 0.97% to $1.24 and Uniswap was trading 0.53% lower at $26.52.
Of late, crypto prices have risen on the back of comments from billionaire Elon Musk and Ark Investment Management LLC’s Cathie Wood.
In late July, Elon Musk said Tesla was “most likely” to start accepting bitcoin as payment again. The comment helped the cryptocurrency race past the $30,000 level.
The electric carmaker said in May that it would no longer accept the cryptocurrency for purchases. It’s been a wild ride for bitcoin the last three years.
The digital currency made its big Wall Street debut in December 2017, when the major futures exchanges rolled out Bitcoin futures. The attention drove Bitcoin to roughly $19,300, a then-unheard of price for the currency.
