Quick look at the market in these hours

Cryptocurrency prices fell today, Saturday, May 15, 2021, and Bitcoin lost 3% of its value.

The price of Bitcoin digital currency, "the most popular in the cryptocurrency market," was about $ 48,860 at the time of writing.

While Ethereum recorded about $ 3882, and Queen Binance recorded $ 585.41.

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As for Ethereum, it recorded about $ 3.98, while Dogecoin recorded about $ 0.518 at midday.

The Internet computer currency continued its rally, recording about $ 277.88.

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Among the most expensive digital currencies, Litecoin LTC scored about $ 313.82, down 4%.

As for the price of the Polkadot DOT, it recorded, according to Bloomberg, about $ 46.26, up more than 12%.

The price of the Uniswap UNI digital currency was about $ 39.17, down nearly half a percent.

Attack from Elon Musk

American billionaire Elon Musk has attacked the cryptocurrency again, supporting Dogecoin.

Elon Musk, founder of Tesla, an electric car maker, renewed his criticism of Bitcoin as being environmentally unsustainable, while supporting Dogecoin, saying it was still a believer in the cryptocurrency.

In his tweet on "Twitter", Thursday, Musk expressed his concern about the extensive use of coal and other carbon-intensive energy sources to generate the electricity needed to mine the cryptocurrency.

The publication of the tweet coincided with a previous post on the microblogging site "Twitter" of a scheme from the University of Cambridge indicating that Bitcoin electricity consumption has increased rapidly since the beginning of 2021.