Bitcoin Cash Rockets as Crypto Index Crawls Up—Is That Gold or Fool’s Gold?

If you ask CoinDesk to tell you how the cryptic fortunes are blowing today, sit tight—here comes the dispatch, and by thunder, it’s full of more wigs and wild swings than a Mississippi riverboat in a hurricane. 🚣‍♂️

The great CoinDesk 20 rig is currently wheezing its way up to 2780.05, which is a rousing 0.4% more than it did at tea time yesterday—so break out your dancing shoes, if 9.87 points gets you lively. Or just yawn, whichever’s easier.

Now, if you’re hunting the high-fliers among the 20, only nine bothered to climb today. That’s less than half. Mathematics courtesy of Twain’s patented lazy arithmetic. 🧮

Over in the winner’s corner, we got Bitcoin Cash (BCH) grinning like a possum with a bagful of corn—up 6.3%. Not far behind, old reliable Ethereum (ETH) shuffled out a modest 1.8% rise, which won’t buy you a steamboat ticket, but might get you a cup of river water.

Now, hold your horses—because while some folks were too busy winning, SUI (-2.6%) and HBAR (-2.1%) did their best impression of rocks dropping off the back of a paddlewheeler. Better luck next time, boys. 🥲

For those who collect trivia or leave their hats on strangers’ racks: the CoinDesk 20 covers more territory than a raft drifting from St. Louis to New Orleans and trades on so many platforms it needs a map (and probably a new pair of boots).

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2025-04-29 17:48