So far this year, Bitcoin seems to oscillate within a band of prices between USD $ 13,000 and USD $ 17,000, without still recovering the prices it had in mid-December, when it exceeded the USD $ 20,000 barrier. In spite of that, in South Korea, its price is still much higher than these values. Today, for example, it is over USD $ 18,000.
When it's 6:30 am in New York, the average price of Bitcoin is USD $ 14,118.60, 3.45% more than yesterday at the same time. There is a volume of transactions in the last 24 hours of USD $ 14 billion. The most used exchange is Bitfinex, followed by Binance.
For its part, Ethereum rose 1.46% and its price is USD $ 1,229.08.
A major advance was that of Ripple, which grew 17.93% between yesterday and today and is at USD $ 2.06. Of course, it is still far from its higher prices, which it achieved on January 4 when it exceeded USD 3.6. There are many operations with Ripple from the South Korean exchange Bithumb, followed by Bitcoin / Ripple exchange operations through Binance.
Other movements upwards are those of Bitcoin Cash that rose 3.22%, Cardano 6.01%, Litecoin 2.59%, IOTA 3.07%, Dash 3.75% and Monero 1.25%. of Stellar, which rose 33.64% between yesterday and today, with a price of USD $ 0.67, however it does not reach its record values of January 4 when it exceeded USD $ 0.85.
Another currency that had a significant increase between Thursday and today is EOS. Its price is 15.09 US dollars, 43.44% more than yesterday at the same time. It's your record value so far. Although it is less known, many investors have gone to acquire it today and there are operations in the last 24 hours for USD $ 1.8 billion. Where do you think 60% of these operations come from? Well, South Korea, of course.