Bitcoin and Ethereum continued trading flat even as equities notched fresh record highs. However, Dogecoin moved higher on Thursday.
Cryptocurrency
Gains +/-
Price (Recorded at 9:30 p.m. EDT)
Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC)
+0.29%
$67,713.61
Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH)
-0.46%
$2,606.32
Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE)
+8.86%
$0.1353
What Happened: Bitcoin wiggled in a narrow range of $66,800-$67,400 for much of the day before kissing $68,000 overnight. The world’s largest cryptocurrency was up over 12% in the last week.
Dogecoin spiked over 8% in the last 24 hours, extending a bullish trajectory that has seen the world’s biggest meme coin gain around 26% over the week. Notably, on Thursday, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk referenced the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) during a town hall in Pennsylvania, where he expressed support for the GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump
Cryptocurrency liquidations exceeded $168 million in the last 24 hours, with over $121 million in upside bets getting wiped out.
Bitcoin’s Open Interest rose by just 0.53% in the last 24 hours. Additionally, more number of institutional investors and top trader accounts on Binance were shorting Bitcoin than those taking long positions on the …
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