[뉴욕 코인시황/마감] Bitcoin rises towards $56,000 … Binance Coin continues to surge

[뉴욕=박재형 특파원] # Major stocks continue to be strong # Bitcoin futures exceed $57,000 in April # Bitcoin market cap exceeds $1 trillion

On the 19th (local time), the cryptocurrency market ended with an increase in most of the major stocks and the number of declining stocks among small and medium-sized stocks. Nine of the top 10 stocks have risen, and 62 of the top 100 have green lights, indicating a rise.

# Continued strength in major stocks

According to CoinMarketCap, the price of bitcoin was $55,033.21 as of 4 p.m. New York time, up 6.52% from the previous 24 hours.

Ethereum 1.38%, Binance Coin 67.50%, Polkadot 11.04%, Cardano 2.50%, XRP 5.39%, Litecoin 5.32%.

At this time, the market capitalization of the cryptocurrency market was $1,684.7 billion, and the share of Bitcoin was 60.8%.

# Bitcoin futures over $57,000 in April

The Chicago Merchandise Exchange (CME) bitcoin futures price has also risen significantly. The most active February transaction rose 3100 dollars to 55,400 dollars, March 3400 up 3400 dollars to 55,670 dollars, and April 3485 dollars to 57415 dollars.

The Ethereum futures price rose by $23.25 in February to $1966.50, and in March by $21.25 to $1996.50, and April by $24.75 to $2045.50.

# Bitcoin market cap exceeded $1 trillion

Bitcoin surpassed 53,000 dollars for the first time in history before the market departed on the same day, and then reached 55,000 dollars during the market, and the market capitalization exceeded 1 trillion dollars.

Bitcoin’s market cap increased more than tenfold within a year after falling to less than $100 billion at the so-called “Black Thursday” when the bitcoin price plunged to the $3,000 mark in March last year.In the case of Amazon and Google, which ranked fourth in the world’s asset rankings based on AssetDash data, it took more than 20 years to achieve a market capitalization of $1 trillion. It has grown.

On the other hand, in the cryptocurrency market on this day, even after Binance Coin surpassed Tether and rose to third place in the market capitalization, it maintained an increase of more than 60%, and the price exceeded $320, continuing its record high.

According to You2day, regarding the strength of bitcoin, Changfeng Zhao, CEO of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has a stronger influence on the FOMO sentiment of institutional investors than the FOMO sentiment, which fears that the recent bullish bitcoin is falling behind the market. It was analyzed as being in accordance.

He expressed the view that this bitcoin rally is driven by institutional FOMO sentiment that emerges as more companies and shareholders are exposed to cryptocurrency.

Changfeng Zhao also pointed out that compared to 2017, when Bitcoin soared to $20,000, the recent bullish cycle reveals a lot more new retail and institutional investors entering the Bitcoin market.

In the US New York Stock Market, the Dow Index remained unchanged, the Nasdaq rose 0.07%, and the S&P 500 fell 0.19%.