Crypto Markets See Green as Bitcoin Nears $3,900 and Ethereum Touches $160

Saturday, Jan. 5 - the crypto markets are mainly in the green today, as Bitcoin moves closer to the $3,900 mark, data from Coin360 shows.

Bitcoin has shown slight growth today, up by around 3 percent and trading at about $3,899 at press time.

Over the month, Bitcoin is up almost 1 percent and almost 7 percent over the week.

Ethereum is currently trading at around $159, up more than 6 percent on the day at press time.

The second-largest cryptocurrency is seeing around 35 percent gains over the week, and 47 percent gains over the month.

The debate over whether to go forward with the implementation comes ahead of the upcoming Ethereum Constantinople hard fork.

Third-largest cryptocurrency Ripple is up over 2 percent at press time, trading at around $0.36.

Over the week, the coin has seen more than 7 percent growth, and almost 5 percent gains over the month.

Of the top ten cryptocurrencies, Litecoin and TRON are showing the biggest growth, up over 12 and 15 percent respectively.

Earlier this week, the Gemini crypto exchange - founded by the Winklevoss twins in 2014 - released a series of ads calling for better regulation of the crypto space.