December was again an outstanding month for cryptocurrencies!
Remember one year ago (Januari 1st, 2017) the whole cryptocurrency market capitalization was only $18 billion.

Steem surged by an amazing 200% last month! Wow! :-)

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Cryptocurrency | Price December, 1st | Price end of December | Change
--- | --- | --- | ---
Bitcoin | $9,946.76 | $13,889.06 | +39.63%
Ripple | $0.24 | $1.98 | +740.41%
Ethereum | $434.85 | $739.24 | +70%
Bitcoin Cash | $1,318.42 | $2,387.76 | +81.11%
Cardano | $0.12 | $0.71 | +496.8%
Litecoin | $85.94 | $229.40 | +166.93%
IOTA | $1.31 | $3.50 | +167.18%
NEM | $0.22 | $1.01 | +359.51%
Dash | $758.71 | $1,015.50 | +33.85%
Stellar | $0.07 | $0.35 | +380.72%
Monero | $175.18 | $330.09 | +88.43%
EOS | $2.84 | $7.68 | +170.42%
NEO | $32.67 | $74.54 | +128.16%
Qtum | $12.01 | $53.31 | +343.88%
Bitcoin Gold | $287.88 | $239.48 | -16.81%
Ethereum Classic | $26.10 | $26.06 | -0.15%
RaiBlocks | $0.00 | $0.00 | 0%
TRON | $0.00 | $0.05 | +2067.73%
BitConnect | $281.59 | $401.39 | +42.54%
Verge | $0.01 | $0.23 | +4034.65%
Lisk | $7.00 | $20.36 | +190.86%
OmiseGO | $8.06 | $19.60 | +143.18%
ICON | $1.27 | $5.17 | +307.09%
BitShares | $0.13 | $0.63 | +379.11%
Ardor | $0.30 | $1.98 | +553.9%
Zcash | $301.87 | $476.38 | +57.81%
Stratis | $5.37 | $13.87 | +158.29%
Populous | $10.74 | $40.65 | +278.49%
Tether | $1.00 | $1.02 | +2%
Waves | $5.00 | $13.61 | +172.2%
Hshare | $15.74 | $26.86 | +70.65%
Bytecoin | $0.00 | $0.01 | +262.78%
Komodo | $2.59 | $9.73 | +275.68%
Dogecoin | $0.00 | $0.01 | +337.75%
Siacoin | $0.01 | $0.03 | +455.95%
Status | $0.05 | $0.23 | +374.61%
Binance Coin | $1.99 | $8.63 | +333.67%
Augur | $25.96 | $69.21 | +166.6%
Steem | $0.99 | $2.98 | +199.59%
Golem | $0.29 | $0.85 | +196.91%
SALT | $4.36 | $12.73 | +191.97%
Ark | $3.07 | $6.98 | +127.36%
Veritaseum | $95.06 | $355.43 | +273.9%
DigiByte | $0.01 | $0.07 | +522.78%
VeChain | $0.25 | $2.31 | +806.59%
Nxt | $0.18 | $0.71 | +296.97%
Decred | $56.15 | $95.21 | +69.56%
PIVX | $3.73 | $10.36 | +177.75%
MonaCoin | $6.04 | $9.64 | +59.6%
MaidSafeCoin | $0.47 | $0.90 | +90.75%

I'm very curious what 2018 will bring! :)
The start for STEEM this year is awesome! ...+25% today.


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