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Extreme Activity Marks Today’s Block Tribune Volatility Index
The digital currency markets have been active today, as the biggest digital currencies have experienced, on average, relatively large fluctuations in price over the past 24 hours.
A notable low volatility outlier was Ripple, which traded between $0.20 and $0.22 today, with an average price of $0.21.
Our proprietary Block Tribune Volatility Index is a measure of daily price variability compared with variability over the prior 30 days. 50 indicates an average day. Greater scores indicate a wider range of trade prices while lesser scores indicate a relatively flat trading period.
The data below was compiled on a per-currency basis using reports from the exchanges that saw 1% or more of the total trade volume for that currency. It is as of 1:00 pm US Eastern Time and includes digital currencies with the greatest trading volume, as measured in U.S. Dollars.
| Currency | Volatility Index | Today’s Average Price | Today’s Volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bitcoin | 67.0 | $7,323.84 | $3,305,690,000 |
| BitConnect | 67.0 | $278.76 | $22,000,000 |
| Dash | 60.4 | $298.39 | $82,019,600 |
| NEO | 60.2 | $26.65 | $61,858,800 |
| Qtum | 58.2 | $11.38 | $182,671,000 |
| EOS | 52.3 | $1.08 | $32,594,600 |
| Bitcoin Cash | 51.6 | $629.47 | $546,691,000 |
| Zcash | 50.9 | $242.55 | $62,080,900 |
| Monero | 50.8 | $101.57 | $58,789,600 |
| Ethereum Classic | 49.5 | $14.06 | $134,312,000 |
| Ethereum | 48.1 | $297.57 | $581,656,000 |
| Litecoin | 47.1 | $61.85 | $416,821,000 |
| Vertcoin | 45.8 | $3.62 | $13,280,300 |
| Ripple | 42.1 | $0.21 | $99,378,200 |
