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Crypto Markets Showing Signs of Recovery, Bitcoin Hovers Around $8,200

The cryptocurrency markets are showing signs of recovery, with Bitcoin’s price hovering around the $8,200 mark.

Monday, Sept. 30 — Bitcoin (BTC), together with most altcoins, has been trading relatively flat in the last 72 hours, but the overall crypto market seems to be ready to turn around.

Cryptocurrency market daily overview. Source: Coin360

Bitcoin has not yet been able to recover from Tuesday’s double-digit losses, but the coin is showing signs that a recovery phase might be on the horizon.

While billionaire technology investor Mark Cuban said that he would be happier owning bananas than Bitcoin, the most popular crypto coin has been trading around the $8,000 price mark for most of the day. Since hitting an intraday low of $7,835, BTC has been slowly crawling upwards to its current price point of $8,258, up by 2.62% in the last 24 hours.

Cuban claims that Bitcoin is too complicated for the average person, and that the world’s most known cryptocurrency, often called digital gold, is actually really like gold:

“I say it’s like gold. Gold is a religion: people who are really into gold — they’ll tell you that there’s a bad depression and things go to hell in a handbasket, if you own gold then you’ll be okay. No, you won’t! You carry around a gold bar — someone’s gonna hit your ass, knock you out and steal your gold bar and it’s gonna happen again and again and again. I’d rather have bananas, I can eat bananas. Crypto… Not so much.”

Bitcoin 7-day price chart. Source: Coin360

Ether (ETH) in the meanwhile, has been showing an impressive gain of nearly 5% on the day. The altcoin hit its intraday low in sync with BTC and has since found its way to $177 per coin at press time.

Ether 7-day price chart. Source: Coin360

Ripple’s XRP is showing a gain of almost 7% during the last 24 hours and is trading at around $0.256 at press time. Following today’s trend of the cryptocurrency markets, XRP might be on its way to recover from its weekly loss of 12%.

XRP’s 7-day price chart. Source: Coin360

Altcoins showing much-needed recovery

Altcoins have been reeling since Tuesday’s double-digit losses, but seemingly entered another consolidation phase during the last three days. However, today’s prices are showing green candlesticks across the board.

According to data from Coin360, the top-20 coins are all reporting gains, with Tron (TRX) taking the lead with a more than 7% increase on the day. Bitcoin SV (BSV) is also showing gains around 6% at press time.

The overall cryptocurrency market cap increased from $212 billion to $215 billion, with Bitcoin making up 68.4% of the total.

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via cointelgraph.com

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