Europe will not ban bitcoin mining
Bitcoin slowed down ahead of strong mid-February resistance at $45,000, which then turned the move down. The first cryptocurrency in recent days has not paid too much attention to stock indices, which rose on Wednesday. The technical picture continues to point to a break in the downtrend, although to confirm the reversal, the rate must first fix above 45K.
It must be said that bitcoin trading volumes have increased markedly in the last week. On February 28th BTC jumped by 11%, showing the highest growth in many months.
In the EU, it was previously discussed that since Bitcoin and Ethereum use the Proof-of-Work consensus mechanism, which consumes a lot of electricity and has a negative impact on the environment, it's time to ban the mining of these cryptocurrencies.
However, it was decided to abandon this idea following the new version of the bill on digital assets. Technically, Bitcoin slowed down on Wednesday after two days of active strengthening, and on Thursday morning, it rolled back to 43.1K, losing 2.2% in the last 24 hours. Ethereum is down 3.3% 0.6% in the same period. Leading altcoins from the top ten lose from 1% (Terra, XRP) to more than 5% (Avalanche).
The total capitalization of the crypto market, according to CoinMarketCap, decreased by 2.5% to $1.09 trillion. The Bitcoin Dominance Index is hovering around 43.1%. The Cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index fell 13 points to 29, once again ending up in the fear zone.
Top Cryptocurrencies with Price Predictions
| # | Crypto | Prediction | Accuracy | CVIX | Price | 24h | 7d | Market Cap | 7d price change | |
| 1 |  BTC |
Bitcoin predictions | 96% | 2 | $26 957.64 | 2.27% | 1.25% | $525 640 389 351 |  |
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| 2 |  ETH |
Ethereum predictions | 89.2% | 5 | $1 651.20 | 2.85% | 3.57% | $198 533 811 997 |  |
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| 3 |  USDT |
Tether predictions | 93.2% | 1 | $1.000031 | 0.08% | 0.01% | $83 279 163 207 |  |
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| 4 |  BNB |
Binance Coin predictions | 92% | 4 | $214.84 | 1.39% | 1.43% | $33 052 667 934 |  |
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| 5 |  XRP |
XRP predictions | 91.6% | 9 | $0.510041 | 2.38% | -0.38% | $27 191 480 431 |  |
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| 6 |  USDC |
USD Coin predictions | 93.6% | 1 | $1.000175 | 0.02% | 0.01% | $25 593 952 177 |  |
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| 7 |  STETH |
Lido stETH predictions | 95.6% | 1 | $2 941.39 | -0.40% | -3.32% | $10 258 752 564 |  |
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| 8 |  WTRX |
Wrapped TRON predictions | 86.8% | 24 | $0.088795 | 4.50% | 6.75% | $9 028 313 978 |  |
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| 9 |  ADA |
Cardano predictions | 92.4% | 6 | $0.250543 | 2.68% | 1.79% | $8 801 173 691 |  |
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| 10 |  DOGE |
Dogecoin predictions | 93.2% | 5 | $0.061482 | 1.67% | -0.22% | $8 681 310 550 |  |
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| 11 |  SOL |
Solana predictions | 88% | 20 | $20.19 | 5.11% | 2.68% | $8 334 534 611 |  |
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| 12 |  TRX |
TRON predictions | 87.2% | 22 | $0.087706 | 2.85% | 5.13% | $7 813 140 472 |  |
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| 13 |  TON |
Toncoin predictions | 58.4% | 84 | $2.21 | 2.18% | -4.32% | $7 589 175 931 |  |
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| 14 |  DAI |
Dai predictions | 94.8% | 1 | $0.999902 | 0.03% | -0.03% | $5 347 363 215 |  |
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| 15 |  DOT |
Polkadot predictions | 89.6% | 7 | $4.07 | 1.98% | 1.29% | $5 005 321 925 |  |
