“If the United States were to decide we don’t want cryptocurrency to happen in the United States and tried to ban it, I’m pretty confident we couldn’t succeed in doing that because this is a global innovation. With a market cap of $178.5 billion, the largest cryptocurrency has slipped somewhat since a late-June bull market saw BTC peak just shy of $13,900, a price point that had, in turn, not been seen January of 2018.