Top stories in the Crypto Roundup:
- Security issues discovered in various Bitcoin Lightning Network projects: Report
- WSJ: a16z hosted a “full-day, private conference in San Francisco” to highlight to multiple regulatory agencies the potential of cryptocurrency and blockchain.
- Brazilian payment-processing giant Cielo starts supporting bitcoin and other cryptocurrency purchases.
For the first time this year, the monthly BTC/USD candle closed in the red for the second consecutive occasion over the weekend. On the lower timeframes, BTC/USD last night returned above the 100-day exponential moving average (EMA) after last week having fallen under it for the first time in roughly five months.
At the time of writing, bitcoin (BTC) is trading at $9,793.5 (+1.64%) with daily trusted volumes of $2.00 bn. As for ether (ETH) it is trading at $171.5 (–0.67%) with daily trusted volumes of $159.18 mn. The MVIS CryptoCompare Digital Assets 10 Index is currently tracking at 3,073.1 (+1.16%).