DigiByte was trading at $0.015 and was rising by 9.72%







The cryptocurrency market was punctuated by several altcoin surges this week, with Tezos and Ontology leading the charge. The latest entrant to ride the bull wave was DigiByte, the 35th ranked cryptocurrency on CoinMarketCap. It climbed up the charts to become the biggest gainer in the top 50.

At press time, DigiByte [DGB] was trading at $0.015 and was rising by 9.72%. The cryptocurrency held a total market cap of $169.073 million with a 24-hour trade volume of $3.091 million. A majority of the trade volume was split between BiteBTC and Bittrex, two popular cryptocurrency exchanges. BiteBTC recorded DigiByte transactions worth $1.156 million, while Bittrex recorded $315,308 worth of DGB trade.





The 24-hour chart showed the cryptocurrency’s value shot up, before settling into sideways movement. DGB’s value surged from $0.0126 to $0.0144, in under an hour. It was speculated by many online that the addition of DigiByte on Magnum Wallet, and its latest release, the Magnum Notifier Bot, was what sparked the DigiByte surge. The bot is a free-to-use Telegram bot which notifies the user when the connected wallet participates in any transactions. The bot also gives DGB holders all transaction-related information.





DigiByte was also helped by its community starting a new online campaign requesting Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong to add DGB to its fold. Frederik Bf67, a Twitter user, and a DigiByte fan tweeted:





“Hello Brian, I would love to see @coinbase adding @DigiByteCoin to its platform. You know #DGB has been around for a long time and has proven itself over time to be a highly secure and fast blockchain with excellent use cases supported by thousands of people on every continent.”





Another DigiByte fan, Mark Brown replied on the same thread saying,





“Tell that to @barrysilbert, he’s the one to talk to brother 😏





@brian_armstrong and @AsiffHirji can do so much. It’s out of their hands.





I’ve even helped pass along a petition and nothing. I’ve gotten over 10k signatures to have #dgb added to #coinbase and nothing.”



