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BREAKING: Bitcoin slips 0.3% on the day to $85,555.44; spot ETFs lost $89.9M in the last session.
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Cryptocurrency news, live prices and the week's market events on one page, with plain-English guides for anyone just starting out.
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Right now the total crypto market cap is $2.92 trillion (-3.1% over 24 hours), and bitcoin accounts for 58.7% of it. Prices for bitcoin, ether and other large coins come from Binance, OKX and Coinbase, with DefiLlama filling the gaps, and refresh every five minutes. Flows into US spot bitcoin and ether ETFs arrive once a day, after each US trading session closes.
New to crypto? The Start here guides explain what cryptocurrency is, what a wallet controls and how stablecoins like USDT work, in reads of a few minutes each. For more depth, the news section sorts every story by topic, the markets page lists prices for the 100 largest coins, and the calendar shows token unlocks, votes and conferences ahead.
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Cryptocurrency is digital money recorded on a blockchain, a shared ledger kept by many computers instead of a bank. Bitcoin was the first; CoinGecko now lists 21,955 active coins and tokens.
The total crypto market cap is $2.92 trillion, a -3.1% change over 24 hours, with $90.49 trillion traded in that time. Bitcoin makes up 58.7% of the total.
33 of the 100 largest coins are up over 24 hours and 57 are down. The Fear & Greed Index reads 73, in the Greed zone.
Yes. Crypto trades around the clock, weekends and holidays included, and prices here refresh every five minutes. US spot ETF flows are the exception: they come once per US trading session.
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