Bitcoin Price Hits $500, a 50x Increase in Just 12 Months
The price of bitcoin reached $900 on Mt. Gox at around 01:15 GMT, with the highest price recorded on BTC China being 6,989 CNY ($1,147) at around 01:00 GMT. The CoinDesk BPI reached $781 at 01:13 GMT. The price has now dropped, though, with BTC China showing 4,000 CNY, Mt. Gox showing $670 and the CoinDesk BPI showing $575. UPDATE (18th November, 22:45 GMT): the price of bitcoin reached $750 on Mt. Gox within the last hour-and-a-half. The highest the price reached according to the CoinDesk BPI was $636 at 21:28. This price increase coincided with the Senate hearing about bitcoin, in which....
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The price of bitcoin surpassed the $450 mark today for the first time this year. According to CoinDesk's USD Bitcoin Price Index (BPI), bitcoin opened the day at $400.71 before increasing 12.5% to $450.60 at 10:49am (UTC). It has since increased to $452.17 at press time. Today's peak price marks another yearly high for the digital currency, which passed the $400 mark for the first time since November 2014 just yesterday. In the last month, the price of bitcoin has increased by 88.5%, having closed on $238.69 on 4th October. Bitcoin's performance in the last three months have seen its value....
The price of bitcoin reached $300 today on the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (BPI) for the first time in over three months, continuing a steady climb since mid-September. The last time the bitcoin price surpassed $300 was on 13th July, when the price reached a high of $310.09, but closed on $290.88. Today, the price exceeded this marker at around 02:30 UTC before continuing to rise to $301.96, but falling to $299.71 at the time of press. While the price has increased 30.3% since the beginning of September, it is still considerably lower than it was throughout the same period of 2014.....
Ethereum value has taken some hits in the past few months as the coin has since significant losses in the price after the digital asset had hit its all-time high back in May. The price of ethereum had gone as high a $4,300, but the price has since crashed over 50% since then and now sits at less than $2,000 at the time of this writing. Notwithstanding, crypto analyst and trader Kaleo predicts that the price of ETH is set to grow immensely in the next 12 months. The crypto analyst looks through movements of ethereum from back in 2017 and predicts that based on this, the digital asset is....