With expectations growing that cease-fire talks between the United States and Iran could resume, the price of bitcoin was holding at $74,000 on the 15th.
According to CoinMarketCap, a global virtual asset market tracker, as of 8:20 a.m. that day, bitcoin was trading at $74,216 per coin. That was up 3.75% from a week earlier. However, it was down 0.62% from 24 hours earlier. Around 11 p.m. the previous day, it rose to $75,000 but fell immediately.
Around the same time, ether stood at $2,321. It was up 3.29% from a week earlier but down 1.93% from 24 hours earlier.
Elsewhere, BNB was $614.46, down 0.32% from 24 hours earlier; XRP was $1.36, down 1.28%; and Solana was $83.3, down 2.99%.
Earlier, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested the possibility that cease-fire talks with Iran could resume within two days. In an interview with the New York Post, he praised Asim Munir, Pakistan's army chief of staff, who played a major role in sealing the cease-fire talks on the 11th–12th.