Thursday, Oct. 3 — crypto markets have again failed to continue recovery trend as almost all the top 20 coins by market cap are seeing significant losses.
Market visualization. Source: Coin360
After climbing to as high as $8,414 over the past 24 hours, Bitcoin (BTC) is down 1.4% to trade at $8,115 at press time. The biggest cryptocurrency by market cap has seen some volatility over the past 7 days, hitting its intraweek high of $8,492 on Oct. 1 after dipping to as low as $7,833 on Sept. 30. Over the 7-day period, Bitcoin is down around 2%.
Bitcoin’s dominance on the market accounts for 67.6% at press time.
Bitcoin 24-hour price chart. Source: Coin360
Ether (ETH), the second cryptocurrency by market cap, is down nearly 2% over the past 24 hours to trade at $171 at press time. Still, the top altcoin is up more than 4% over the past 7 days.
Ether seven-day price chart. Source: Coin360
XRP is down the most among top 20
XRP, the third top cryptocurrency by market cap, slid by almost 3% today, trading at $0.244 at press time. XRP is still green around 0.5% over the past 7 days at press time.
Ripple seven-day price chart. Source: Coin360
While XRP is seeing the biggest losses among the top 20 coins by market cap, UNUS SED LEO (LEO) is seeing the mildest losses at press time, with its price being almost flat over the past 24 hours.
Total market cap amounts to $216 billion, significantly down from its intraday high of $223 billion.
U.S. lawmakers call for USD digital currency
Yesterday, Ohio Treasurer Robert Sprague officially announced the immediate suspension of OhioCrypto.com the website allowing businesses to pay taxes with Bitcoin. Sprague argued that the platform required an approval by the Board of Deposit before its launch. The state of Ohio was reported to become the first state to accept Bitcoin as tax payment in November 2018.
While Ohio wants to suspend the option of tax payment in Bitcoin, the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee asked the Federal Reserve if there are any plans for launching a U.S. dollar digital currency in a letter on Sept. 30. The lawmakers argued that may be crucial for the Fed to “take up the project of developing a U.S. dollar digital currency.”
U.S. manufacturing sees worst level in 10 years
Meanwhile, the United States stock market saw a significant decline yesterday after data from the Institute for Supply Management showed that U.S. manufacturing activity hit the lowest level in more than 10 years.
As of press time, the negative trend continues as Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is down 0.5%, while S&P 500 (SPX) and Nasdaq (NASDAQ) Composite slid 0.3% and 0.2%, respectively. Shares of tech giants Alphabet and Apple led Wednesday’s drop, the stocks are down 0.4% and 1% today.
In contrast, spot gold, which hit a near two-month low of $1,458.5 on Oct. 1, has edged up more than 1% today to trade at $1,514 at press time.
