XRP Summer Showdown: Trading Hype Versus Price Reality, What Lies Ahead?
XRP, the fifth-largest cryptocurrency in the market, has entered a phase of macro consolidation following a significant decline that began on July 20. This consolidation has maintained the token’s price within a range of $0.4858 and $0.5505, before Ripple Labs’ legal victory against the US Securities and Exchange Commission on July 13. XRP Consolidation Continues Despite Strong Trading Activity According to insights from crypto market data provider Kaiko, XRP demonstrated extreme trade volume during the summer. XRP’s average trade volume in the previous month reached....
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By now we are all familiar with the price chart bitcoin pessimists throw at us when discussing the imminent "death" of bitcoin and the digital currency space as a whole. The classic bubble spike to above $1000 and the collapse to where we now sit just ahead of $200 does, indeed, lend credence to the suggestion that bitcoin has yet further to fall in value. However, there is a much more logical way to chart changing values over time when looking at something like digital currency - a logarithmic chart. From a logarithmic chart, somebody looking at bitcoin price versus the US dollar can gain....