📈 30 Second Cryptocurrency Price Summary
Current Bitcoin Price:Â $59,752
Bitcoin price spiked toward all-time highs over the weekend, breaking back above the $61,000 mark before starting Monday under the elusive $60,000 level.
Top-20 altcoins have had mixed performance over the last 24 hours, as Ethereum remains stationary, XRP falls 4% and Binance Coin soars 19%.
Top Stories for April 12, 2021 🔥
The Biden administration is currently exploring the digital yuan's potential threat to the US dollar, according to Bloomberg.
It has been reported that multiple government departments are looking deeper into the currency, whether it works around trade sanctions and its possible impact on the USD's reserve currency status.
The digital yuan - also known as DCEP - is already being rolled out, with multiple test runs already conducted.
Web traffic data from The Block has observed a drop of almost 9% over the month of March, after February's three-year high.
No month has yet topped the web traffic seen in January 2018 however, with more than 500 million visitors at the peak of the boom.
Messari have criticized Binance Smart Chain for the centralization of its validators, who they claim are hand-picked on a daily basis by Binance Chain - another Binance blockchain with a similar name.
One researcher, Wilson Withiam claims that there is an apparent pre-defined order in which the validators produce blocks, indicating meddling in the should-be decentralized system.
