📈 30 Second Cryptocurrency Price Summary Current Bitcoin Price: $56,913 Bitcoin price has made a run at all-time highs over the last day of trading, now retreating slightly to around $57,000. Top-20 altcoins are looking a little stronger over the last 24 hours, as Ethereum rises 3%, XRP gains 2% and VeChain leads the way with a 19% jump. Top Stories for March 12, 2021 🔥 Popular cryptocurrency exchange Binance has launched Binance Pay, its payments app, in public alpha. The app is a peer-to-peer platform which allows users to send and receive payments in over 30 different cryptocurrencies, as well as supporting several fiat currencies. Merchant-based transactions are among the new features available in the alpha release, which is available to all eligible users on the Binance exchange. WisdomTree is the latest company to file for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) product, with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company is a fund management company which has been creating ETFs since 2006, and plans to list shares of the ETF on Cboe's BZX Exchange. Digital artist Mike Winklemann, also known as Beeple, has sold an NFT artwork for $69 million at Christie's auctionhouse, setting a new record for tokenized art. The sale is the latest of several multi-million dollar sums that the artist's work has sold for this year. Before October 2020, the most the artist had ever sold a print for was $100. |