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Cryptocurrencies Price Prediction: Bitcoin, Cryptos & XRP – American Wrap 01 April

Bitcoin price dives below $27,000 ahead of US Nonfarm Payrolls May report

Crypto market participants are closely watching the US Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) report that is due to be released by the Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS) on Friday. Market expectations anticipates 190,000 jobs were likely added in May.
Bitcoin/US dollar one-day price chart
The crypto market has lost another 0.8% of its capitalisation in the last 24 hours, rolling back to $1,128, where it was last Friday. Bitcoin is down 1.4%, Ether is down 0.8%, and the top altcoins are mostly down, except for Litecoin, which is up 3%.
 

Ripple, the cross-border payment remittance giant, has unlocked a total of 1 billion XRP tokens from escrow on Thursday. This unlock is a part of the scheduled monthly distribution strategy of the XRP token. 

XRP/USDT one-day price chart

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