Bitcoin’s increasing legitimacy sparks rally on exchanges

Bitcoin’s increasing legitimacy sparks rally on exchanges

Bitcoin traders were waiting to hear just the words Department of Justice representatives offered up. When the DOJ told a Senate committee that Bitcoin constitutes a “legal means of exchanges,” prices surged. One BTC commanded $744 on the Bitstamp exchange, and prices flirted with the $900 mark on Mt. Gox. Bitcoin prices have increased more than 40-fold this year. Much of that has been brought on by an increasing level of interest from China, where a liquid, unregulated currency is seen as an attractive investment by citizens who have trouble even getting their national currency across the....


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