It was another week of fairly stable prices for leading cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin (BTC) grew 3% over the seven days and started Saturday trading at $26,564, while Ethereum (ETH) remains more or less at the same price it was seven days ago at $1,636.
Ethereum’s growth may have been hobbled by reports that its supply recently turned inflationary (meaning more Ether is issued than burned) in one of few such periods since the Merge in September 2022. Last week, Ethereum’s supply increased by 4,092 ETH tokens worth around $6.6 million, per Ultrasound.money data.
The leading cryptocurrencies traded sideways all week, even after the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) on Wednesday revealed that inflation had risen a fraction above economists’ projections
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Author: Tim Hakki
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