Bitcoin’s 2017 year-end snapshot showed $14,156 as XRP ranked second
The December 31 market record captured bitcoin’s extraordinary rise, a reshuffled crypto hierarchy and the arrival of regulated U.S. futures.
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3 source-dated archive files currently reconstruct the cryptocurrency record for 2017. Each article displays its historical event date and separate actual publication time.
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XRP’s December 30 snapshot put it $14.3 billion ahead of ether
CoinMarketCap ranked XRP as the second-largest crypto asset after bitcoin, but supply definitions and fragmented trading made the headline valuation less definitive than it appeared.
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India’s Finance Ministry sharpened its cryptocurrency warning
The December 29, 2017 advisory compared cryptocurrency bubble risk with Ponzi schemes while stopping short of banning trading or possession.