This week the entire cryptocurrency market capitalization surpassed US$300Bn for the first time in history. Bitcoin’s significant rise in value, alongside the wide variety of other cryptocurrencies having similar price spikes continue to reveal that digital assets are trending across the world in a big way. Also Read: North Korean Citizens Study Cryptocurrencies at Pyongyang University […]
1323 Cryptos Command a Whopping $300Bn Market Cap
Bitcoin came to the world back in January of 2009, and following its birth, other cryptocurrencies were born during the early days like litecoin, mastercoin, feathercoin, and peercoin. Now there are 1323 different cryptocurrencies that have created a significantly large market capitalization of over $300Bn. According to Coinmarketcap.com, over the past two weeks, digital asset trade volumes have been through the roof trading nearly $15-26Bn in daily trades. The financial publication Business Insider notes that metric is “higher than the 5-day average trading volume for some U.S. equity exchanges.”