How Are Bitcoin and Altcoins Doing: Markets Overview (January 8th) - Coin Newsletter

How are Bitcoin and altcoins doing: An overview of the markets (Jan. 8)

• Bitcoin/USDT is trading at 43,666 against the Turkish lira at 1,333,588 TL, down 0.8% at the time of writing.
• Ethereum (ETH) is down 1.6% to 2,197, BNB (BNB) is down 4.3 to 295, Ripple (XRP) is down 1.9 to 0.558, Avalanche (AVAX) is down 8.7 to 32.4, Cardano (ADA) is down 8.3 to 0.483 and Solana (SOL) is down 5.6 to $89.05.
• In the last 24-hour period, Stacks (STX) was the altcoin that rose the most with an increase of 5.2%, while Astar (ASTR) was the altcoin whose price decreased the most with a decrease of 15.4**.
• Stacks (STX) is trading at $1.68, while Astar (ASTR) is trading at $0.119.
• The dollar index (DXY) is at 102.4 with a change of 0%.
• Bitcoin's market cap is around $855 billion, while the total cryptocurrency market cap is around $1.69 trillion.
• The volume of the 24-hour cryptocurrency market is around $74 billion.
• Dollar/TL started the new week at 29.78 with an increase of **0.3%, while the Euro/TL parity started at 32.66 with an increase of **0.21%.
• In the last 24-hour period, $159 million was liquidated from the cryptocurrency market, while more than 88 thousand cryptocurrency investors were affected.
• 74.87% of the liquidated positions were long positions, with the highest number of liquidations occurring in Bitcoin (BTC).