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📈 30 Second Cryptocurrency Price Summary
Current Bitcoin Price: $23,015
Bitcoin price is hovering around the $23,000 mark today, finding footing very close to its new all-time high.
Top-20 altcoins have performed well again over the last 24 hours, as Ethereum rises 2%, XRP gains 7%, and Litecoin leads the way with an 18% jump.
Top Stories for December 18, 2020 🔥
👉 US Treasury Considering New Reporting Rule For Self-Hosted Wallets
A new rule is being considered by the US Treasury, focusing on transaction reporting for self-hosted wallets.
The rule would force money service businesses to file currency transaction reports in the case that a client conducts a cryptocurrency transaction to or from a self-hosted wallet involving their service, over $10,000 in a single day.
Within the cryptocurrency community, self-hosted wallets are more commonly referred to as non-custodial wallets.
👉 Ethereum 2.0 Becomes Fourth-Largest Staking Network in Crypto
Ethereum 2.0 his already ranking as the fourth-largest staking network in cryptocurrency, as measured by total value locked (TVL).
Almost $1 billion worth of Ether (ETH) has been staked in the network already, about six weeks after the deposit contract going live.
👉 DeFi And Governance Covered By CTFC’s Latest Primer
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) released a new digital assets primer this week, in an effort to educate readers on the cryptocurrency space.
Decentralized finance (DeFi) and cryptocurrency governance were both mentioned in the document, which is the CFTC’s first digital asset primer in two years.