How to Use CoinMarketCap’s New Bitcoin Price Checker App
iOS: CoinMarketCap cryptocurrency tracker is one of the most popular websites for both blockchain enthusiasts and people with a financial interest. The site is celebrating its fifth birthday today by launching a (long-overdue) iPhone app that helps you check prices of bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies on the go.
For casual bitcoin watchers, this simple app is the perfect way to get an idea of ​​cryptocurrency fluctuations. (You can kick yourself when they skyrocket to $ 1,000 a day, and be relieved that you haven’t invested your life savings when they drop 30 percent in a week.)
While there are many other apps that allow you to check cryptocurrency prices, most of this data actually comes from CoinMarketCap . So, to get a quick insight into the market, it doesn’t hurt to go straight to the source.
However, the CoinMarketCap app is pretty simple and probably not the best option for active cryptocurrency traders. If you put your luck to these currencies, you will need a more dynamic application such as Blockfolio , which can send you alerts when a coin for which you watch , reaches a certain price. (Buy, buy, buy! Sell, sell, sell!)
Getting Started with CoinMarketCap
Once you’ve found and downloaded the app , launch it. One of the nice things about the app is that it doesn’t require you to create any account to view cryptocurrency prices. Once you open CoinMarketCap, you will see a list of the best cryptocurrencies ranked by their overall market value. If you want to sort them differently – by name, price or price changes over the last 24 hours – just click the “Rating” button.
For more information about a specific cryptocurrency, click on it to open an expanded graph of its value for the last day, week or month. From here, you can also click on the star to add the cryptocurrency to your watchlist. Then click the “All” button in the upper right corner and select “Watchlist” to remove from sight everything except the coins you really need – all the ones that make you a millionaire, right?