Bitcoin Price Shows Signs of Recovery as Altcoin Market Stays Red

Published at: Aug. 15, 2019

Thursday, Aug. 15 — Bitcoin (BTC) is seeing some upward movement as Ether (ETH) and XRP continue to slump.

Market visualization. Source: Coin360

Bitcoin is trading at $10,407 at press time, representing a 0.82% price increase on the day. Bitcoin has ranged from just under $10,000 to over $12,000 this month and had most recently been on a downward streak. However, after bottoming out around $9,700 today, BTC has turned around to retake the $10,000 barrier and push beyond.

Bitcoin 7-day price chart. Source: Coin360

The number two cryptocurrency, ETH, has continued its gradual decline. Ether is currently trading at $188.32 and trending down by 1.99%. Bad news for investors in ETH and BTC alike broke earlier today, with a blockchain investment company founding partner telling the public on Twitter that a Chinese Ponzi scheme has robbed investors of $3 billion. This scam is apparently called PlusToken, and the aforementioned partner, Dovey Wan, called upon cybersecurity companies Chainalysis and PeckShield to investigate further. 

Ether 7-day price chart. Source: Coin360

XRP, the number two alt by market cap, is trading at $0.267 and trending down by 4.97% on the day at press time. As recently reported by Cointelegraph, trader Peter Brandt accused Ripple, the issuer of XRP, of price manipulation. Brandt wrote on Twitter:

“Will Ripple be able to manipulate the market to keep $XRP above .2400? A serious breakdown at this level, and .020725 is in the cards.”

Brandt does not appear to be speaking hyperbolically, as he further clarified that he does believe Ripple is quite literally manipulating XRP price. He wrote:

“I used ‘manipulate’ because it is exactly what Ripple has been doing since it introduced XRP [...] The chart pattern for many, many months has shown the distribution of XRP by Ripple – it has manipulated the price to hold support. But if support gives way Ripple will be forced to dump in a major way.”

XRP 7-day price chart. Source: Coin360

The 10th top cryptocurrency Algorand (ALGO) is also falling in price at press time. ALGO is currently trading a little over $0.699 and is trending down by over 12%. Interestingly, ALGO was scheduled to begin its listing process on the professional trading platform Coinbase Pro yesterday, which correlated with a boost in price for other tokens such as Chainlink (LINK).

The total market capitalization of the top 100 cryptocurrencies had fallen to a little over $270 billion at press time, according to Coin360.

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