Bitcoin Surpasses $71000: There was a surge in Bitcoin and Ether prices on Tuesday after the US Securities and Exchange Commission asked exchanges that want to trade ether ETFs to update regulatory filings. Bitcoin reached $71,957 and ether reached $3,720.80, the high levels last seen on April 9.
In a 40-day trading session, Bitcoin jumped more than 6 per cent on international exchanges after the bulls broke $70,000 pretty easily only to reach the resistance level of $72,000. This jump, however, was led by ETH which jumped more than 15 percent as ETH gains exceeded BTC by distance after a really long time,” CoinSwitch Markets Desk said in a statement.
As of 12:42 pm on Tuesday, Bitcoin (BTC) was trading at $71,334.89, a 6.5% increase over the previous day.
Bitcoin has a market cap of $1,405.39 billion and a 24-hour trading volume of $52.06 billion.
Binance’s real-time data shows Bitcoin up nearly 6.45 percent in the last 24 hours with a circulating supply of 19.70 million.
With a current market cap of $442.66 billion, Ethereum (ETH) is trading at $3,684.90. The 24-hour trading volume is $36.30 billion.
With a circulating supply of 120.13 million, Ethereum is up 19.30 percent in the last 24 hours.
In contrast to Bitcoin, Ether is the coin linked to the Ethereum blockchain network, which is the world’s largest and most well-known cryptocurrency.
“The major reason for ETH’s rise could be attributed to the Ethereum ETF deadline, which is May 23. While many analysts were predicting that it is highly unlikely for an ETH ETF to be approved, the probability of an ETF approval suddenly jumped from 25 per cent to 75 per cent by Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas. This happened as SEC asked aspiring ether ETF exchanges to update 19b-4 filings ahead of the May 23 deadline,” as per CoinSwitch Markets Desk.
The SEC appears to be moving in a positive direction, which is what triggered the market, however it is unlikely the ETH ETF will be approved this week.
According to CoinSwitch, other layer-2 protocols built on top of Ethereum have gained against USDT as well, with ARB and OP leading the pack with gains of over 18%.
Having hit a record high of $73,803.25 in March, Bitcoin is now higher by over 82 percent from last January’s low of $38,505.
This year, spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds were approved and launched in the US, rekindling the excitement that died away after the “crypto winter” of 2022.
A cut in interest rates by the US Federal Reserve and the launch of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have fueled the growth of the world’s largest cryptocurrency.
In order to avoid risks associated with owning crypto with an exchange, as in the case of FTX, investors can use a locally stored software wallet or hardware wallet to access their holdings. Cryptocurrencies are created on a decentralized digital ledger called blockchain.
Investors forgetting their intricate passwords is the most common reason for losing access to their crypto wallets, but other causes include failures of two-factor authentication devices, unexpected exchange shutdowns, and cyberattacks.
The wallet provider offers a set of randomly generated words, called “seed phrases”, for additional security. If investors lose the passwords and phrases, their wallets are no longer accessible.
Password recovery services firms are seeing an increase in requests, according to Reuters.
Nvidia’s graphics processing unit cards were used by a Swiss firm to run artificial intelligence models to access stranded wallets in the first quarter, up tenfold from a year earlier.
The number of requests to unlock wallets spikes whenever the price changes dramatically, according to Reuters, citing an anonymous top executive at the firm.
As bitcoin prices reached an all-time high in early March, ReWallet, a Germany-based wallet recovery service provider, saw a 334% jump in requests.
As of March 13, around 20% of the total 19 million bitcoins in circulation are likely inactive and worth around $237 billion.
As of mid-April, Wallet Recovery Services has seen a 30% increase in requests.
A volcano-fueled geothermal power plant in El Salvador has mined nearly 474 bitcoins since 2021, bringing the government’s total bitcoin portfolio to nearly $354 million.
Government coffers now contain 5,750 bitcoins, according to the country’s Bitcoin Office.
As of September 20, 2021, 473.5 bitcoins worth about $29 million were added, powered by geothermal energy produced by the imposing Tecapa volcano, which has been touted as a green way of accumulating the cryptocurrency that is not regulated by a government.
Along with the U.S. dollar, which it adopted two decades earlier, El Salvador adopted bitcoin as legal tender in 2021.
As a result of its embrace of bitcoin, Nayib’s government has been harshly criticized, including by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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