Bitcoin Reverts to $29.6K as Dollar Index, Treasury Yields Shrug Off U.S. Rating Downgrade
Fitch downgraded the U.S. credit rating to AA+. A similar downgrade by S&P in early August 2011 had cratered risk assets, including bitcoin.
24H Price
The Gemini Dollar price is $1.00, a change of 0.12% over the past 24 hours as of 9:14 a.m. The recent price action in Gemini Dollar left the tokens market capitalization at $362,713,213.61. So far this year, Gemini Dollar has a change of 0.54%. Gemini Dollar is classified as a Currency under CoinDesks Digital Asset Classification Standard (DACS).
Fitch downgraded the U.S. credit rating to AA+. A similar downgrade by S&P in early August 2011 had cratered risk assets, including bitcoin.
A meme coin frenzy has ensued on Coinbase’s layer 2 blockchain even as the network is not officially live yet.
U.S dollar index's fate impacts global liquidity conditions, which, in turn, influences risk assets, including cryptocurrencies.
The dollar value of the unlock amounted to 38% of the cryptocurrency's average 30-day trading volume and had potential to push prices lower, per one analyst.
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