📈 30 Second Cryptocurrency Price Summary Current Bitcoin Price: $34,682 Bitcoin price has fallen almost 4% over the last 24 hours, following former Fed chair Janet Yellen's remarks on cryptocurrency being used to financing terrorism. Top-20 altcoins aren't looking too sharp either, as Ethereum falls 5%, XRP drops 6% and Polkadot corrects over 11%. Top Stories for January 20, 2021 🔥 The privacy-focused Brave browser has become the first internet browser to add support for InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a decentralized file storage and sharing system. Brave users will be able to use a gateway or full IPFS node to access content directly from the IPFS network, using ipfs:// addresses. Former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen has labelled cryptocurrencies as "a particular concern" for terrorist financing at a Senate Finance Committee hearing yesterday. Yellen warned of emerging tools for terrorist financing, saying that the US needs to examine ways to prevent their use for terrorism and money laundering. Decentralized derivatives trading platform Perpetual Protocol has become the sixth-largest decentralized exchange (DEX), just one month after its release. Perpetual Protocol runs on xDai, a layer-2 scaling solution on Ethereum - facilitating almost 180,000 transactions to date for a total of just $183 in fees. |