Cryptocurrency Price Today: Crypto investors across the world were in for a relief on Friday, June 24, as most cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and Solana, extended their gains to take the market cap to green for the second consecutive days even amid general volatility. The global cryptocurrency market, on gains from major coins, saw a slight jump and stayed above the $900 million mark for another straight day even as investors remained hawkish about the asset. The global cryptocurrency market on Wednesday was standing at $928.79 billion at the time of writing this article, data showed. This was up by 3.12 per cent in the last 24 hours, it said. Meanwhile, the total cryptocurrency volume over the past 24 hours fell by 4.36 per cent to 62.87 billion at the time of writing this article.
Bitcoin, which is the world’s largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalisation, had briefly breached the $21,000 mark on Wednesday but came down later to the $20,000 mark while staying there comfortably. Bitcoin price today was standing at $20,926.33 at the time of writing this article, up slightly by 2.53 per cent in the last 24 hours.
“Bitcoin gained over 5 per cent last day to edge above the $21K level. Large investors continued to make most of this bear market with Giga-whales(entities with over 100,000 Bitcoins) accumulating an additional 16 per cent of BTC,” said the WazirX trade desk in a note to news18.com, while commenting on Bitcoin’s performance.