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Bitcoin Tops $11.3K to Hit Fresh 2019 Highs
Bitcoin has broken yet another 2019 record, reaching as high as $11,284, before conceding to a short-term period of profit taking.
Updated Sep 13, 2021, 9:21 a.m. Published Jun 24, 2019, 1:22 a.m.
Bitcoin has set a new price high for 2019, reaching as high as $11,304 today before conceding a short-term period of profit taking.
At 21:00 UTC on June 23, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization shot upwards on the daily chart, cementing a new high beyond June 22's peak of $11,215. The move to another 2019 high comes after bitcoin's price dropped to as low as $10,416 on June 23 before another surge of buying pressure pushed prices back above $10,750 within the same day.
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From then BTC bolstered 6 percent, rising above $11,000 at around 19:00 UTC on Sunday evening and then reaching over $11,300 two hours later. It’s currently changing hands at $10,768 as per CoinDesk’s price data.
BTC's 2019 bull run has already started off with a bang in recent weeks, a likely a combination of traders buying into their own fear-of-missing-out (FOMO) as well as institutions chasing the tail end announcement of Facebook's project Libra.
However, large levels of volume failed to accompany the rally, beginning at 97.6 billion traded over a 24-hour period and continued to decrease to as low as 67.5 billion by days end, meaning that the move was unsupported and a small sell-off from that point out, was definite.
Its “Real 10” volume – a metric that takes into account trading volume from exchanges reporting honest volume figures as identified in a report by Bitwise Asset Management – currently stands at $46.17 billion, a large difference, according to Messari.io.
Meanwhile, the rest of the market remains relatively flat today, with but a few in the top 20 posting gains. Cadano and UNUS SED LEO (LEO) are the only two in the green within the top 20 at CoinMarketCap and are both posting 0.4-2.4 percent growth, respectively, over a 24-hour period.
In addition, the total market capitalization rose to a high of $331.8 billion, its highest point since July 31, 2018, while the market capitalization for altcoins is down $3.8 billion over a 24-hour period pointing to a preference in holding BTC above all else amongst the trading elite.
Disclosure: The author holds no cryptocurrency at the time of writing.
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