Lots of selling/buying today, $37.20B worth of 24 hour volume.

https://bitcointicker.co/stamp/btc/usd/6Mth/

2024 Volume candles, ranging from 77 to 358 billion each.

https://messari.io/project/bitcoin

Bitcoin is now ranked the #7 top asset by market cap, $1.848 Trillion dollars!

https://companiesmarketcap.com/assets-by-market-cap/

Ranked by 24 hour volume

People are loving these 'stablecoins' with 103 billion in USDT volume, 10.5 billion in USDC volume and 6.8 billion in FDUSD volume, a coin which is "a transformative financial instrument issued by FD121 Limited, that combines the stability of cash reserves, with teh seamless efficiency of advanced blockchain technology". [First Digital USD Whitepaper]

If you are like me you love to read a lot, check this paper out.

"Digitalization has revolutionized money and payments systems."

https://www.nber.org/papers/w26300

"The ongoing digital revolution and the rise of large tech firms present the possibility of
a radical departure from the traditional model of monetary exchange. The structure and
technology underlying digital networks may lead to an unbundling of the separate roles
of money, creating fiercer competition among specialized currencies."

Find more fascinating papers by Markus K. Brunnermeier

Last Block: 876,074

https://bits.monospace.live/

"A total of 919.61 BTC ($85,045,252) were sent in the block with the average transaction being 0.4281 BTC ($39,590.41). Unknown earned a total reward of 3.13 BTC $289,460. The reward consisted of a base reward of 3.13 BTC $289,460 with an additional 0.0504 BTC ($4,660.96) reward paid as fees of the 2,148 transactions which were included in the block."

https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc/876074

If you can't handle the -12% you don't get the +53%

https://bitcointicker.co/stamp/btc/usd/6Mth/

The time is now 1:59pm MST on Dec 23 2024

https://coinmarkets.today/

LINK and NEAR are up +5% on BTC rising 0.47% this past hour.

https://bitcointicker.co/stamp/btc/usd/1hr/

$93,336 USD at 2:03pm

Would you rather have Stablecoins, or BTC?