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📈 30 Second Price Summary
Current Bitcoin Price: $5291
The cryptocurrency market has been churning sideways over the last 24 hours. Bitcoin is up a small fraction of a percent — 0.4% — while Ethereum and XRP are down between 1.5% and 2%. Overall, the market average is at negative 0.14%.
Binance Coin is today’s top performer in the top-20, with gains of almost 12% on top of yesterday’s rally. Cardano and Tezos, which rose earlier in the week, are both down 4%.
Top Stories for 19th April 2019 🔥
👉 Coinbase opens for India and others
If you’re a European or American user, you might not believe it, but Coinbase — the major fiat on-ramp for the cryptocurrency ecosystem — hasn’t been available in a good part of the world.
Today, Coinbase opened its services to users in India, South Korea, New Zealand, and almost a dozen others. The users will be able to use Coinbase’s basic trading platform and their more advanced Coinbase Pro.
👉 Presidential candidate Yang calls for crypto clarity
Andrew Yang is the cryptocurrency advocate running for president in the 2020 elections. He’s been in the cryptocurrency space for quite some time, and has controversial ideas on political, economic, and environmental matters like universal basic income and climate change.
Yang has called for clearer cryptocurrency regulations, saying that regulations vary or don’t even exist across the states. He says as president he would push for clearer legislation in the space.
👉 Bakkt hires former Google/PayPal executive
Bakkt is the Intercontinental Exchange’s foray into the cryptocurrency world, with high profile executives from the traditional financial and tech spaces chipping in to help the crypto world mature.
The team have hired a former Google and PayPal executive, Mike Blandina, as Chief Product Officer for Bakkt.