Investing.com - Cryptocurrency prices were mixed on Tuesday as markets struggled to recover from Monday’s steep decline. Meanwhile, Nasdaq began live listing two digital currency price indices from data and research company Brave New Coin.
The company's Bitcoin Liquid Index and Ethereum Liquid Index were announced earlier in the month, and will allow Nasdaq clients to view data on coin prices.
BNC is also producing an index to track XRP, the company said on its website.
“The [index] program was born out of a need for clear and transparent price discovery of liquid cryptographic assets and is a bigger need today then it was back in 2015 when we started this program”, said Fran Strajnar, CEO of BNC.
Bitcoin was down 0.25% at $3,800.00 as of 8:13 AM ET (13:13 GMT) on the Investing.com Index. The currency's battle against the headwinds of mainstream financial wisdom shows little sign of easing up, as Warren Buffett used an interview on CNBC on Monday to disparage it again.
“You can stare at it all day, and no little Bitcoins come out or anything like that. It’s a delusion, basically,” he said.
Cryptocurrencies overall were up slightly at $129 billion at the time of writing but far from the $143 billion they notched on Sunday.
Ethereum slumped 2.5% to $135.09 and XRP rose 4.7% to $0.31741 while Litecoin was at $44.938, up 0.12%.