Litecoin leads way as most big cryptocurrencies post decreases

Published: Feb. 17, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. ET

Most of the largest cryptocurrencies were down during morning trading on Friday, with Litecoin Litecoin USD seeing the biggest change, declining 2.98% to $98.61.

Six additional currencies posted drops Friday. Bitcoin Bitcoin USD declined 2.65% to $23,864.40, and Uniswap Uniswap USD declined 2.45% to $6.61.

Bitcoin Cash Bitcoin Cash USD fell…

Most of the largest cryptocurrencies were down during morning trading on Friday, with Litecoin

LTCUSD

seeing the biggest change, declining 2.98% to $98.61.

Six additional currencies posted drops Friday. Bitcoin

BTCUSD

declined 2.65% to $23,864.40, and Uniswap

UNIUSD

declined 2.45% to $6.61.

Bitcoin Cash

BCHUSD

fell 2.45% to $129.41, while Ethereum

ETHUSD

shed 1.44% to $1,657.84. Ripple

XRPUSD

declined 1.09% to 39 cents.

Dogecoin

DOGEUSD,

which posted the smallest decrease, slipped 0.65% to 9 cents

On the other hand, two cryptos posted increases, with Polkadot

DOTUSD

seeing the largest rise at 2.72% to $6.75. Cardano

ADAUSD

climbed 0.03% to 40 cents.

In crypto-related company news, shares of Coinbase Global Inc.

COIN

shed 1.28% to $64.75, while MicroStrategy Inc.

MSTR

shed 1.92% to $278.57. Riot Platforms Inc.

RIOT

shares shed 1.57% to $6.26, and shares of Marathon Digital Holdings Inc.

MARA

climbed 0.67% to $7.26.

Overstock.com Inc.

OSTK

shed 1.08% to $21.57, while Block Inc.

SQ

shed 4.54% to $75.06 and Tesla Inc.

TSLA

rose 0.45% to $202.95.

PayPal Holdings Inc.

PYPL

dropped 2.67% to $74.68, and Ebang International Holdings Inc.

EBON

shares shed 2.47% to $8.28. NVIDIA Corp.

NVDA

declined 2.30% to $214.96, and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

AMD

declined 2.55% to $78.04.

In the fund space, blockchain-focused Amplify Transformational Data Sharing ETF

BLOK

dropped 1.34% to $18.83. The Bitwise Crypto Industry Innovators ETF

BITQ,

which is focused on pure-play crypto companies, dropped 3.07% to $5.68. Grayscale Bitcoin Trust

GBTC,

which tracks the Bitcoin market price, rose 0.50% to $11.95.


Editor’s Note: This story was auto-generated by Automated Insights, an automation technology provider, using data from Dow Jones and FactSet. See our market data terms of use.