The cryptocurrency markets are recording short-term losses on the daily charts with Bitcoin marking a 4.54% loss on the day with its price struggling below the $7800 level. Bitcoin started the day with a downward movement around $7,940 and went as low as $7,510 in the last few hours. The price at the time of this writing is $7,564.
Other major cryptocurrencies are also facing the bears’ pressure today as Ethereum, XRP, and LTC are seeing losses of 8.11% ($235), 7.49% ($0.367), and 5.83% $85.81) respectively.
The total market cap is $234 billion | Bitcoin’s market cap is $134 billion | BTC dominance is at 57.2%
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Despite the declines in the market, SoPay (SOP) is leading the pack with gains of more than 160% against the US dollar. Although SOP started the trading day with a low price of $0.0016, at the time of this writing the token is trading at of $0.0045 with a daily volume of $11,640,011. SoPay is a blockchain project that aims to develop a fast, secure, and easy-to-use platform for digital currencies payment.
SPEC price looks great on the daily chart despite the struggles in the last 30 days. The token is marking a massive gain of over 120% in the last 24 hours with its current price sitting at $0.000022.
The bulls have managed to push PENG coin above $0.00005 after a long period of struggling with a price of around the $0.00003 mark. This shows that investors are making about 122% gains on the day. PENG currently trades at $0.000076 with a market cap of $511,282 and daily volumes of $124,104.
LUNES is struggling to stay above $0.0040 in the past 24 hours. LUNES price was as high as $0.008 at the start of the trading session, but the coin responded to the short positions that entered the market a few hours ago. At the time of writing, LUNES is trading at $0.0042 with daily volumes of $143,727.