Analysis: Bitcoin Finally Pushes Over $4,000 As Other Cryptos Experience Growth

As of today, Saturday, March 16, most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting noteworthy gains. In our latest altcoin news, the crypto market analysis shows that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are in for a good weekend.

Bitcoin (BTC) has gone past the $4,000 price point according to the data from CoinMarketCap. Currently, Bitcoin is up by two percent during the day and is trading at $4,022 at press time. By looking in the weekly chart, the current price is two percent higher than where the price was at the start of the week which is at $3,958.

The data gathered from CoinMarketCap also shows that Bitcoin’s trading volume from yesterday, surpassed $11 billion which means that it has reached its highest value since April 25, 2018, when the price of the number one cryptocurrency was at $8,845.

Ethereum, on the other hand, is still the largest altcoin by market cap which reached about $14.9 billion. Ripple, on the contrary, has a market cap of about $13 billion at the time of writing.

Ethereum (ETH) is up by four percent over the past day and is currently trading around $141 after starting the day at a lower position at $135. On the weekly chart, the value of ETH seems to have increased by more than two percent from 138 which was the price at the start of the week.

Ripple (XRP), as the second-largest altcoin gained more than 1.2 percent over the past 24 hours and is currently trading at $0.318. By looking at the altcoin’s weekly chart analysis, you can see that the current price is up by more than a percent which is higher than $0.314, the price at the beginning of the week.

Among the top 20 cryptocurrency performers, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is experiencing some notable growth by increasing in value over 10 percent on the day of writing.

The total market cap of all cryptocurrencies combined is now reaching $140 billion which means there has also been some increase of approximately 3.7 percent higher than the value the market was at the start of the week which was $134.8 billion.