Not exact matches
Overall, the cryptocurrency market seems to be continuing the trend that its sustained for the last two weeks where Bitcoin is the biggest consistent gainer, acquiring more Market
Dominance (around 58 %
as of writing this article) and setting new all - time high price records while
altcoins languish in the face of the upcoming hard fork.
As CCN reported yesterday, the bitcoin
dominance index has now reached an all - time low with the combined market cap of the top four
altcoins — ripple, ethereum, bitcoin cash, and cardano — now surpassing that of bitcoin.
Ethereum was frequently touted
as the
altcoin most likely supersede bitcoin's
dominance throughout 2017, with ETH's market
dominance peaking at 33.9 % in June — at a time when bitcoin's
dominance was just 39.2 %.
Bitcoin experts including BitGo engineer Jameson Lopp also suggested that investors and traders should consider basing off the
dominance index of Bitcoin on the global M1 supply against currencies such
as the USD, instead of
altcoins in the cryptocurrency market.
There has been a slip back on a lot of the
altcoins, while Bitcoin has remained steady, but even with that
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altcoin dive, the market has...
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Bitcoin has fallen from above $ 11k to around $ 8k while
altcoins have bled even worse
as Bitcoin
dominance rises.
This
dominance shift has followed massive price increases by
altcoins such
as Ripple, Ether, and Stellar,
as well
as lesser - known Tron, all of which have posted more than 20 percent gains over the past week.
Altcoins have also lost significant market share, allowing Bitcoin
dominance to rise
as high
as 45 percent in recent days.
Although, bitcoin
dominance is around 52 percent of the aggregated total of all cryptocurrencies, and this is due to a few
altcoins gaining steam
as well.
The market cap of
altcoins is also at an all - time high
as Bitcoin's
dominance continues to diminish.
Along with the price swings, Colas sees bitcoin's market share go down throughout the year,
as altcoins are set to further reduce its
dominance.
The
dominance of the four and eight largest cryptocurrencies
as of 03:00 UTC on March 25, 2018, equaled 72.4 % and 79.4 %, respectively, with bitcoin
dominance increasing to 44.2 % (see Table 1.1), i.e. one can conclude that
altcoins have depreciated more significantly since the beginning of March than the leader of the cryptocurrency market.