Crypto
Cryptocurrency Price Today: Bitcoin Touches $64,000 For The First Time Since November 2021
Bitcoin (BTC), the oldest and most valued cryptocurrency in the world, briefly touched the $64,000 mark for the first time since November 2021, before settling down at around $62,500 early Thursday. The excitement among investors around BTC exchange-traded funds (ETF), which saw a daily trading volume of over $7.7 billion, is driving the latest rally. Other top coins, including the likes of — Ethereum (ETH), Dogecoin (DOGE), Solana (SOL), Ripple (XRP), and Litecoin (LTC) — saw notable gains across the board. Memecoin BONK emerged to be the biggest gainer of the lot, with a 24-hour jump of over 56 percent. Bitget Token (BGB) became the biggest loser, with a 24-hour dip of nearly 6 percent.
The global crypto market cap stood at $2.29 trillion at the time of writing, registering a 24-hour gain of 6.42 percent.
Bitcoin (BTC) Price Today
Bitcoin price stood at $62,538.10, registering a 24-hour gain of 9.37 percent, as per CoinMarketCap. According to Indian exchange WazirX, BTC price stood at Rs 54 lakh.
Ethereum (ETH) Price Today
ETH price stood at $3,268.95 marking a 24-hour gain of 1.20 percent at the time of writing. As per WazirX, Ethereum price in India stood at Rs 2.99 lakh.
Dogecoin (DOGE) Price Today
DOGE registered a 24-hour jump of 5.41 percent, as per CoinMarketCap data, currently priced at $0.09517. As per WazirX, Dogecoin price in India stood at Rs 10.99.
Litecoin (LTC) Price Today
Litecoin saw a 24-hour dip of 0.83 percent. At the time of writing, it was trading at $74.32. LTC price in India stood at Rs 6,999,79.
Ripple (XRP) Price Today
XRP price stood at $0.5816, seeing a 24-hour jump of 4.61 percent. As per WazirX, Ripple price stood at Rs 51.
Solana (SOL) Price Today
Solana price stood at $122.69, marking a 24-hour dip of 1.05 percent. As per WazirX, SOL price in India stood at Rs 9,991.
Top Crypto Gainers Today (February 29)
As per CoinMarketCap data, here are the top five crypto gainers over the past 24 hours:
Bonk (BONK)
Price: $0.00002142
24-hour gain: 56.47 percent
JasmyCoin (JASMY)
Price: $0.02259
24-hour gain: 38.69 percent
Dogecoin (DOGE)
Price: $0.1253
24-hour gain: 31.29 percent
Shiba Inu (SHIB)
Price: $0.00001325
24-hour gain: 22.18 percent
Aptos (APT)
Price: $12.32
24-hour gain: 22.14 percent
Top Crypto Losers Today (February 29)
As per CoinMarketCap data, here are the top five crypto losers over the past 24 hours:
Bitget Token (BGB)
Price: $0.9495
24-hour loss: 5.35 percent
ApeCoin (APE)
Price: $1.90
24-hour loss: 4.87 percent
Pyth Network (PYTH)
Price: $0.6594
24-hour loss: 4.83 percent
Dymension (DYM)
Price: $6.04
24-hour loss: 4.36 percent
Theta Network (THETA)
Price: $1.90
24-hour loss: 4.25 percent
What Crypto Exchanges Are Saying About Current Market Scenario
Mudrex co-founder and CEO Edul Patel told ABP Live, “Bitcoin climbed above the $63,000 level in the past 24 hours gaining 7%. This surge is attributed to the ten spot Bitcoin ETFs in the US registering a new daily record by surpassing the $7.7 billion trading volume as retail investors jump on crypto rally. BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF traded $3.3 billion on Wednesday, twice as much as its previous volume record. Bitcoin surged over 50% on a year-to-date surpassing the $60,000 threshold level for the first time since Nov 2021. Currently, Bitcoin is trading at the $61,000 level and is eyeing $65,000. If this momentum continues, it is likely that Bitcoin will beat its previous all-time high soon.”
CoinSwitch Markets Desk noted, “In the last 24 hours, unprecedented volumes were seen in Bitcoin spot ETFs with a total of $7.5 billion being traded, doubling the previous record as BTC hit an all-time high in the Indian markets. Bitcoin is now up by more than 44% in February which is the highest monthly move since December 2020. All Indian investors who had previously invested in Bitcoin are now in a profitable position with the market sentiment slowly moving towards the ‘extreme greed’ category. A glimpse of what might happen if you are too late was visible yesterday. After BTC reached $64k, there was a sudden dip due to sudden profit booking and BTC’s price fell below $59k within minutes, causing close to $200 million worth of liquidations within just one hour. Simultaneously, the world’s largest fiat-based exchange Coinbase went down for a bit.”
