In the past few sessions, bitcoin price faced an increase in selling pressure below USD 10,500. The BTC/USD pair even broke the USD 10,250 support level and traded close to the USD 10,000 support. On the other hand, most major altcoins started a recovery, including ethereum, ripple, BCH, litecoin, TRX and EOS. ETH/USD is trading (08:00 UTC) with a positive bias above the USD 175 and USD 180