Daily Times

The cryptocurrency market continued with a bearish trend on Friday, with market capitalisation shedding 1.8 percent to reach $2.12 trillion.

As of 1130 hours GMT, the largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin’s price went down by 1.41 percent to $42,269. With this decrease in price, the market capitalisation of the biggest crypto has reached $799.8 billion.

Bitcoin has seen a sharp decline as protests continue in Kazakhstan, the world’s second-largest mining hub, where the internet was shut down, forcing local miners to switch off their equipment. Bitcoin slumped to the lowest level since its December flash crash, as growing expectations of rising borrowing rates weighs on some of the best performing assets over the past few years.

Ether, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalisation, tumbled by 3.81 percent to reach $3,229. With this decrease in price, the market capitalisation of ETH has reached $380 billion. This has been the lowest price of Ether since October 13. On the other hand, XRP price went up by 1.21 percent to reach $0.760. The market capitalisation of XRP stands at $76 billion with this increase.

Similarly, Cardano (ADA) price edged up by 1.72 percent to hit $1.23. Its market capitalisation has reached $40.5 billion with this increase.

However, Dogecoin (DOGE) price remained on the downward slide and shed 0.36 percent to reach $0.156. With this decrease in price, the market capitalisation of DOGE has reached $20.7 billion.