Rajagopal Menon, Vice President, WazirX, said, “Bitcoin’s volatile ride saw a sudden 7% plunge from its $64,000 peak, causing chaos for leveraged traders. After briefly soaring above $60,000 for the first time since November 2021, BTC dropped to $59,400, rebounding to $61,587. The major cryptos, including ETH, SOL, XRP, ADA, DOGE, and AVAX, also faced 4% to 9% declines within an hour. The market turmoil led to $700 million in liquidations, marking the most significant wipe-out since last August. Despite the crypto carnage, spot bitcoin ETFs, notably BlackRock’s IBIT, experienced record-breaking volumes, reaching $3.3 billion.”
Sathvik Vishwanath, CEO and co-founder of Unocoin, said, “Bitcoin’s bullish trajectory extends to its performance against the Indian Rupee (INR), with key resistance levels identified at $61,544, $64,848, and $68,242, mirroring its USD counterpart. Notably, the INR’s previous ATH is also surpassed, indicating broader market strength. Support levels at $54,425, $52,597, and $47,572 offer stability against pullbacks, while the RSI at 85 suggests heightened buying pressure, warranting caution for potential corrections. The formation of the “three white soldiers” candlestick pattern and the INR’s upward trendline support reinforce bullish sentiment, augmented by the 50-day EMA at $47,818. Breaking resistance at $61,500 could signal continued bullish momentum, emphasizing careful monitoring amid potential fluctuations despite overall positive market sentiment.”
Shivam Thakral, CEO of BuyUcoin, said, “Bitcoin has gained more than 10% in a day, briefly touching $64,000 for the first time since November 2021. The cryptocurrency price is one step closer to its all-time high as Bitcoin ETFs broke their trading volume record with a huge day at $7.69 billion. Blackrock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust, IBIT, broke its own trading volume records at $3.3 billion. Ethereum hasn’t matched the pace of Bitcoin but is steadily rallying, crossing $3,400. It may be possible to see a new all-time high in Bitcoin before halving this year.”
CoinDCX Research Team told ABP Live, “BTC surged to $64,000, nearing its all-time high, while ETH reached $3,400, marking new highs for the year. This rally is driven by historical trends before halving events, strong inflows into BTC spot ETFs, and support from major institutions. Following its ascent to $64,000, BTC experienced a rapid drop to $59,000, triggering high-leverage liquidations on both sides. It has since stabilized above $61,500. This volatile movement led to liquidations in altcoins as well. BTC’s stability is crucial for altcoins to regain momentum. The next key levels for BTC are $65,000-$66,000, followed by its all-time high at $69,000. Despite attempting to breach the $3,500 level, ETH underperformed BTC as the ETH/BTC pair weakened. Currently, ETH is holding slightly above $3,400.”
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Rumors are swirling about Venezuela holding $60 billion in Bitcoin—but crypto experts are skeptical | Fortune
Following the United States’ capture of Nicolás Maduro over the weekend, a report came out claiming that Venezuela had $60 billion stored in Bitcoin—leading to speculation that the U.S. could lay claim to cryptocurrency as well as oil. Despite numerous reports of the huge Venezuelan Bitcoin stash, however, a crypto forensic firm is skeptical of the claims.
The news of Venezuela’s Bitcoin holding began to bubble up last Saturday, the same day that Maduro was ousted. The digital publication Project Brazen reported that his regime could control $60 billion in the original cryptocurrency—but offered little in the way of proof.
“The article does not mention any addresses as a starting point, making it difficult to verify any of these speculated claims,” said Aurelie Barthere, principal research analyst at Nansen, about Project Brazen’s report.
Barthere is not the first person to express skepticism about the country’s purported crypto treasure trove. Mauricio di Bartolomeo, the Venezuelan co-founder of the financial services company Ledn, told Fortune on Wednesday that the level of the country’s corruption makes the figure hard to believe. He expanded his argument in an opinion piece he wrote for Coindesk.
Estimates of Venezuela’s crypto holdings vary wildly. Bitcointreasuries.net estimates that the country has $22 million worth of Bitcoin. That figure would make Venezuela the government entity with the ninth-most money tied up in the original cryptocurrency, just behind North Korea.
While the exact size of Venezuela’s Bitcoin wealth is unclear, the country has long been a player in crypto. Maduro introduced a token called the Petro in 2018, which was shuttered six years later. Its citizens have also turned to stablecoins as a way to fight their currency’s hyperinflation.
