Tether is the king of cryptocurrencies
The token has a higher daily and monthly trading volume than bitcoin and is the world’s most used stablecoin
01 October 2019 - 16:20
Portland — What is the world’s most widely used cryptocurrency? If you think it is bitcoin, which accounts for about 70% of all the digital-asset world’s market value, you’re probably wrong.
While concrete figures on trading volumes are hard to come by in this often murky corner of finance, data from CoinMarketCap.com show that the token with the highest daily and monthly trading volume is Tether, whose market capitalisation is more than 30 times smaller...
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