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litecoin founder Charlie Lee on Wednesday announced that he has "sold and donated" all his LTC (litecoins).

Started only in December last year by American engineer Billy Markus and Australian marketing professional Jackson Palmer, Dogecoin currently stands at a value of $0.0014 per .

The newest sensation in digital market, Ripple is the name for a digital currency (XRP) and is also an open payment network under which currency is transferred. It is used as a real-time gross settlement that is transferred from one bank to another on a ‘real time’ and on a ‘gross’ basis. This formed by the Ripple company and is also known as the Ripple Transaction Protocol (RTXP) or Ripple protocol.

Altcoins, or alternate cryptocurrencies, are gaining traction because buyers find them cheaper than Bitcoins, which have been reaching new highs every day. Most of the capital has gone into the top five altcoins — Ethereum (ticker symbol ETH), Ripple (XRP), Binance Coin (BNB), Stellar (XLM) and Tron (TRX).

Cryptocurrency exchange platforms in India have a huge backlog of potential users waiting to be verified for registration. Waiting periods have gone up from a week to 20 days.

An advocate looks back at how he got bitten by the ‘bitcoin bug’, the highs and lows that come with investing in crypto and the big takeaways from it

When cryptocurrency first appeared on the horizon, little did investors around the world know how one day it would emerge as a super exciting and potent investment option.

Cryptocurrencies continued to plunge through most of Friday, a day after finance minister Arun Jaitley said in his Budget speech that they are not legal tender and the government would take all measures to eliminate their use as part of the payment system. But late evening, these currencies made a sharp recovery.

Bitcoin's rebound continued on Tuesday, carrying the largest crypto currency above $8,000 for the first time in two months and leading a revival among digital currencies that have been under pressure for much of the year.

In India, the cryptocurrency craze is not only limited to cities, but has even reached Tier 2 and 3 towns. As of today, there are more than 1.5 crore Indians holding over Rs 1,500 crore worth of cryptocurrencies.

Many investors in crypto hedge funds are either high net worth individuals (54%) or family offices (30%), showed data from PwC’s Annual Global Crypto Hedge Fund Report 2021.