After yesterday’s drop to levels below $42,000, bitcoin rebounded and reached around $43,000. Most altcoins are also slightly in the green on a daily scale, with BNB approaching $500 and more impressive gains from Litecoin and ATOM.
Bitcoin Touches $43K
The past several days seemed quite positive for the primary cryptocurrency. The asset had recovered from its dip below $40,000 on Monday and was increasing in value gradually.
In just a few days, it added over $4,000 in value, which saw it top $44,000 on a few occasions — most recently on Thursday.
However, this is there the landscape changed. After touching a weekly high of $44,500, the bears stepped up and pushed BTC south. This time, bitcoin dropped by over $2,500 and declined to just under $42,000 yesterday.
Since then, BTC has added around $1,000 in value and now stands at around $43,000, and its market capitalization has remained above $800 billion.
Litecoin Spikes 8%: BNB Nears $500
Ethereum went through a volatile week of its own in the past several days, which included a drop to a multi-month low beneath $3,000. After that dump, though, ETH went on the offensive and recovered $300 in days. As of now, a minor 2% increase since yesterday has pushed the second-largest crypto to above $3,300.
Binance Coin is up around 3% on the day and is close to challenging $500. Ripple, Polkadot, Avalanche, Shiba Inu, MATIC, LINK and Terra are also slightly in the green.
Litecoin (8%) is the most substantial gainer from the larger-cap alts, followed by ATOM (7%). In contrast, Dogecoin, Solana, and ADA have tapped minor losses.
The cryptocurrency market capitalization has increased by around $40 billion since yesterday and remains well above $2 trillion.
