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Block
892,341
Halving
248d 04h
Hashrate
682 EH/s
Fee
14 sat/vB
Bitcoin
BTC · USD
$64,110.00
+1.33% · 24H
+$853.19 since yesterday
24h high
$64,496
24h low
$63,246
Volume
$21.3B
Mkt cap
$1.29T

Markets, at a glance

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#AssetPrice24hMkt capVolume7d
1BitcoinBitcoin btc$64,106.00+1.20%$1.29T$21.3B
2EthereumEthereum eth$1,894.87+0.00%$228.7B$6.2B
3TetherTether usdt$0.9991+0.00%$183.0B$33.0B
4BNBBNB bnb$600.61-0.40%$80.0B$498.6M
5USDCUSDC usdc$0.9996+0.00%$71.8B$8.4B
6XRPXRP xrp$0.9945-0.60%$62.3B$863.5M

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