topping litecoin becoming the sixth largest based on market cap.ple, bitcoin cash and eos remain the other top koins all while bitcoin sees massive gains this week rallying on 20% for its best week since early april. well, all of this bullish news makes me wish our crypto -- was here what's that sound? is that mr. b.k.'s neighborhood trolley. even though he isn't here today, he sent us a message about stellar. and here it comes. he says stellar is both a currency and a platform so it makes sense that it is more valuable than late coin. the partnership with ibm is very interesting and it could add even more value as we build more products on the seller's platform it's a beautiful day in mr. b.k.'s neighborhood. tim, what question would you have for b.q. if you were here >> i would say b.k., what is the impact of the currency war on bitcoin and its rally this week. is that b.k.'s neighborhood trolley again? he might be sending us another message. >> the character of the market appears to have changed for most of this year, every rally was met with ag

cryptocurrencies beyond what it currently offers on its platform like bitcoin, bitcoin cash and litecoine rollout of these assets will require additional exploratory work and it's not guaranteed they will be listed for trading. still, it's a sign that the industry is starting to see value in other cryptocurrencies and the coin base is trying to appeal to investors that are looking to diversify their holdings and it has a strategy other crypto exchanges like gemini are also using. back to you. >> seema modi. you may not be familiar with some of these coins and questions, so we're getting none other than the crypto baller p.k. to brieak them down for us >> a couple of here that they're talking about exploring an remember there were issues that potentially people saw them ahead of time and that's why they're trying to get out ahead of it and say this is what we're looking at cardano, number one, that is something similar to an, theer yum, they have a live working network and they have a road map, so that's important and that's what the sec said was important. so it's not a security basic at

. >> bitcoin versus litecoin >> we'll take bitcoin again. no offense to charlie. lee, but i would rather own bitcoin. >> and we'll end this with ripple versus bitcoin cash i'd pick bitcoin cash over ripple because i think in some ways bitcoin cash has unique features relative to ripple and there are merits to owning it. >> want to do a bonus round. >> bitcoin or u.s. equities between now and the end of the year >> between now and year end we think it can do single-digit gains and i think bitcoin can easily do well beyond that between now and year end so i would rather own bitcoin, but of course, it is riskier so it's different than owning an, quit. >> tom, thank you. despite your jet lag for joining us tom lee of fund strap. >> i tend to agree with karen that i have trouble with the cost of mining because i don't think it's commodity i don't think people really -- i see that target moving around. i think bitcoin to me is probably range bound and i think we're waiting for an event of some kind that will be the catalyst there's no question that people want to come i

on friday we reported coinbase was considering adding to its platform, bitcoin cash, ethereum and litecoineir platform these coins all jumped and even bitcoin was up 5% that day so bitcoin volume is only modestly higher and then only in the last few days and futures volumes haven't changed too much so don't get too excited yet there's one other possible positive here. regulatory, on tuesday, fed chair jerome powell said the fed was not thinking of creating a crepto currency. sounds like a negative the purists are seeing this, they don't want government intervention or oversight. if the fed gets into crypto business there is potential for much more regulation in their minds, the purists' mind, this would be a negative so powell saying this could be viewed as a mild positive for prices, i think is an interesting idea if you accept the fact that more regulation would be negative for cryptos. melissa, back to you >> bob, thanks bob pisani at the new york stock exchange let's trade it when we were speaking to barry. >> the amazing thing is crypto had no reaction. >> that was the best scenario.

adds new service >> robinhood, the mobile stock trading app has added two new cryptocurrencies, litecoin and bitcoin cash have been added they join bitcoin and ethereum robinhood launched these trading services back in february. he says the crypto platform is available in 17 u.s. states, but they expect it to be available in all of the states by the end of 2018. so there's certainly no shortage of these platforms to trade cryptocurrencies and you know that, and there's the largest u.s.-based platform and there are dozens of others, and vitt rex both in and out of the united states. any difference between these platforms in to me, the most important thing today is robinhood offers a no-fee trading service and that's quite remarkable coin base could charge 4% and many of the other exchanges are 25 to 50 bases points and robinhood seems to be hoping that they'll get more customers in the door for other kind of trades and they're likely selling those orders, by the way to market makers and collecting some kind of fee and whether robinhood appeals to more casual traders and can pull in seriou