Trump has said that he will “run” Venezuela, and some have speculated that includes seizing the country’s Bitcoin holdings. Andrew Fierman, head of national security intelligence at Chainalysis, said he could not speak to the likelihood of such a seizure. He did, however, explain what gaining control of assets might look like.
A freezing of assets could occur through centralized services, he says. These services would get a court order for an exchange or an issuer like Tether or Circle who could blacklist an address. The second method is through physical seizure. The U.S. could get control of wallets, devices, and keys through compelled cooperation.
For now, there is unlikely to be a full and accurate account of Venezuela’s Bitcoin holdings until the political situation in the country becomes more stable.
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Ben McKenzie will receive a Career Achievement Award at the St. Augustine Film Festival Jan. 10 prior to the screening of his documentary, “Everyone is Lying to You for Money.”
The former star of “The OC” wrote, directed and produced the film while writing his New York Times bestseller “Easy Money,” which spotlights cryptocurrency as a large-scale scam.
Working in collaboration with journalist Jacob Silverman, the film includes interviews with currently jailed cryptocurrency industry leaders and celebrities now facing trials for misleading the public on the value of cryptocurrencies as virtual money.
Sporting degrees in economics and political science from the University of Virginia, McKensie traveled to El Salvador – also known as Bitcoin city – and London’s banking district to showcase fraud perpetrated by Alex Mashinsky, the founder and CEO of Celsius Network, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for one count of commodities fraud and one count of securities fraud.
New York prosecutors accused Mashinsky with deceiving clients about the company’s finances and manipulating the price of Celsius’ token, which caused billions of dollars in losses.
The movie also includes interviews with individuals who were part of the scam before it collapsed, McKensie’s testimony before Congress following the arrest of Sam Bankman-Fried and his trip to El Salvador.
“I turned the cameras on to document the difference between the marketing campaign and the reality of what was happening on the ground,” he told the St. Augustine Record. “Cryptocurrency was perpetuated by a very small number of people who made a lot of money in an industry rife with fraud, corruption and criminal activity.”
McKensie underscored the film as an unusual comedy that he’s deeply proud of.
“The film highlights the idea of avoiding intermediaries as appealing, but creating a currency that bypasses a banking system would never work,” he said. “The idea of investing in this obtuse thing that was hard to understand evolved/metastasized to exhibit the worst parts of our current system.”
McKensie described the “command tactic” of the get rich scheme as a con man tactic that lured people in as Bitcoin emerged during the wake of a financial crisis.
Bankman-Fried, the founder of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange, was eventually convicted of wire, securities and commodities fraud along with money laundering and conspiracy and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
McKensie’s involvement was born and bred from COVID, “when I had time on my hands to check the financial markets.”
“I’m not an economist, but I love theory and behavioral economics,” he said. “I especially love the writings of the Nobel Prize winning economist Robert Schiller, who talks about things that were applicable to crypto that naturally occur in Ponzi schemes.”
Convinced that no one was monitoring the “price of a speculative asset rising far beyond what it was worth in terms of practical use in the real world,” McKensie turned to social media as a platform to show that “crypto was getting out of hand.”
Posts connected him to Silverman and together they worked on reporting on the ill-fated concept. It didn’t take long before a book proposal landed on his desk.
“Then it was off to the races,” he said.
“I’ve met a lot of really interesting people I never would have met if not for the book,” he said. “I’ve never done anything like this before so I’m really glad I did.”
McKensie said that Greg von Hausch, co-founder of the SAFF, was persistent in adding “Everyone is Lying to You for Money” to the festival.
While the success of the book and the film remain paramount to an actor who hedged his bets in New York because of his love of “the art,” the Texas native has a long and successful acting resume that includes stints on Broadway for “Grand Horizons,” which received a Tony nod for Best New Play, an appearance in “Junebug” with Amy Adams and one in “88 Minutes” starring Al Pacino. Other film credits include the indie film “Johnny Got His Gun” and “Some Kind of Beautiful” with Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek.
Other film credits include “Decoding Annie Parker” opposite Helen Hunt and a starring role in the short film “The Eight Per Cent of the 2009” shown in New York’s Tribeca Film Festival.
In 2009, he returned to series television in “Southland,” portraying a patrol officer in Los Angeles. McKensie also starred as Detective James Gordon in the series “Gotham,” detailing Gordon’s rise in Gotham City before Batman’s appearance.
McKensie made his directorial debut in Season 3 of “Gotham” where he met his then co-star and now wife, Morena Baccarin, who is the mother to his two children. The family resides in New York.
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