📈 30 Second Cryptocurrency Price Summary Current Bitcoin Price: $9,476 Bitcoin price has once again found itself in a tight range over the last 24 hours, sticking very closely to the $9,500 mark today. Top-20 altcoins have also remained very still, as Ethereum remains almost unchanged, XRP gains 1%, and Crypto.com Coin is the biggest mover with a rise of only 2%. Top Stories for June 17, 2020 🔥 Senegalese-American singer Akon has secured a $6 billion contract with KE International to build his cryptocurrency-based Akon City. The city is a 10-year project, which will eventually integrate businesses to run using Akon's very own AKOIN cryptocurrency. It will also run completely on renewable energy, making it just the second LEED (Leader in Energy and Environmental Design) certified city in Africa. The debt management office of the Thailand finance ministry is reported to be issuing savings bonds to the public via a blockchain platform. It has been stated that blockchain has enabled a low price to be set for the bonds, enabling wider participation in their purchase. 200 million Baht of bonds (worth USD$6.5 million) will be issued via the system. The co-founder of 2017 ICO project Centra Tech has pleaded guilty today to part in a fraud scheme, hit with charges including securities and wire fraud. The ICO was promoted by notable celebrities Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled. Both celebrities settled charges relating to the scheme in 2018, after failing to disclose the payments they received for their promotion of the token sale. | 